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On December 13, 1993, four employees were shot and killed and a fifth employee was seriously injured at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in Aurora, Colorado. The perpetrator, 19-year-old Nathan Dunlap, a former employee of the restaurant, was frustrated about being fired from working at the restaurant five months prior to the shooting and sought revenge by committing the attack. He had also fled the scene of the shooting with stolen cash and restaurant items. He was found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and other charges, and was sentenced to death in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Election results favor Colorado death row inmate )〕 A judge initially set an execution date for him in August 2013, but Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed a temporary reprieve that would postpone Dunlap's execution date. ==Shooting== Dunlap entered the restaurant at 9:00 p.m., where he ordered a ham and cheese sandwich and played an arcade game. He then hid in a restroom at about 9:50 p.m. He exited the restroom after closing at 10:05 p.m. and shot five employees with a .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol. He first shot Sylvia Crowell, 19, who was cleaning the salad bar. She was hit from close range in the right ear and was critically wounded. Ben Grant, 19, was fatally shot near the left eye as he was vacuuming. Colleen O'Connor, 17, pleaded for her for life and sunk to her knees, but Dunlap fatally shot her once through the top of her head. Bobby Stephens, 20, the lone survivor of the shooting, returned to the restaurant after taking a break by smoking outside, assuming the noise he heard from the restaurant when he was outside were children popping balloons nearby. As he walked into the restaurant and unloaded utensils into the dishwasher, Dunlap came through the kitchen door, raised the handgun at him, and fired a shot that struck Stephens in the jaw. He then fell to the floor and played dead. Dunlap then forced Marge Kohlberg, 50, the store manager, to unlock the safe. After she opened it, Dunlap shot her in the ear. As he was taking the cash out of the safe, Dunlap fired a second fatal shot through Kohlberg's other ear after he noticed she was still moving.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nathan Dunlap: Sentenced to Death )〕 The manager who fired Dunlap was not present at the restaurant. Stephens escaped through a back door and walked to the nearby Mill Pond apartment complex, where he pounded on a door to alert someone that he and others had been shot at the Chuck E. Cheese. Stephens was hospitalized at Denver General Hospital in fair condition. As authorities arrived on the scene, they found two bodies in the restaurant's hallway, a third in a room off the hallway, and the fourth in the manager's office. Sylvia Crowell was sent to Denver General Hospital, where she was declared brain dead.〔 She died from her injuries the next day at Aurora Regional Medical Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ex-worker held in killings )〕 Dunlap then fled the scene and made off with $1,500 worth of cash and game tokens he stole from inside the restaurant. Dunlap was arrested at his mother's apartment twelve hours later.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Politics of Killing )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1993 Aurora shooting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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