The Strathfield massacre was a shooting rampage in Sydney, Australia on August 17, 1991. The shooter was Wade Frankum, who killed himself at the end of the massacre. Altogether, the shooting left eight dead, including the gunman, and six more wounded. This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Wade Frankum was a 33 year old mass murderer who killed seven people in Australia in 1991 in what is known as the Strathfield Massacre. ...

Perpetrator

In the apartment where Frankum lived alone, police found a large collection of violent literature and video copies of violent films. One of his books was a well-thumbed copy of American Psycho and although there is no direct evidence that the controversial novel had inspired Frankum, a number of suggestions that it had done so were made in newspapers. American Psycho has been condemned as misogynistic because it features many gruesome murders of women, and some thought it significant that five of the seven people Frankum killed were women. He is also said to have possessed a copy of the book The Female Eunuch by feminist author Germaine Greer. For other uses, see American Psycho (disambiguation). ... Misogyny is an exaggerated pathological aversion towards women. ... Dr. Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (born January 29, 1939) is an Australian academic, writer, and broadcaster, who is widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the 20th century. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... Germaine Greer (born January 29, 1939) is an Australian-born writer, broadcaster and retired academic, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the 20th century. ...

Rampage

At around 1:00 p.m., 33-year-old Frankum went to the Strathfield Plaza, a shopping mall. He sat in a café called The Coffee Pot, where he drank a number of cups of coffee. Strathfield is an Inner West suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see pedestrian street or promenade. ...

At approximately 3.30 p.m., apparently without provocation, Frankum pulled a large knife from an army surplus duffel bag and repeatedly stabbed one of two teenage girls who were sitting next to him, killing the girl. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A duffel bag (or duffle bag), is a large cylindrical bag made of cloth with the closure at the top, often also refered to as a kit bag The name comes from Duffel a town in Belgium where the thick cloth the bag is made of originally originated. ...

Leaving the knife in the body of the girl, he pulled a semi-automatic rifle out of his duffel bag and shot around the café, killing several more people. He then shot the café's owner dead and fled into the main area of the mall, where he killed his last victim. A semi-automatic rifle is a type of rifle that fires a single bullet each time the trigger is pulled, without the need to manually operate a bolt, lever or other firing or loading mechanism. ...

Frankum ran into the rooftop car park and held a car owner at gunpoint, demanding that she take him to Enfield, a nearby suburb. Before the terrified woman could start her car, the police began to arrive on the scene. Hearing the approaching sirens, Frankum apologised to the woman and then got out of the car, knelt on the ground and shot himself in the head, committing suicide. Enfield is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ...

Frankum's spree had lasted 10 minutes. He had killed seven people and injured six, none of them personally known to him.

Victims

• Roberta Armstrong
• Robertson Kan Hock Joon
• Patricia Rowe
• Carole Dickson
• Joyce Nixon
• Rachell Milburn
• George Mavis

Notes

• The massacre bought up the issue of gun control in Australia, as did the Port Arthur massacre perpetrated by Martin Bryant five years later.

In Australia, conflict over gun politics is related to cultural tensions. ... The current version of this article or section is written in an informal style and with a personally invested tone. ... Martin John Bryant (born 7 May 1967) murdered 35 people and injured 37 others in the Port Arthur massacre, a killing spree in Tasmania in 1996. ...

See also

• List of disasters in Australia by death toll

• http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/28/ch4.pdf
• http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDA173CF93BA2575BC0A967958260