Citation

Lester D, Stack S, Schmidtke A, Schaller S, Muller I. Crisis 2005; 26(4): 184-187.

Affiliation

Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona 08240-0195, USA. lesterd@stockton.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Publisher Hogrefe Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16485844

Abstract

A study of 98 lone, rampage killers in the United States from 1949 to 1999 found that those who were killed by police officers killed and wounded more victims than those who completed suicide who, in turn, killed or wounded more victims than those who were captured. Those rampage killers who completed suicide were less likely to be judged schizophrenic and more likely to be killing present or former co-workers.