James Maverick

James Maverick was an Australian who killed four people and injured 38 others, six of them seriously, aboard a bus in Perth, Australia, on November 26, 1999, before being arrested.

Murders
That day 19 year old asylum escapee James Maverick boarded a bus in Perth. Several minutes into the trip he suddenly pulled a milk bottle from his backpack, and struck Mrs. Gray. Afterwards he assaulted the bus driver, Ralph Leuther, causing the bus to lose control and crash into a lamppost. The impact fatally injured Antonis Crocaris, and also injured three children. After the crash he drew two revolvers, an axe, and a shovel, and continued his rampage, wildly firing and also beating and hacking passengers as they tried to escape. He fatally wounded one man by shooting him in the chest and legs, fatally hit another on the head with an axe, and fatally injured a toddler by hitting her on the nose and back of the head with a shovel. When police arrived at the scene Maverick resisted arrested and injured a policeman by cutting him on the forehead with an axe before he was subdued and taken back to the mental hospital.

A total of 42 people were brought to the hospital after the attack. Of the injured, 17 were shot, one of them, David Wong Young, died on December 23 from his injuries. The other 16 shot all had minor injuries. Of the 11 people hit with the axe, one of them, died hours later, while four were seriously injured and 6 slightly injured. eight people were also hit with a shovel, and 3 year old died the next day. Of the other seven injured with the shovel, two of them were seriously hurt. Four people were also injured in the crash of the bus, and one of them, died on December 4. The other three injured were a man and a woman hit with a milk bottle, and a woman who suffered a heart attack.



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