Patrick Sherrill

Infobox Mass Murderer
name = Patrick Sherrill

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image_size = 200px
caption = Memorial of the 1986 post office incident in Edmond, Oklahoma.
birthname = Patrick Henry Sherrill
occupation = Postal worker
birth = November 13, 1941
location =
death = August 20, 1986
deathplace = Edmond, Oklahoma, United States
cause = Suicide
penalty =
date = August 20, 1986
targets = Edmond Postal Service employees
locations = Edmond, Oklahoma, United States
fatalities = 14
injuries = 6
weapons = Two Colt 1911A1 (.45 ACP)
Pistol (.22) [ [http://www.fdungan.com/usps2.htm Mass murder and the postal purges] ]

Patrick Henry Sherrill (November 13, 1941 – August 20, 1986) was a United States Postal Service employee who, on August 20, 1986 in Edmond, Oklahoma, shot and killed 14 employees with two .45 caliber pistols at his work place before turning one of the guns on himself and committing suicide. Six other employees were wounded.

The incident is credited with inspiring the American phrase "going postal".

Victims

*Patricia Ann Chambers, 41, part-time clerk
*Judy Stephens Denney, 41, part-time clerk
*Richard C. Esser Jr., 38, supervisor
*Patricia A. Gabbard, 47, clerk
*Jonna Gragert Hamilton, 30, clerk
*Patty Jean Husband, 48, supervisor
*Betty Ann Jarred, 34, clerk
*William F. Miller, 30, rural carrier
*Kenneth W. Morey, 49, rural carrier
*Leroy Orrin Phillips, 42, rural carrier
*Jerry Ralph Pyle, 51, rural carrier
*Paul Michael Rockne, 33, letter carrier
*Thomas Wade Shader Jr., 31, part-time clerk
*Patti Lou Welch, 27, clerk

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050212120203/http://massmurder.zyns.com/patrick_sherrill_03.html Patrick's Day]
* [http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/work_homicide/4.html Going postal]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,144859,00.html "Crazy Pat's" Revenge] , "Time Magazine" (June 24, 2001)
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9A0DE4DD1430F931A1575BC0A960948260 The loner: From shy football player to "Crazy Pat"] , "The New York Times" (August 22, 1986)
* [http://www.enidnews.com/opinion/local_story_232005852.html?keyword=topstory Aug. 20, 1986: Just an ordinary day] , "EnidNews.com" (August 20, 2006)

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