Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Holiday Inn Sniper Michael Soles

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August 11, 1976 Holiday Inn Sniper Michael Soles Mass shooting in downtown Wichita on Aug. 11, 1976.  Michael Soles, a 19-year-old teenage unemployed welder dumped by his girlfriend, chose the top of a Holiday Inn in Wichita to set up a sniper position and shoot and kill three people while wounding eight others.

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250 Douglas Place - Wikipedia August 1976, Michael Soles, an unemployed welder from Sand Springs, Oklahoma, set up a sniper position on the roof of the Holiday Inn Plaza, as the building was then named. Over the course of an eleven-minute shooting spree, he killed 3 and wounded 6. The gunman was wounded by police and taken into custody.[3]
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www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article148363339.htmlMay 3, 2017 - The man who carried out a mass shooting from atop a downtown Wichita high-rise more than 40 years ago is up for parole for the fifth time. Michael Soles, known in Wichita as the Holiday Inn sniper, was a teenager when the rode an elevator to the hotel that capped the 26-floor ...
www.kansas.com/news/local/article94921102.htmlAug 10, 2016 - Forty years ago, police Lt. Mike Hill helped stop a sniper shooting from the 26th ...Michael Soles, the sniper, had chosen his killing perch on the ...
www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article148375559.htmlMay 3, 2017 - 15, 1986, includes Michael Soles' first media interview after he carried out a massshooting in downtown Wichita on Aug. 11, 1976.
https://www.usnews.com/.../holiday-inn-sniper-michael-soles-up-for-parole-again
May 7, 2017 - (AP) — A sniper who terrorized downtown Wichita more than 40 years ago is going ... Seven others were wounded before police shot Soles.


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