2015 Tyrone shootings
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On February 26, 2015, a gunman shot and killed seven people in several locations across the town of Tyrone, an unincorporated community approximately 95 miles east of Springfield, Missouri, United States. The gunman, identified as 36-year-old Joseph Jesse Aldridge, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the next day. It was the worst mass murder in the history of Texas County, which previously had experienced an average of one homicide per year. It is also the deadliest mass shooting in Missouri.
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Location | Tyrone, Missouri, U.S. |
Date | February 26, 2015 (2015-02-26) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, murder-suicide, spree shooting |
Weapons | .45-caliber Rock Island Armory 1911 handgun[1] |
Deaths | 8 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrator | Joseph Jesse Aldridge[2] |
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