Colin Ferguson (born January 14, 1958) is a mass murderer who was convicted of murdering six people and injuring nineteen others on the Long Island Rail Road in Garden City, New York.
On December 7, 1993, as the train pulled into the Merillon Avenue Station, Ferguson pulled out his gun and started firing at passengers. He killed six and wounded nineteen before being stopped by three of the passengers: Kevin Blum, Mark McEntee and Mike O'Connor. Ferguson's trial was notable for a number of unusual developments, including his firing of his defense counsel and insisting on representing himself and questioning his own victims on the stand.
Ferguson was convicted on February 17, 1995, of murder for the deaths of the six passengers who died of their injuries. He was also convicted of attempted murder for wounding nineteen passengers. As of 2013, he is serving his sentence of 315 years and 8 months to life at the Upstate Correctional Facility in Franklin County, New York.[1] His earliest possible parole date is August 6, 2309.[2]
Colin Ferguson was born in Kingston, Jamaica
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Ferguson_(mass_murderer)
accessed on 22/02/2013 14:18
This year Christopher Dorner became the second infamous "Mass Murderer" of Afrikan descent in the USA. It is worth pointing out that both men sited ongoing racism as a contributory factor in their mental ill-health, which led to them taking the lives of others. Neither tried to deny their crime if a crime it be. The intolerable pressure placed on Afrikans in the West makes it quite amazing that more of us haven't taken similar action. As Leonardo DeCaprio's character in Django Unchained stated, if white people had been treated as brutally by another group of people they would have killed them all at the very first opportunity.
Our inbreed compassion has usually led to us internalising our pain and when it eventually surfaces we do harm to members of our own families.
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