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Crime History: Gunman kills 23, himself in Texas cafeteria

By Scott McCabe
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Crime History: Gunman kills 23, himself in Texas cafeteria

On this day, Oct. 16, in 1991, George Jo Hennard smashed his pickup into a cafeteria in central Texas and shot and killed 23 people before committing suicide.

It was the worst mass shooting in U.S. history until the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.

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