Patrick Sherrill
Patrick Henry Sherrill (November 13, 1941 – August 20, 1986) was a United States Postal Service employee who shot twenty co-workers in Edmond, Oklahoma, killing fourteen of them, before committing suicide.
Sherrill's attack was the third worst single-gunman mass murder in U.S. history at the time. It is credited with inspiring the American phrase "going postal".
Read more about Patrick Sherrill: The Attack, Possible Motives
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