Johnson Space Center shooting
2007 hostage situation and shooting in Houston, Texas / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Johnson Space Center shooting was an incident of hostage taking that occurred on April 20, 2007 in Building 44, the Communication and Tracking Development Laboratory, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, United States. The gunman, William Phillips, an employee for Jacobs Engineering who worked at Building 44,[1] shot and killed one person and took a hostage for over three hours before committing suicide.[1] Police said Phillips was under review for poor job performance and he feared being dismissed.[2]
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Location | Clear Lake City, Houston, Texas, United States |
Coordinates | 29°33′40″N 95°05′32″W |
Date | April 20, 2007 (2007-04-20) 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (UTC-5) |
Target | Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center |
Attack type | Hostage taking, murder |
Weapons | .38 or .357-caliber revolver |
Deaths | 2 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 0 |
Perpetrator | William A. Philips |
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