Edmond post office massacre was 30 years ago

[TexasTowelie]

EDMOND — Survivors of the Edmond Post Office massacre and their friends are planning a 30th anniversary memorial ceremony outside the downtown post office where 14 workers were killed.

Next Saturday marks the morning in 1986 when gunman Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a rampage also wounding six others and then taking his own life inside the post office where he worked.

Sherrill, 43, had been reprimanded the previous day for poor job performance.

Sherrill dressed in his postal uniform, entered the post office shortly before 7 a.m. with his mail bag loaded with three guns that left seven female co-workers and seven male co-workers dead.

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[dhill926]

1. so sad...

and if it happened today, it would be worth just a few days on the news cycle...

[TexasTowelie]

2. Yes, it was big news back then

and if I remember correctly where the phrase "going postal" originated.

[shenmue]

5. Yes

[leftofcool]

3. My dad was there that day. I remember it well.

Worked for the Edmond PO for 28 years. He had a really small office in the back and his door was closed where he was under his desk. He died in 1988 of Parkinson's Disease so he won't be there but both of my sisters will be going.

[TexasTowelie]

4. Yikes,

I'm sorry that your father had to deal with the shooting of his co-workers and that this story touched so close to someone on DU.

[leftofcool]

6. He grieved for a long time after that.

He had worked with those guys for years and years. He retired about 6 months after the shooting because of the Parkinsons and he went down hill really fast. I always thought that maybe his grief was a small part of the reason he didn't make it long with the Parkinsons.

[Gman]

7. It's where "going postal" came from.