Byran Koji Uyesugi (born 1959) was a former Xerox service technician in Honolulu, Hawaii who was convicted of killing seven of his co-workers on November 2, 1999, in what has been called the Xerox murders, the worst mass murder case in the history of Hawaii. The case also heightened awareness of workplace violence in Hawaii and elsewhere. 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nickname: Motto: Official website: Location Location of Honolulu within the City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii. ... November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article deals with mass killings which are not considered genocide. ... Official language(s) Hawaiian and English Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 43rd 28,337 km² n/a km 2,450 km 41. ...

Early life

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Uyesugi lived in the Nuuanu neighborhood of Honolulu. While attending Roosevelt High School, Uyesugi was a member of the school's JROTC chapter and was a member of the school's riflery team. Classmates remembered him as a quiet student who never got into trouble. According to his brother Dennis, Uyesugi crashed their father's car and hit his head on the windshield shortly after graduating high school in 1977 coming home from a graduation party and was never the same [1]. Nickname: Motto: Official website: Location Location of Honolulu within the City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii. ... Looking north from the Pali overlook at Kāne‘ohe town and Kāne‘ohe Bay beyond. ... Name President Theodore Roosevelt High School Address 1120 Nehoa Street Town Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Established 1932 Community Urban Type Public Secondary Religion Secular Students Coeducational Grades 9 to 12 Accreditation Western Association of Schools and Colleges District Hawaii State Department of Education Subdistrict Honolulu District/Roosevelt-McKinley Complex Nickname Rough... The Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) is a program put forth by the United States Armed Forces in high schools across the nation that train highschool students in Leadership and Military Sciences. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...

Uyesugi had been employed by Xerox as a technician since 1984. Among his hobbies was raising and breeding goldfish and koi, which he would sell to local pet stores. He also had an extensive collection of firearms, and at the time of the murder had as many as 25 guns registered in his name dating back to 1982. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV in Roman) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Build up to shooting (Trouble at work)

According to Uyesugi's father's, Hiroyuki, testimony his son was normal until he started working for Xerox in 1984. Then when Hiroyuki's wife (Byran's mother) died in 1988, Byran started to complain that he had a poking sensation in his head [2].

Uyesugi's troubles apparently began soon after he was transferred to another workgroup. Former co-workers who knew him reported the other members of his team allegedly ostracized him, making him feel isolated and withdrawn. His anger was such that he reportedly made threats against other co-workers' lives. In 1993, ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation and anger management courses after he kicked in and damaged an elevator door for which he was arrested. This arrest prevented Uyesugi from purchasing anymore guns [3]. The psychiatrist who examined him at the time of this arrest found that Uyesugi suffered from a delusional disorder and paranoia, but found him not to be dangerous. (In 2005, Xerox and the hospital that examined Uyesugi settled a lawsuit brought by the families of the shooting victims, who felt that both had ignored clear signs of Uyesugi's mental instability.) 1993 (MCMXCIII in Roman) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Delusional disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a mental illness that involves holding one or more non-bizarre delusions in the absence of any other significant psychopathology (signs or symptoms of mental illness). ... In popular culture, the term paranoia is usually used to describe excessive concern about ones own well-being, sometimes suggesting a person holds persecutory beliefs concerning a threat to themselves or their property and is often linked to a belief in conspiracy theories. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Also in 1993, Uyesugi told his brother that a shadow pinned him down. The family had their house blessed by a Shingon priest in 1997 hoping to help him, but even the minister suspected Uyesugi had a mental illness. Later that year Uyesugi's father suggested that he see a psychiatrist.[4] Shingon (真言宗) is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and the most important school of Vajrayana Buddhism outside of the Himalayan region. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The day of the shooting

On the morning of November 2, 1999, Uyesugi reported to work at the Xerox building and opened fire with a GLOCK semi-automatic handgun, killing his supervisor and six co-workers and firing in the direction of another co-worker who fled the building. After the shooting, Uyesugi fled in a company van. Police closed down several streets in downtown Honolulu as they investigated the crime scene. By mid-morning, the police had Uyesugi cornered in the mountains above downtown Honolulu. After a nearly five-hour standoff, Uyesugi surrendered to police shortly before 3 p.m. November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Victims

• Christopher Balatico, 33
• Ford Kanehira, 41
• Ronald Kataoka, 50
• Ronald Kawamae, 54
• Melvin Lee, 58
• Peter Mark, 46
• John Sakamoto, 36

Trial and incarceration

Forty-year-old Byran Uyesugi's month long trial began on May 15, 2000. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and claimed that he felt like an outcast at work and that he feared his colleagues were conspiring to have him fired. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The insanity defense are possible defenses by excuse, via which a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for breaking the law, as they were mentally ill or mentally incompetent at the time of their allegedly criminal actions. ...

The jury found him sane and guilty of seven murders and one attempted murder. Hawaii does not have the death penalty and so Uyesugi received a sentence of life without parole. To meet Wikipedias quality standards and make it easier to understand, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. ...

He appealed his conviction[5]. In 2002, the State of Hawaii Supreme Court upheld Uyesugi's conviction[6]. As of 2004 Uyesugi is considering fighting his conviction based on Rule 40, inadequate representation by his lawyers in his first trial [7].

Uyesugi is now being held in Tallahatchie County Correctional facility in Tutwiler, Mississippi. This is due to overcrowding and inadequate facilities to house a prisoner in isolation at Halawa Correctional Facility.[8] Tutwiler is a town located in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. ...

External links

• Byran Uyesugi at the Notable Names Database
• Local coverage of the shooting in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
• Local coverage of the trial with pictures of victims in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
• 2004 article looking back on incident five years later in the Honolulu Advertiser
• List of Honolulu Advertiser articles during the trial