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The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania.The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, killed 35 people and wounded 23 others, the deadliest massacre in modern Australian history. [3]
Uniform police, some distance away, were dispatched at 1335. Bryant had killed 27 people changing between rifles. He left Port Arthur at about 1345 hours, carjacking a BMW at the entrance, and later stopped a Toyota exiting a service station, taking a male hostage, before returning to Seascape at about 1400 hours.
A man shot and killed two of his roommates before shooting his landlord to death at another location. The gunman was shot by police during a car chase and arrested. [30] 27 October 1992: Central Coast, New South Wales: 6 1 7: Central Coast massacre: A man armed with a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun shot and killed six people and wounded another. [31]
Pymble shooting 23 January 1987 Pymble, New South Wales 4 0 Richard Maddrell went to the family home of his former girlfriend, shot her and three others. [23] Top End shootings: June 1987 Top End, Northern Territory: 5 (plus 1 perp.) 0 Spree killing by Joseph Schwab over a five-day period. Shot dead by police. Hoddle Street massacre: 9 August 1987
Martin John Bryant (born 7 May 1967) is an Australian mass murderer [1] who shot and killed thirty-five people and injured twenty-three others in the Port Arthur massacre on 28 and 29 April 1996. [2] He is currently serving thirty-five life sentences , and 135 years without the possibility of parole , at Risdon Prison in Hobart , Tasmania .
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was told "don't say a word" by his lawyer in court, following an outburst outside the hearing at a Pennsylvania ...
Porter's client was Premier of Tasmania at the time of the events, and was a person of primary interest. Porter also appeared for the family of the deceased at a lengthy inquest in 1992, and subsequent Supreme Court proceedings, in relation to a highly publicised police shooting.
Tasmania Police Assistant Commissioner Glenn Frame said that 12-year-olds were now committing crimes such as stealing cars, rather than 17- to 18-year-olds. 2017-8 crime statistics showed that children were responsible for 29.4% of all home burglaries, 41.8% of all car break-ins, 23.4% of all business burglaries, 24.4% of all car thefts, 12.9% ...