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Charles Whitman was a young man who was a student at the University of Texas. He was known as a good man by many people and had no history of violence. He then began to experience severe headaches , he assaulted his wife, and became involved in numerous fights. He had told his psychiatrist that he was fighting the urge towards even more extreme violent behaviour. On Aug 1, 1966 after killing his wife and mother, he climbed up onto his campus observation tower and with a high-powered rifle he killed 16 people and 32 were injured. The police shot and killed Charles that day during his frenzy. They had performed an autopsy on his body and they found a large tumor that was pressing against his brain.

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