The Old Salisbury Road murders was a mass murder in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, committed by Michael Charles Hayes (born January 13, 1964) on July 17, 1988. Hayes shot nine people leaving 4 of them dead; his subsequent successful use of the insanity defense in courts created a statewide controversy in the early 1990s.
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