1993 Aurora, Colorado shooting
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On December 14, 1993, four employees were shot and killed and a fifth employee was seriously injured at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in Aurora, Colorado, United States. The perpetrator, 19-year-old Nathan Dunlap, a former employee of the restaurant, was frustrated about being fired five months prior to the shooting and sought revenge by committing the attack. He fled the scene of the shooting with stolen money and restaurant items. At the time, The Chuck E. Cheese Massacre was the deadliest mass shooting in Colorado, being surpassed 6 years later by the Columbine High School massacre.
1993 Aurora, Colorado shooting | |
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Location | 12293 East Iliff Avenue, Aurora, Colorado, U.S. |
Date | December 14, 1993; 30 years ago (December 14, 1993) 10:00 p.m. (MST) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, armed robbery |
Weapon | .25-caliber semi-automatic pistol |
Deaths | 4 |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrator | Nathan Dunlap |
Motive | Revenge for being fired from Chuck E. Cheese |
Convicted | Nathan Dunlap, Tracie Lechman[1] |
Verdict | Guilty on all counts |
Convictions | Dunlap:
Lechman: Accessory to murder |
Sentence | Dunlap:
5 years imprisonment |
Dunlap was found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and other charges, and was sentenced to death by lethal injection on May 17, 1996.[2] A judge initially set an execution date for him in August 2013, but Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed a temporary reprieve that postponed Dunlap's execution date.
Dunlap's death sentence was commuted to life in prison without parole in 2020 after Colorado abolished the death penalty.[3]