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Massacre at McDonald's

A San Diego news report relates the grisly details of a massacre that took place on July 18, 1984, when 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty walked into a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, California, and opened fire with an arsenal of guns, killing 21 people and wounding 19.

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