Crime History: Gunmen execute 5 in ‘Wendy’s Massacre’

Published May 23, 2013 4:00am ET



On this day, May 24, in 2000, five employees of a Wendy’s restaurant in New York were killed and two seriously wounded during a robbery. The killings were dubbed the “Wendy’s Massacre.”

John B. Taylor, a former employee at the Queens fast-food restaurant, herded the seven workers into a basement freezer, bound and gagged them.

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