The perpetrator, George Hennard, drove his pickup truck through the front window of the restaurant before opening fire, killing 23 people and wounding 27 others.

[4][5] Hennard then began firing from inside the truck while holding Glock 17 and Ruger P89 pistols;[6][7][8] the first victim was veterinarian Michael Griffith.

Having depleted ammunition for one of his weapons and his injuries growing more severe, he fatally shot himself in the head with the final bullet.

[18] Victims of the shootings were:[1][19][7][11] George Pierre Hennard was born on October 15, 1956, in Sayre, Pennsylvania, into a wealthy family.

[11] Hennard's family later moved to New Mexico, where his father worked at the White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces.

[11] Early in the investigation of the massacre, the Killeen police chief said that Hennard "had an evident problem with women for some reason".

[10] Hennard had begun to work at several different jobs, including construction crews in South Dakota and Killeen, while living part-time in Nevada with his mother.

In Texas, he lived in a redbrick colonial home in Belton that his family had purchased in 1980 shortly after moving to Fort Hood.

[11] He sent them a five-page letter in June, part of which read: "Please give me the satisfaction of someday laughing in the face of all those mostly white treacherous female vipers from those two towns [Killeen and Belton] who tried to destroy me and my family" and "You think the three of us can get together some day?

[8] In 1990, Hennard called Isaiah (Ike) R. Williams, a port agent for the national maritime union in Wilmington, California, stating that he needed a letter of recommendation to regain his papers and rejoin the Merchant Marine.

Mary Mead, the clerk of the store, claimed that Hennard had leaned over the counter and said, "I want you to tell everybody, if they don't quit messing around my house, something awful is going to happen.

"[7] A week and a half before the shooting, Hennard collected his paycheck at a concrete company in Copperas Cove and announced he was quitting.

Later that evening, while eating a cheeseburger and french fries outside of Belton, Hennard had a sudden outburst of rage as he watched television coverage of Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings.

Some of the Hennard victims had been constituents of Rep. Chet Edwards, and in response, he abandoned his opposition to a gun control provision that was part of the bill.

[25] Democratic Governor Ann Richards vetoed such bills, but in 1995, her Republican successor, George W. Bush, signed one into force.

)[26] Hupp testified across the country in support of concealed handgun laws, and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1996.

[29] A pink granite memorial stands behind the Killeen Community Center with the date of the event and the names of those killed.