Union High School Massacre

Union High School is located on Union Drive West. It is one of the best quality education schools in Liberty City.

The perpetrators

The shooting was commited by 19 year old Ben Johnson and 18 year old Mark Taylor. Both were in their final year. Both were obsessed with weapons. THey picked the date to honour the 13th aniversary of the Columbine Massacre. During their attack on the school, t hey were fully clad in black clothing and wore trenchcoats. Both were armed to the teeth with a huge arsenal of weapons.

The Shooting

On April 20th, 2012, two students from the school entered the building's main entrance at 10.37. It was recess at the time, so the cafeteria was packed with students. Johnson and Taylor walked straight to the cafeteria. Tey entered at 10.38. Both gunmen opened fire with their 12 gauge shotguns at the students inside. As soon as their shotguns were empty, they tossed them aside. Taylor equipped himself with a semi-auto Tec-9, while Johnson took out two 9mm handguns. They continued to gun down fellow students while laughing and walking around. They stopped shooting at 10.43, when the cafeteria was empty but them and the killed and injured. Johnson and Taylor relocated their shotguns and reloaded them. They left the cafeteria at 10.45, leaving twenty-two dead and seventeen wounded. Meanwhile, the first LCPD officers arrived in front of the school.

The gunmen walked onward through the main hallway and shot out the windows of the congierge's office. They came across a teacher. Taylor shot and killed him. Johnson and Taylor continued their journey through the hallways and fired several rounds into passing classrooms, killing one and injuring four. The gunmen entered the school's library at 10.50, where they immediatly shot the three librarians. Two were killed and one was injured. The gunmen reloaded their weapons. Johnson and Taylor walked upstairs, into the computer area. There they systematically shot students who were hiding under tables. In three minutes time, seven more were killed and an additional five injured.

The gunmen left the library again on 11.00. They roamed the school till 11.35, laughing and shooting. They managed to kill two and injure five more. At around 11:27 they fired a series of rounds at the ambulances outside and retreated furhter into the school. They re-entered the library, where Johnson killed one teacher who had been in hiding. At 11.43, they walked downstairs to the actual library and sat down against a bookshelf. At 11.45 Johnson and Taylor put their weapons to their heads and said farewell. Taylor commited suicide, but Johnson decided not to. Thirty minutes later, at 12.15, NOOSE teams would find Johnson sitting on the same spot, with his dead friend next to him.

The shooting lasted nearly seventy minutes. In that timeperiod, they killed two teachers, three other staff members and thirty students. Taylor's suicide raised the death toll to 36.