Rage against the machine. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

At 8 a.m. in Honolulu the day was just starting at the biggest Xerox corporate

headquarters in Hawaii. Nobody realized that in a matter of minutes this ordinary

morning would begin the worst mass shooting in Hawaiian history. Today we're

talking about the 1999 Honolulu shootings also known as the Xerox murders. Born in

1959, Byron Osugi lived in the Nuanu neighborhood of Honolulu. While in high

school, Osugi became a member of his high school's rifle team, its army JROTC

chapter. Classmates called him a quiet student who was never much trouble. In

1997, Osugi crashed his father's car while driving home from a

graduation party. Hitting his head on the windshield, Osugi suffered a head

injury from an accident and, according to his brother Dennis, was never the same.

But life went on. Osugi lived a fairly normal life in the years after his injury. In 1984,

he becomes a Xerox technician, a steady job that afforded him the stability of his life, his

family. It was a good fit for his active inquisitive mind. Osugi gets married and in 1996

has a daughter. According to friends, Osugi was fiery and withdrawn with a rich inner life and

had lots of hobbies. The two biggest hobbies of his might surprise you, or not. Osugi loved

collecting and breeding rare goldfish and koi, which he would sell to local pet stores.

His other hobby was guns, lots of guns. In 1999, Osugi had 25 guns registered in his name,

dating back to 1982, and later police would recover 11 handguns, five rifles, and two shot

guns of Osugi from his father's residence. But let's jump back a little bit. According to

testimony from Osugi's father, hero Yuki, Osugi was normal until he started working as a service

technician for Xerox in 1984. That wasn't a good fit, according to his father. Then when

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