James Edward Pough

Infobox Mass Murderer
name = James Edward Pough


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birthname = James Edward Pough
occupation = Day laborer
birth = 1948
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death = June 18, 1990
deathplace = Jacksonville, Florida, United States
cause = Suicide
penalty =
date = June 17 – June 18, 1990
locations = Jacksonville, Florida, United States
fatalities = 11
injuries = 6
weapons = Revolver (.38)
Universal M1 Carbine

James Edward Pough (1948 – 18 June 1990) was an American mass murderer. On 18 June 1990, Pough, 42, shot 13 people, killing 9 before killing himself in a shooting spree in a General Motors Acceptance Corporation car loan office in Jacksonville, Florida, after his car, a red 1988 Pontiac, was repossessed. Before that day, he was believed to have killed two others - a prostitute and her pimp - and wounded two as well.

Victims

*Louis Carl Bacon, 39, shot on June 17
*Jewell Belote, 50, succumbed to his wounds nine days after the shooting
*Julia White Burgess, 42
*Janice David, 40
*Doretta Drake, 30, shot on June 17
*Sharon Louise Hall, 45
*Denise Sapp Highfill, 36
*Barbara Duckwall Holland, 45
*Cynthia Perry, 30
*Lee Simonton, 33
*Drew Woods, 38

ee also

GMAC massacre

External links

* [http://www.trynova.org/about/communities/1990.html NOVA Responses in 1990]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DC173EF933A15755C0A966958260 Hazy Records Helped Florida Gunman Buy Arms, "The New York Times"] (June 20, 1990)
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DF113DF93AA25755C0A966958260 Florida Gunman Kills 8 And Wounds 6 in Office] , "The New York Times" (June 19, 1990)