BONUS - 101 California Mass Shooting

Bonus May Episode 2

Case Sources:

The San Francisco Chronicle, “Victims – More Than a Tally of Names,” July 3, 1983.

The New York Times, nytimes.com, “The Broker Who Killed 8: Gunman’s Motives a Puzzle,” by Robert Reinhold, July 3, 1993

Chicagotribune.com, “San Francisco Gunman’s Rage is Revealed in Four-Page Letter,” by San Francisco Chronicle, July 4, 1993

Cbsnews.com, “Dark Day in San Francisco: Eight Die in 101 California Massacre,” by CBS San Francisco, August 14, 2018

Sfgate.com, “101 Calif. massacre law firm closing,” by Steven A. Chin and Erin McCormick, March 6, 1995

Sfgate.com, “101 California shooting shocked S.F., 1993,” by Sam Whiting, December 6, 2012

NBC Bay Area News, nbcbayarea.com, “101 California Shooting: 20 Years Later,” by Diane Dwyer and Amanda Hochmuth, June 29, 2013

University of California, Berkeley, www.law.berkeley.edu, “101 California Street Killings and Gun Control Litigation: Merrill v. Navegar, Inc.” by Bryan Kirk

Findagrave.com, Gian Luigi Ferri

Hines.com, 101 California

Vice.com, “The Time Gun Control Actually Happened After a Horrific Mass Shooting,” by Harry Cheadle, March 7, 2018

Google maps

Murderpedia.org, Gian Luigi Ferri

Alchetron.com, “101 California Street shooting,” updated on September 6, 2022

Aoav.org.uk, “15 Shootings that changed the law: San Francisco, 1993,” by AOAV, April 17, 2014

Newspapers.com, Southern Illinoisan, “High-rise gunman had an arsenal – and a grudge,” by AP, July 3, 1993

Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, “18th Anniversary of 101 California Street Shooting: Officials Call on Congress to Pass Ban on Large Capacity Ammunition Magazines,” June 28, 2011

Violence Policy Center, vpc.org, “Where’d They Get Their Guns?” July 1, 1993

Steven Rupp v. Xavier Becerra, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Brief of Survivors of the 101 California Shooting and Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellee and Affirmance, June 2, 2020

Tampa Bay Times, tampabay.com, “Gunman felt cheated, so he killed 8,” July 3, 1993

Sfweekly.com, “Yesterday’s Crimes: Death Takes the Elevator at 101 California,” by Nuala Sawyer Bishari, July 17, 2017

Assisted research and writing by Diane Birnholz