Joseph Wesbecker

Joseph Wesbecker On the morning of September 14, 1989, Joseph Wesbecker walked into the printing plant of his employer, the Standard Gravure Corporation of Louisville, Kentucky, and began blasting away with an AK-47. When the shooting was over, twelve people were wounded and nine were dead. Wesbecker was included in the fatalities; a self-inflicted pistol shot to the chin killed him. Joseph T. Wesbecker was forty-seven years old. He was twice divorced and the father of two …

…old white male that was a gun enthusiast. Wesbecker had six weapons at the crime scene, and upon further investigation police found that he had several more guns at his home. He also committed suicide at the end of the murder event. Wesbecker is a very good example of a mass murderer who killed because he was angry with his employers. He had been an employee for twenty years until he had finally had enough.