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🗓️ 26 June 2023
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders 15 miles away. |
0:02.6 | When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
0:13.0 | Today's story is a short one, one where not a lot of extra information is known, but where the victim count was significant. |
0:24.3 | On June 26, 1994, a man was humiliated at a wedding and decided to take his anger out on the woman who denied him, and 25 other guests. |
0:37.1 | So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start |
0:41.4 | your day with a morning cup of murder. On June 26, 1994 in Kampala, Uganda, a man named Richard |
0:50.4 | Kamakesh, was attending a wedding and asked a young woman, Irene Ati, to dance with him. |
0:57.4 | A private in the Ugandan military police, Richard was taken aback when Irene declined his offer. |
1:04.4 | Hoping to change her mind, he continued to insist that she allow him to dance with her, |
1:09.8 | and at some point, his polite |
1:12.2 | requests turned aggressive, so much so that other guests had to separate the pair. |
1:19.0 | Richard became irate and was thrown out of the wedding before things could get any worse. |
1:24.5 | They had no idea that the scorned man wasn't going to allow himself to go down quietly. |
1:31.0 | Drunk and absolutely furious, he went and got a semi-automatic rifle, returned to the wedding, |
1:38.0 | and just ten minutes after being ejected, opened fire on the celebration. The first to die was the woman who rejected him. |
1:47.2 | Then, with his target dealt with, |
1:50.0 | Richard began shooting randomly at the other guests |
1:52.6 | and caused the immediate death of at least 13 other individuals. |
1:58.1 | Twelve more wedding guests died while in the hospital |
2:00.7 | and an additional 13 were seriously |
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