Joseph Wesbecker

Joseph Wesbecker

1989 mass shooting in Kentucky, US

📍 Louisville, Kentucky USA

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The Standard Gravure shooting occurred on September 14, 1989, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, when Joseph Thomas Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured twelve at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide. The shooting is the deadliest incident of workplace violence in Kentucky's history as well as the deadliest mass shooting. The murders resulted in a high-profile lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Company, manufacturers of the antidepressant drug Prozac, which Wesbecker had begun taking during the month prior to his shooting rampage.

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