David Richard Berkowitz: The 44 Caliber Killer

The couple went through arrests, murders, and lived their lives in one big police chase. They were fatally shot on May 23rd, 1934, when police officers from Louisiana and Texas hid in bushes along a highway in Sailes. Louisiana. They waited there until they spotted them in a vehicle and opened

Lake Jackson Texas. She died due to gunshot wound ON MARCH 31, 1995. She was 23 years old.

Meggyesy died on March 29, 1986, after being shot in the back and the head in the kitchen of her rural Killbuck Township home. Five days later, John Friedrich, a family friend and former employee of her husband, Dennis, was arrested. And, in March 1988 he was convicted of her murder.

that day. Many say Lee Harvey Oswald was the shooter but I think Oswald never even pulled the

School shootings seemed like a new phenomenon, but they occurred for the majority of American history. The first school shooting occurred On July 26, 1764, when a Lenape Indian shot and killed nine children and the school master of the Greencastle, Pennsylvania school (Galvin): as noted in Appendix A. Since 1764, the number of school shootings rose exponentially. In the 1990’s,

From 1976 to 1977 David Berkowitz terrorized the New York City area with a string of murders. With his Charter Arms Bulldog 44 Berkowitz killed six people and wounded seven in eight different shootings throughout New York, because of his weapon the news called him "The .44 Caliber Killer" however he eventually dubbed himself with the name “Son of Sam” after sending taunting letters to both the NYC police and renowned journalist Jimmy Breslin One of the first letters that Berkowitz sent that referred to himself as the Son of Sam said, “But I am a monster. I am “the Son of Sam.” I am a little “brat”” throughout these letters David Berkowitz continued to refer to himself a the son of sam.

On April 25th of 1980 Bobby James Moore who was 20 at the time, along with two other men (Willie Albert Koonce and Evertte Anthony Pradia) were in the process of robbing a convenient store located in Houston, Texas, when James McCarble (store clerk) was fatally shot. When Scott realized what was occurring she started to scream, this is when Bobby James Moore than shot 73-year old employee James McCarble in the head killing her. Moore fled the scene, and was found 10 days later, arrested and charged with capital murder- the jury sentenced him to death.

13 year old, Nicole Lovell was stabbed to death the day she went missing from her home in Blacksburg, Virginia. This was February 3rd.

Two people were killed as a result of the officer. Quintonio LeGrier, 19 years old, and 55-year-old Bettie Jones were both shot and killed. Reports state that LeGrier was acting oddly and was carrying a metal bat around his father’s apartment. His mother stated that he was a college student who was suffering from unknown mental health issues.

16- year old James Colder and 17 - year old Mark Lopez located at Waverly, Virginia, was found fatally shot out in the backyard of Colders residents house on December 1, 2016.

Oct. 16, 1991in Killen, Texas, 35 years old George J. Hennard, crashed his truck into a crowded patrons at Luby’s cafeteria during lunchtime, then opened a semiautomatic pistol into a crowded patrons, killed 22 people and wounded 20 others, before he shot himself.

A reporter and cameraman of WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Va., were shot and killed Wednesday during a live broadcast of the morning news. Vester Lee Flanagan II fired 17 shots from point-blank range to kill Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, and injuring another woman before taking his own life later that day.

On April 6, 1968, in West Oakland, 17 year old Bobby Hutton was shot dead by police. Bobby Hutton was shot ten times after his house is set on fire and he is forced to run out into a fire of bullets.

Just yesterday, there was a horrifying death, at Smyth’s Gun Shop in Plainfield. A woman by the name of Yvette Harvey killed herself with one of the guns on display at this shop. It was later discovered that the woman obtained the bullets at Walmart. This knowledge was achieved when investigators found a receipt for a box of ammunition in Yvette Harvey’s purse. The owner of the gun shop stated, “ She asked to see a pistol. She said she wanted to keep it in the house, for protection. Then, the woman asked if I had any literature on the model, and when I turned my back to find some, she shot herself with the gun.” Many might also recognize the woman's last name, which is Harvey. Just recently, the woman's daughter was the first killed at the

David Berkowitz, who many know under the alias of the Son of Sam, or the .44 Caliber Killer, was a serial killer in the 1970s. Berkowitz was a resident of New York City. He was arrested on August 10th of 1977 and was followed up by a sentence of six life sentences in prison on June 12, 1978. This makes his supreme term around 365 years behind bars. To follow are the details of Berkowitz and his life.