European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 18, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3killer fits Ever growing stereotype i  he kind of frustration required to take 22 lives does t accumulate overnight a professor Jack Levin Boston apr the Man who killed 22 people in a Texas eatery May be an increasingly familiar Type in America experts say a loner Seething with pent up anger and ready to Fly into a Homicidal rage. Jack Levin a sociology professor at Bostons northeastern University and coauthor of mass murder America s growing menace said wednesday that such killers usually have led lives of desperation. A the kind of frustration required to take 22 lives does no to accumulate overnight a Levin said. A you done to get a a do on your report card and then kill 22  shortly after noon wednesday George Hennard 35, of Belton Texas drove his pickup truck through the window of a crowded cafeteria in nearby Killeen and began methodically shooting people with a High powered pistol. He shot himself to death after killing 22 people and wounding nearly two dozen others. It was the deadliest mass shooting in . History surpassing the july 18,1984, slayings in san Ysidro calif., when James Oliver Huberty opened fire at a Mcdonald a restaurant killing 21 before he was fatally shot by police. Levin and his co author James Fox also of northeastern said the killers in almost every such Case were sent into a Homicidal rage by a triggering event. A a it a usually a loss. Whether the loss of a Job or a relationship from the killers Point of View its catastrophic its the last Straw a Levin said. Huberty was an out of work Security guard. Pat Sherrill was a postal worker about to lose his Job when he shot 14 people to death in an Edmond okla., Post office in 1986. Neighbors said Hennard was an unfriendly loner who had frightened people by running in front of their cars and making strange phone Calls. One rambling letter he wrote to two Young women referred to a mostly White treacherous female vipers he said had tried to destroy him and his family. A these Guys have no place to turn when they get into trouble a Levin said. A they done to have friends and family Church and fraternal groups to support them to get them through the bad  Fox and Levin said Many of the killers target people they know and kill others who get in the Way. But some As Hen Nard appeared to do just kill at random. The Best known of those was Charles Whitman a student who shot and killed 16 people from a Campus Tower at the University of Texas in 1966. Typically a person who kills a group of strangers a might think there a a wide ranging conspiracy against him a Fox said. Levin said that a the More random the massacre the More Likely it is the killer is insane delusional and  fitting that Type would be Marc Lerinc who killed 14 students at the University of Montreal in 1989, seeking revenge against feminists. Levin said Hennard May have been just such a person. Witnesses said he yelled a this is what Bell county has done to me a before he staffed shooting. A Bell county is an abstraction a Levin said. A when you linear about a random Public massacre to to link the person is paranoid and is conspiratorial in his thinking. He thinks Large numbers of people Are out to get him and he seeks  a Karl Gude Jett Magness. Cynthia Greer Stan Kohler Reid Brown and Alan based Narmy town rocked just As recovery from War neared from wire reports Killeen Texas a when War came in the Middle East this army town in Central Texas was Quick to respond. Soldiers from nearby fort Hood were some of the first to leave and last to return. Now the horror that one usually secs Only in War has struck Home. Twenty two people were killed by a single gunman wednesday As they ate lunch at a local cafeteria a More than the number of fort Hood soldiers killed in operation desert storm. Officials at fort Hood confirmed that the Only Active duty member of the army killed in the massacre was it. Col. Steven c. Dody 43, a decorated Vietnam War Veteran and a former commander of one of fort hoods airfields. Dody who had served on Active duty for More than 20 years was scheduled to retire at the end of the month. A i done to know How much More this town can take a said a stunned resident who saw blood on the sidewalk outside Lubye a cafeteria when the wounded were carried out. A the War had drained us and something like this happens when we Are just starting to recover. A because so Many soldiers left the area to fight in the persian Gulf the Economy of the area went into a tailspin during the War. The Killeen fort Hood Coppe Ras Cove area with a population of about 125,000, was just beginning to emerge from that economic disaster when George Hennard an unemployed resident of nearby Belton drove his pickup truck through the front door of the cafeteria and Ocean to open fire. As terrible As such incidents Are said police chief . Giacomozzi they tend to pull a towns residents together. Killeen grew from a sleepy Railroad crossing into a City of 45,000 with the development 50 years ago of fort Hood now the nations largest army Post. Killeen in Bell county is Between Dallas and Houston. Its about 60 Miles North of Austin the state capital. The Killeen chamber of Commerce Sells the Community As featuring Low taxes Low Cost of living excellent schools regional medical facilities and a highly skilled labor Force. Downtown Killeen is a collection of surplus stores Pawn shops and retail outlets Many operated by koreans whose families moved to the City after the korean War. The City a Economy is closely tied to the army Post