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William Ray Bonner (born March 28, 1948) was an unemployed service station attendant who went on a shooting spree through the South Side area of Los Angeles, California on April 22, 1973 that left a total of seven people dead and nine others wounded and ended with his arrest after he had been injured in a shootout with police. Bonner was sentenced to life imprisonment later the same year and is currently an inmate at California State Prison in Vacaville.〔(Six slain, 10 hurt in L.A. shooting spree ), ''Merced Sun-Star'' (April 23, 1973)〕〔(LA Shootings claim six lives ), ''The Press-Courier'' (April 23, 1973)〕 ==Shooting spree== The shooting began at Bonner's home at approximately 2:35 p.m. after he had gotten into an argument with Otha Leavitt, a friend of his mother, who had paid them a short visit to make a phone call. Enraged he went outside and, with a handgun, fired a shot each at 16-year-old Anthony Thomas and 17-year-old Carolyn Cleveland, who had accompanied Mrs. Leavitt and waited in her car. Leaving the two teenagers severely wounded Bonner returned inside and killed Otha Leavitt with a shot in the head, before hijacking her Plymouth Valiant, which by then had been vacated by Thomas and Cleveland. Armed with his handgun and a 20-gauge pump-action shotgun, Bonner drove to a gas station about 1.5 miles from his home, where he had been employed previously as a service station attendant. Arriving there at about 2:43 p.m. he approached the occupants of an Chevrolet Impala, 18-year-old Vicky Wells and her 13-year-old sister Aileen, both known to him since their early childhood. He shot Vicky in the back with his shotgun, critically wounding her and killed Aileen, also by a shot in the back, when she was running towards the service area.〔 Bonner then sped away to another nearby gas station, his workplace until one week prior to the shooting spree, where he arrived at 2:45 p.m. Carrying his shotgun he entered the service bay area where he called out for his friend and former colleague, Raleigh Henderson, who had helped him get the job there. When Henderson turned around Bonner shot him once in the stomach and then fired again when Henderson exclaimed "What have I done?"〔 Pointing at the body on the floor Bonner asked service station attendant James Morrow: "Do you know if anyone wants some of that?"〔(Planned shotgun rampage kills 6 and wounds 10 ), ''The Argus-Press'' (April 23, 1973)〕 He approached a female customer, fired a shot in the air and then left for the home of Jevie Thompson, with whose son, Vernon, he had an argument the night before. Bonner arrived there about 5 minutes later and killed Jevie Thompson with a shotgun blast in the stomach, and critically wounded his wife, Eddie Mae, as well as his 15-year-old son Alfred. Bonner's next stop was Smitty's Drive-In Liquors, where he appeared at 3:14 p.m. Believing he had been short-changed there once, he killed the shop owner, Smitty Sneed, again with a shot in the stomach, and wounded a customer, 58-year-old Duly Oscar Bennett, in the shoulder, before heading towards Liquorama Liquors, where he shot and critically wounded 23-year-old employee Robert L. Smith with a shot in the stomach, and hit 28-year-old Roosevelt D. Jenkins, another employee, in the leg. A couple of minutes later Bonner barged into the house of his former girlfriend, 22-year-old Diane Lore Andrea, who had taken the side of Vernon Thompson during the argument the day before, and broken up their relationship afterwards. He shot her in the neck with his shotgun, severing her jugular vein and spinal cord. She died instantly.〔(Shootings described as planned sequence ), ''Wilmington Morning Star'' (April 24, 1973)〕〔(Murderous chase leaves six dead ), ''The Bryan Times'' (April 23, 1973)〕〔(Love Spat Blamed for Spree in Which Gunman Killed Six ), ''Los Angeles Times'' (April 23, 1973)〕〔Preimsberger, Duane: (William "Easter" Bonner )〕 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「William Ray Bonner shooting spree」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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