The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By News Ltd
01 January, 1988
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By Gillianne Tedder
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By News Ltd
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By Gillianne Tedder
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By Gillianne Tedder
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By News Ltd
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By Gillianne Tedder
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By Gillianne Tedder
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By News Ltd
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By News Ltd
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By Gillianne Tedder
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By News Ltd
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By News Ltd
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By News Ltd
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By Gillianne Tedder
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By News Ltd
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By News Ltd
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By News Ltd
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By Peter Ward
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By Gillianne Tedder
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
The Queen Street Massacre In Melbourne
By Michael Potter
08 December, 1987

The Queen Street massacre was a spree-killing-suicide that occurred on December 8, 1987 at the Australia Post offices at 191 Queen Street in Melbourne, Australia. The attack resulted in 9 fatalities, including the perpetrator, and 5 injuries. At around 4:00pm, 22-year-old failed law student Frank Vitkovic entered the building carrying a sawn-off M1 carbine rifle concealed inside a brown paper bag, with the intention of killing a former school friend, Con Margellis, who worked there. On entering the fifth floor office where the intended victim worked, Vitkovic pulled out his carbine and began firing indiscriminately at fleeing workers, killing a young woman office worker. The original target Con Margellis escaped unharmed. Vitkovic then moved from floor to floor, walking through office areas picking his targets randomly, shooting some workers at close range execution style as they cowered under their desks, as well as murdering those in the elevators. On the twelfth floor, after his gun was wrestled away from him by an office worker, Vitkovic climbed through a broken window and plunged 11 floors to his death. 


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