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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obi-Wan" data-source="post: 241847" data-attributes="member: 709"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting</a>Whitman killed his mother, Margaret Whitman, and his wife, Kathleen Leissner Whitman,[SUP]<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting#cite_note-TL-7" target="_blank">[7]</a>[/SUP][SUP]:53[/SUP][SUP]<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting#cite_note-:1-8" target="_blank">[8]</a>[/SUP] between midnight and 3:00 a.m. on August 1.[SUP]<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting#cite_note-:14-9" target="_blank">[9]</a>[/SUP] In a note he professed his love for both women, saying he had killed them to spare them future humiliation and—in the case of his mother—suffering.[SUP]<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting#cite_note-10" target="_blank">[10]</a>[/SUP]Later that morning, Whitman rented a hand truck and cashed $250 (equivalent to $1,900 in 2018) worth of bad checks at a bank. He then drove to a hardware store, where he purchased a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_carbine" target="_blank">Universal M1 carbine</a>, two additional ammunition magazines, and eight boxes of ammunition, telling the cashier he planned to hunt <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar" target="_blank">wild hogs</a>.[SUP]<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting#cite_note-TL-7" target="_blank">[7]</a>[/SUP][SUP]:32[/SUP] At a gun shop he purchased four more carbine magazines, six additional boxes of ammunition, and a can of gun cleaning solvent.[SUP]<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting#cite_note-11" target="_blank">[11]</a>[/SUP] At <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Holdings_Corporation" target="_blank">Sears</a> he purchased a Sears Model 60 <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_(bore_diameter)" target="_blank">12 gauge</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_shotgun" target="_blank">semi-automatic shotgun</a>before returning home.[SUP]<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting#cite_note-12" target="_blank">[12]</a>[/SUP]Whitman sawed off the barrel and butt stock of the shotgun, then packed it into his footlocker, along with a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_700" target="_blank">Remington 700</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/6mm_Remington" target="_blank">6-mm</a> bolt-action hunting rifle, a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.35_Remington" target="_blank">.35-caliber</a> pump rifle, a .30-caliber carbine (M1), a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luger_P08_pistol" target="_blank">9-mm Luger pistol</a>, a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galesi-Brescia" target="_blank">Galesi-Brescia</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.25_ACP" target="_blank">.25-caliber</a> pistol, a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_19" target="_blank">Smith & Wesson M19</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.357_Magnum" target="_blank">.357 Magnum</a>revolver, and more than 700 rounds of ammunition. He also packed food, coffee, vitamins, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexedrine" target="_blank">Dexedrine</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excedrin" target="_blank">Excedrin</a>, earplugs, jugs of water, matches, lighter fluid, rope, binoculars, a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete" target="_blank">machete</a>, three knives, a transistor radio, toilet paper, a razor, and a bottle of deodorant.[SUP]<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting#cite_note-TL-7" target="_blank">[7]</a>[/SUP][SUP]:31[/SUP] He put khaki coveralls on over his shirt and jeans.[SUP]<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting#cite_note-MMIA-13" target="_blank">[13]</a>[/SUP][SUP]:28[/SUP]</blockquote>

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