The history of deadly gunfire in Texas

Ten people were killed by a gunman at Santa Fe High School in Houston on Friday, including nine students and one adult.

This is the first mass shooting in Texas since the attack at Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church in November that left 26 people, including an unborn baby, dead.

Here is a look at the history of mass shootings in Texas.

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Mass shootings in Texas history:

August 1, 1966 — The UT Tower

It was a hot Monday morning at the University of Texas at Austin when Charles Whitman took guns, ammunition and canned food to the observation deck of the UT tower and fired at people on the campus below over a period of 96 minutes.

He killed 14 people and injured more than 30 from his position at the top of the tower. Before arriving on campus, he killed his mother and his wife.

Whitman was shot and killed when police officers and a civilian came to the top of the tower and fired shots.

Whitman was 25 and had been a student at the university. Before starting at UT, he was a sharpshooter in the Marines.

February 3, 1980 — Starburst Lounge in El Paso

Barry Chvarak was 21 years old when he walked into the Starburst Lounge in El Paso, Texas and used a .22-caliber rifle to kill five people and injure three others.

An account of the incident from an Associated Press story described how one customer at the bar grabbed Chvarak while “another hit him with a pool cue and a third stepped into the path of a bullet to spare a woman’s life.”

Two customers at the bar “subdued Chvarak and held him until police officers arrived on the scene. He was arrested and his bond was set at $1 million, according to the article.

Chvarak pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to five concurrent life sentences and his serving his sentence at a state prison unit in Potter County, Texas.

When he was eligible for parole in 2000, family members of the people he killed circulated a petition in El Paso to oppose his parole and ensure he was not released, according to an El Paso Times article. He was denied parole again in 2016.

October 16, 1991 — Luby’s in Killeen

At lunch time on a Wednesday in Killeen, Texas, George Jo Hennard drove his pickup truck into Luby’s Cafeteria and used a semiautomatic pistol to kill 23 people and injure about 27.

As police officers arrived at the restaurant, Hennard turned the gun on himself and took his own life.

There were approximately 80 people at the restaurant, many of whom were celebrating National Boss’s Day, according to a 1991 story from The New York Times.

At the time, this was the deadliest mass shooting in the country.

September 16, 1999 — Fort Worth's Wedgwood Baptist Church

When Larry Gene Ashbrook walked into a youth service at the Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, he was armed with a semiautomatic handgun, 200 rounds of ammunition and a pipe bomb.

Ashbrook fired on the group and killed seven people, including several teenagers, according to a 1999 story from The New York Times. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound before law enforcement arrived at the church.

November 5, 2009 — Fort Hood

Eight years before Sutherland Springs, a U.S. Army officer brought a semi-automatic pistol to Fort Hood, a military base in Killeen.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people and injured more than 30 others when he opened fire at a group of people at a processing center on the base. The area was for soldiers returning from deployment and those preparing to deploy. He killed 12 service members and one employee from the Department of Defense.

Hasan was shot by police and survived, but was paralyzed from the waist down. In 2013, he was found guilty of the murders and sentenced to death.

This event is the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.

April 2, 2014 — Fort Hood, again

Nearly five years after Hasan killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Army Spec. Ivan Lopez used a .45-caliber pistol to kill three people and injure at least 12 others after his request for time off was not approved.

Lopez died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the right side of his head.

Nov. 5, 2017 — Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church

Dressed in black tactical gear and wielding at semi-automatic rifle, Devin Patrick Kelley burst into the quiet country church south of San Antonio and started shooting worshippers at the Sunday morning service.

The attack would claim 26 lives, including an unborn baby whose mother also died, and become Texas' deadliest shooting and the worst church shooting in U.S. history.

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The gunfire stopped once Stephen Willeford, a plumber who lives near the church, grabbed his own rifle and took aim at the gunman, hitting him twice. As the gunman fled in his vehicle, Willeford and a passing motorist he flagged down, chased after him.

The gunman took his own life when the chase came to an end.

Madlin Mekelburg is a reporter with the USA Today Network Austin Bureau; she may be reached at 512-479-6606; mmekelburg@elpasotimes.com; @madlinbmek on Twitter.