CBS News - Luby's Cafeteria massacre - 1991-10-16
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[0:04] This is a CBS News special report from
[0:08] CBS News headquarters in New York. Here
[0:10] is Dan Rather.
[0:12] >> Good day. First pictures are in from
[0:14] Colleen, Texas. That's a town of about
[0:17] 45,000 in central Texas where today
[0:21] there was an attack at a restaurant
[0:22] resulting in 17 deaths. A man drove his
[0:25] truck into the window of a cafeteria and
[0:28] began shooting people inside. First
[0:30] reports say that 17 people have been
[0:33] killed. Other details are lacking. Uh
[0:37] that one witness said a guy drove a
[0:39] truck through the glass window, yell
[0:40] something, and started shooting. Within
[0:43] minutes, if not seconds, 17 people were
[0:46] dead. These are the first photographs
[0:49] from the scene. who the man was, what
[0:52] his motive for the shooting uh may have
[0:54] been or all unanswered questions. In
[0:57] addition to the 17 reported killed, at
[1:00] least 15 people were wounded. Colleen,
[1:03] Texas is adjacent to what used to be
[1:05] called Camp Hood. In more recent years
[1:07] have been called Fort Hood. Um a major
[1:10] training area particularly for armored
[1:12] troops of the US Army, the cafeteria. Uh
[1:16] this attack happened about 12:40 p.m.
[1:20] Central time. The cafeteria was
[1:22] frequented especially by older people as
[1:26] very large