San Ysidro McDonald's massacre

The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was an act of mass murder which happened at a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, on July 18, 1984. The shooter, 41-year-old James Huberty, fatally shot 21 people and wounded 19 others before being killed by a police sniper about 77 minutes after the shooting began.^[2][3]

San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
Part of mass shootings in the United States
James Huberty in 1979
Location	San Ysidro, San Diego, California, U.S.
Coordinates	32°33′21.2″N 117°03′15.0″W
Date	July 18, 1984; 40 years ago (1984-07-18) c. 4:00 – 5:17 p.m. (PDT (UTC−07:00))
Target	Staff and customers at McDonald's
Attack type	Mass shooting, mass murder
Weapons	Browning HP (9mm) Semiautomatic Uzi (9mm) Winchester 1200 pump-action shotgun (12 gauge)
Deaths	22 (including the perpetrator)
Injured	19
Perpetrator	James Huberty
Motive	Inconclusive. Racism. Possible rage, suicidal ideation, and/or revenge[1]

At the time, the massacre was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history.^[4]

Huberty was a conspiracy theorist and survivalist, who believed the Cold War was going to end the world and that president Jimmy Carter and, later, Ronald Reagan and the United States government were working against him.^[5]