r/masskillers 13h ago

ON THIS DAY… 15 years ago, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a truck bomb in Oslo, before traveling to & carrying out an attack on Utøya, killing 77 people in total.

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r/masskillers 12h ago

ON THIS DAY… On the fifth anniversary of the Norway attacks, in Germany, an 18-year-old David Sonboly shot and killed nine at a mall before committing suicide.

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r/masskillers 22h ago

Discussion / Question How did Jakrapanth Thomma kill two police officers and a solider?

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The Wikipedia article says that 30 people were killed and 58 others were injured in the shootings Jakrapanth Thomma was a trained Thai soldier and at some point during the standoff at the mall the security forces decided to storm it to get to Jakrapanth but he ended up killing two police officers and one solider and injuring three more security personnel was it some sort of ambush that happened or a prolonged firefight that resulted in the deaths of the three security personnel?


r/masskillers 5h ago

The investigation into the fire at the Hongda Auto International Plaza in Henan, China, has concluded—it has been confirmed as arson. The fire, caused by a business dispute, resulted in 2 deaths and 2 injuries.

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Police Report Jinshui District Public Security Bureau, July 22, 2026, 09:09, Henan Province

At approximately 21:00 on June 19, 2026, a fire broke out at the Hongda International Automotive Plaza, resulting in 2 deaths, 2 injuries, and property damage.

It has now been determined that the fire was arson committed by Lu, a suspect in a business dispute. The suspect has been arrested on suspicion of arson, and the case is under further investigation.

Jinshui Branch of Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau, July 22, 2026


r/masskillers 1h ago

Mugshot of 30-year-old Tsegaab Binessu, who shot and killed 3 people inside the leasing office of an apartment complex in St. Paul, Minnesota 2 days ago on July 20. He was later arrested 200 miles away in the city of Virginia, Minnesota

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r/masskillers 19h ago

Discussion / Question What ever came of David Esco Welch, a mass shooter that killed 6 people in 1986

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For some context into my question, I'm a hobbyist researcher who is currently conducting a personal research project in American death penalty cases. The case that I'm inquiring about here is that of David Esco Welch, who was initially sentenced to death by the state of California for a 1986 mass shooting that killed six people inside an Oakland home. The slain victims consisted of his teenage ex-girlfriend, two of her brothers and her toddler daughter, and a mother and toddler aged son pair of house guests.

Although I currently cannot find any sources announcing a sentence vacating, Welch has disappeared from CDCR's condemned prisoners roster. He also seems completely missing from CDCR records as a whole. From my searches in the CDCR inmate search database, there is a prisoner by the name of David Welch of a relatively similar age with a parole suitability hearing of September 2029. But that David Welch's admission date is listed as Aug 28, 2003, is interned from Sacramento county instead of Alameda, and has the middle name of "Carol" instead of "Esco", and thus they might be entirely different individuals.

If he were among the many other Alameda County's former death row inmates (like Ernest Dykes, Curtis Ervin, and Mark Schmeck) released under the direction of then Alameda County district attorney Pamela Price, I would think that the parole of a prisoner that killed two toddlers and four other people would receive some considerable media coverage, and there is currently no sources mentioning that at all. Indeed, the last article I was able to find of Welch on google searches was a 2021 Mercery News article about Bay Area mass shootings, which claimed that he was still on death row.

The Death Penalty Information Center's census database claims that he died on death row, but he isn't among the 201 deceased death row inmates listed on the Condemned Inmates Who Have Died Since 1978 list on CDCR's website. To repeat myself a bit here, I've also have yet to find any outlets announcing his passing.

What transpired of him after his disappearance from CDCR's records? I'm currently at a complete dead end with researching Welch's whereabouts, and would greatly appreciate any help.

Sources on Welch:

1.https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-supreme-court/1705414.html

2.https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/12/09/The-massacre-of-six-people-including-two-children-was/9233534488400/

3.https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Mass-murderer-David-Moochie-Welch-s-death-6342985.php


r/masskillers 5h ago

The perpetrator of the arson attack in Zhengzhou, China, has been formally arrested.

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r/masskillers 4h ago

Nottingham attacks NHS trust faces manslaughter probe

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