This Day in History: The infamous Zerox Murders occurred on this day in 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Service technician Byran Koji Uyesugi shot at eight people; wounding seven fatally (six co-workers and his supervisor). This was the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii. "Uyegusi surrendered in the mountains around Honolulu five hours later, and pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity – claiming that he felt like an outcast at work, and that he was scared that his co-workers were conspiring to have him fired. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole, and is now held at a facility in Mississippi, due to inadequate accommodations for a prisoner in isolation at Halawa Correctional Facility. The Xerox building was abandoned after the shooting, and was not used until 2004, when producers of the television series Lost built a sound stage there to film indoor scenes."~Megan Shute
The worst killing in my state, North Carolina, occurred on Christmas Day in 1929. "On Christmas in 1929, tobacco farmer Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children. The only survivor was his eldest son, 16-year-old Arthur, whom he had sent on an errand just before committing the crime. Lawson then went into the woods and shot himself. Not long after the family was annihilated, Lawson's brother Marion turned the murder house into a tourist attraction. A raisin cake Lawson's wife Marie had baked for Christmas dinner was displayed on the tour and visitors would take raisins as souvenirs until the cake was eventually protected with glass. No explanation ever surfaced for the sudden familicide. Sole survivor Arthur died in a car accident 16 years later at age 32."~Amber Garrett
This murder was turned into a song in 1956.
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