Editing James Oliver Huberty

{{Villain_Infobox|Image =Huberty.jpg|fullname = James Oliver Huberty|type of villain = Mass Shooter|occupation = Embalmer<br>Welder<br>Real esate agent|hobby = Riding bicycles and motorcyles<br>Collecting firearms|alias = The McDonald's Shooter<br>The San Ysidro Shooter|skills = Shooting|goals = Kill everyone at McDonald's (failed)|origin = Canton, Ohio, United States|crimes = [[Mass murder]]<br>[[Domestic Abuse|Domestic abuse]]<br>[[Animal cruelty]]<br>[[Misogyny]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]}}

{{Quote|I've killed a thousand, and I'll kill a thousand more!|Huberty during the massacre.}}

'''James Oliver Huberty''' (October 11, 1942 - July 18, 1984) was the perpetrator of the 1984 McDonalds Massacre in San Ysidro, CA, currently ranked the eighth-deadliest [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] in United States history.<ref>[https://medium.com/@chelsea.rose/the-man-who-went-hunting-for-humans-ec520338dfe4 The Man Who Went Hunting for Humans], ''Medium''</ref>

Huberty found work as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welder welder] for Union Metal Inc. while living in Canton. He and Etna had a history of violent behavior. [[Domestic Abuse|Domestic violence]] was frequent in the Huberty household, with Etna once filing a report with the Canton Department of Children and Family Services that her husband had "messed up" her jaw. She would produce tarot cards and pretend to read his future to pacify him and his bouts of violence, thus producing a temporary calming effect. Etna instructed her daughter Zelia to physically assault one of her classmates at a neighbor's daughter's birthday party. In a related altercation with the child's mother, Etna threatened the woman with a 9 mm pistol; the Canton police arrested her but failed to confiscate the weapon. Huberty shot his dog, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Shepherd German Shepherd], in the head when a neighbor complained about the dog damaging his car.</p>

Huberty, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivalist survivalist], saw signs of what he thought was growing trouble in America, and believed that government regulations were the cause of business failures, including his own. Huberty believed an escalation of the [[Cold War]] was inevitable and that president Jimmy Carter and, later, Ronald Reagan and the United States government were conspiring against him, and that international bankers were purposefully manipulating the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System Federal Reserve System] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy bankrupting] the nation. Convinced that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union Soviet] aggression was everywhere, he believed that the breakdown of society was near, perhaps through [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_collapse economic collapse] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_war nuclear war]. He committed himself to prepare to survive this coming collapse and, while in Canton, provisioned his house with thousands of dollars of non-perishable food and six guns that he intended to use to defend his home during what he believed was the coming chaos. When he moved from Ohio he left the food behind but brought the guns with him.

Huberty used a 9 mm [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi Uzi] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_weapon semi-automatic] (the primary weapon fired in the massacre), a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Repeating_Arms_Company Winchester] pump-action 12-gauge shotgun, and a 9 mm[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_HP Browning HP] in the restaurant, killing 21 people and wounding 19 others. His victims were predominantly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_people Mexican] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-American Mexican-American] and ranged in age from 8 months to 74 years. The massacre began at 3:59 p.m. and lasted for 77 minutes. He had spent 257 rounds of ammunition before he was fatally shot by a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAT SWAT] team [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper sniper], Chuck Foster, perched on the roof of the post office adjacent to the restaurant.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/07/20/death-blood-in-a-place-of-laughter/a5bb422b-fc48-4289-ab47-0f63d88676cd/ Death, Blood In a Place Of Laughter], ''The Washington Post''</ref>

Although Huberty stated during the massacre that he had killed thousands during the [[Vietnam War]], he had never actually served in any military branch. Eyewitnesses stated that he had previously been seen at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bear_Stores Big Bear] supermarket and later at the US Post Office. It was surmised that he found the McDonald's to be a better target.

7 years later, on October 16, 1991, a 35-year-old man named [[George Hennard]] shot and killed 23 people at a Luby's cafeteria supposedly after watching a documentary on Huberty.

 

 

 

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