Jacques Lombard

Jacques Hitiura Lombard was a 22 year old French Polynesian who killed 10 people and wounded three others in Hao, French Polynesia, on June 1, 1997, before committing suicide

Murders
Lombard joined the French military base at age 18, and was deployed to a base in Hao. He was reportedly a good soldier, but began to get angry when his superiors would not let him see home. Afterwards, he frequently got into trouble in the base. On the morning of June 1, 1997, another soldier yelled at Lombard for something he did not do, upon which Lombard grabbed an M-16 and killed six sleeping soldiers, and took a seventh hostage. He then began firing at other soldiers from outside the building, wounding one. Soon the barracks were surrounded by soldiers, one officer tried to calm Lombard down, but he responded by shooting the officer and another soldier dead. He afterwards fired at medics who came near the bodies, killing one and wounding one, but did not leave the building. The siege continued for seven hours, and eventually Lombard killed his hostage, and then ran outside the building firing. He wounded one soldier before being severely injured by a burst of gunfire, and afterwards shot himself in the head.