Luigi's Restaurant shooting

On August 6, 1993, 22-year-old Fort Bragg soldier Kenneth Junior French, armed with two shotguns and a rifle, opened fire inside a Luigi's restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, killing four people and injuring seven others. The case was featured in the 1997 documentary film Licensed to Kill.[1][2]

Luigi's Restaurant shooting
Part of mass shootings in the United States
LocationFayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.
Coordinates35.076923°N 78.953900°W / 35.076923; -78.953900
DateAugust 6, 1993 (1993-08-06) (UTC−04:00)
Attack type
Mass shooting, Hate crime
Weapons
Deaths4
Injured8 (including the perpetrator)
PerpetratorKenneth Junior French
MotiveOpposition to President Bill Clinton lifting the ban on homosexuals to serve in the military.

Shooting

At around 10 p.m., French drove to the restaurant in a black truck. Wearing shorts and a fishing vest, French exited the truck carrying a pump-action shotgun. French then entered the restaurant through the kitchen at the back of the building and then began to yell about politics and homosexuality before opening fire indiscriminately, raising the death toll to four and the injured to seven. He was then shot and wounded by a police officer who was not on duty at the time of the shooting.[3][4][5]

Victims

The victims that were killed were:

  • Wesley Scot Cover, 26
  • James F. Kidd, 46
  • Pete Parrous, 73 (the restaurant owner)
  • Ethel Parrous, 65 (Pete's wife)

References


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