Editing Edward Charles Allaway (section)

===Early life===
Little is known about Allaway's early years, other than he was born sometime in 1939, possibly in Royal Oak, Michigan, where he lived most of his childhood at. 

Allaway had a history of mental illness, as he had tried to commit suicide and had been hospitalized and treated with electroconvulsive therapy in the past. Five different mental health professionals diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia.

He was found to have injured a co-worker at a Michigan plant. A short time before the shooting rampage, he had threatened his wife with a knife and raped her. Allaway's apparent motive was that he had delusions that pornographers were forcing his wife to appear in movies. The couple had separated over Memorial Day Weekend 1976 after a blow-up. 

Allaway landed a job as a custodian in the library of California State University at Fullerton with the help of his sister, who worked as a secretary in the university's sociology department. Coworkers described him as quiet and keeping to himself, but capable of lashing out against others and also racist. His wife had filed for divorce shortly before Allaway attacked co-workers at the university.