Wakefield massacre
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The Wakefield massacre occurred on Tuesday, December 26, 2000, at Edgewater Technology
Edgewater Technology
 Edgewater Technology is a technology management consulting firm headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States. Edgewater, recognized by CNN/Money as the 28th fastest growing small business in 2008...

 in Wakefield, Massachusetts
Wakefield, Massachusetts
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, United States
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, during which the gunman, Michael "Mucko" McDermott, an application support employee, shot and killed seven co-workers.

He was found by police sitting calmly and stated that he didn't speak German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

. At trial, he stated that he was born without a soul and that God had allowed him to earn a soul by traveling back in time to kill Nazis. However, the prosecution asserted that the killings were motivated by his employer's garnishing of his wages to the IRS, to pay back taxes that he owed.

The weapons he used were an AK-47 variant, a 12-gauge shotgun
Shotgun
A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug...

, and a .32 caliber pistol
Pistol
When distinguished as a subset of handguns, a pistol is a handgun with a chamber that is integral with the barrel, as opposed to a revolver, wherein the chamber is separate from the barrel as a revolving cylinder. Typically, pistols have an effective range of about 100 feet.-History:The pistol...

. He fired off a total of 37 rounds, shooting his victims in the back of the head repeatedly.

He was found guilty of seven counts of first degree murder and sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole
Parole
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.

In the court session following the crimes, McDermott claimed he had "Travelled back in time and killed Hitler and the last 6 Nazis."

In 2008 this case was studied on the psychology programme Most Evil
Most Evil
Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University. On the show, Stone rates murderers on a scale of evil that he has developed...

.

McDermott is also cited in the 2003 Psychology book "Why We Hate" By Rush W. Dozier - McGraw-Hill pub.

Fatalities

  • Janice Haggerty, 46, office manager
  • Jennifer Bragg Capobianco, 29, marketing
  • Cheryl Troy, 50, vice president of human resources
  • Rose Manfredi, 48, accountant in payroll department
  • Louis Javelle, 58, director of consulting
  • Paul Marceau, 36, development technician
  • Craig Wood, 29, human resources

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