KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) - Thirty-four years ago, on October 16, 1991, a Central Texas man killed nearly two dozen people and wounded dozens more at the Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen.
Georges Hennard, 35, of Belton, drove his pickup truck through a plate-glass window at the restaurant, got out and opened fire with a pair of semi-automatic pistols.
Police said that over the course of 14 minutes, Hennard shot 50 people, 22 of whom died at the scene and one of whom died later.
The shootout ended after a Killeen police officer shot and wounded Hennard, who then shot himself to death.
Police later said Hennard had two fully loaded ammunition clips with him when he died and said if the officer had not shot him, the death toll would have been higher.
Earlier in 1991, Hennard had filed a bogus com