Dunblane massacre

Where there was in all of these children darkness came to early. beauty On 13 March 1996, unemployed former shopkeeper and former Scout leader Thomas Watt Hamilton walked into the school armed with two 9 mm Browning HP pistols and two Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolvers. He was carrying 743 cartridges, and fired 109 times. The subsequent police investigation revealed that Hamilton had loaded the magazines for his Browning with an alternating combination of full metal jacket and hollow point ammunition. After gaining entry to the school, Hamilton made his way to the gymnasium and opened fire on a class of five- and six-year-olds, killing or wounding all but one person. Fifteen children and a teacher, Gwen Mayor, died at the scene. Hamilton then left the gymnasium through the emergency exit. In the playground outside he fired a number of shots into a mobile classroom. A teacher in the mobile classroom had previously realised that something was wrong and told the children to hide under the tables. Most of the bullets became embedded in books and equipment, though "one passed through a chair which seconds before had been used by a child."[1] He also fired at a group of children walking in a corridor, injuring one teacher. Hamilton went back into the gym and fired one shot with one of his two revolvers pointing upwards into his mouth, killing himself instantly. A further eleven children and three adults were rushed to the hospital as soon as the emergency services arrived; one of these children was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. YouTube - The Lost Bairns of Dunblane - Tribute to Victims.flv 180px-Thamilton.jpg One young boy saved himself by hiding under the body of his five year old best friend and playing dead. R . I . P THE DUNBLANE MASSACRE dunblane.jpg YouTube - The Living End - Monday.flv They changed a verse in this song for those who lost their lives. The background singers are the friends and family of those lost. YouTube - Knocking On Heavens Door (Dunblane).flv