In November 2001, David Gunby died of lifelong kidney disease in a Fort Worth, Texas hospital. Gunby, 58, became the 17th murder victim of Charles J. Whitman, the monster who put shooting massacres on ...

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Last August, with little fanfare, the University of Texas marked the 40th anniversary of what then was the nation's worst mass shooting. Until Monday's carnage at Virginia Tech, ...

Fifty-nine years ago today, mass murder in the form of a rampage shooting on a school campus blasted its way into the American consciousness – never to leave. This searing event also took place in the ...

A puff of smoke from sniper Charles Whitman's rifle emerges from the observation deck of the Tower at the University of Texas at Austin on Aug. 1, 1966. Whitman killed 16 people and wounded 31 before ...

AUSTIN — Houston McCoy, the police officer who helped stop Charles Whitman's deadly 1966 sniper rampage from atop the University of Texas clock tower that killed 16 people and wounded dozens more, ...

Like bank robberies in the 1920s and violent crimes fueled by the illegal drug trade in the 1980s and early 1990s, active shooter incidents have become one of the biggest challenges for 21st-century ...

A few hours before he arrived at the University of Texas tower to kill 13 people and wound 31 others. Charles Whitman strolled into an Austin hardware store and picked out several boxes of rifle ...

AUSTIN, Texas - August 1 marks 55 years since the warm Austin morning when just before noon 25-year old engineering student and former marine Charles Whitman took an elevator to the top of The ...

WHAT IT’S ABOUT On a hot August day in 1966, a former Marine named Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin lugging several rifles and roughly ...

Texas sniper Charles Whitman's story stands out for many reasons, not least of which being that it features a co-star - the University of Texas Tower from which he fired almost unimpeded for 96 ...