1971 Kimpo Mass Shooting | |
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Location | Kimpo, South Korea |
Date | January 18, 1971 |
Weapons | M-16 rifle and hand grenades |
Deaths | 7 (Including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 4 |
Perpetrator | Kyung-yul King |
On January 18, 1971, Kyung-yul King (Korean: 공경렬), a South Korean marine corps sergeant, killed six people and wounded four others in a mass shooting in Kimpo, South Korea before committing suicide.[1][2]
After a drinking bout that night King detonated two hand grenades inside the marine camp, and then ran into a nearby village, where he shot dead two soldiers and four villagers with his M-16 assault rifle, and also injured four other villagers. Afterwards the 27-year-old fled into the mountains, where he committed suicide.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]