Killed

• Margaret Whitman, killed in her apartment
• Kathy Whitman, killed while she slept
• Edna Townsley, receptionist
• Marguerite Lamport, killed by shotgun on stairs
• Mark Gabour, killed by shotgun on stairs
• Thomas Eckman, shoulder, kneeling over Claire Wilson
• Robert Boyer, back, visiting physics professor
• Thomas Ashton, chest, Peace Corps trainee°
• Thomas Karr, spine
• Billy Speed, Police officer
• Harry Walchuk, doctoral student and father of six
• Paul Sonntag, mouth, 18, hiding behind construction
• Claudia Rutt, teenager killed helping fiancé Sonntag°
• Roy Schmidt, electrician shot outside his truck
• Karen Griffith, lung, 17, died after week in hospital°

° Survived the initial shooting and later died in hospital
* Claire Wilson's unborn child was originally listed

Wounded

° Gunby survived the initial shooting but required life-long dialysis as a result of his injuries. More than 30 years after the shooting, he announced he was quitting dialysis and died within a week as a result. The coroner ruled his death a homicide

One of the most well known school shooters in American history was Charles Whitman.  With a tested IQ of 138, Whitman was an eagle scout at age 12 and later became a sharpshooter in the Marines in 1959.  In 1964 he was honorably discharged and in 1966 he met with a doctor after he was concerned about his mental health. 

He said, “I am prepared to die.  After my death, I wish an autopsy on me to be preformed to see if there is any mental disorder.”

On July 31, 1966 he stabbed his mother to death.  He then killed his wife.  He left a note “I imagine it appears that I brutally killed both of my loved ones.  I was only trying to do a quick thorough job…”

The following day Whitman went to the Bell Tower at the University of Texas where he killed 16 people and wounded 30.  He was stopped when police officers stormed the tower and shot him.