Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting
In the early hours on the morning of June 8, 2017, employees at a Weis Markets supermarket in Eaton Township, Pennsylvania, United States, were stocking and closing the store for the night. Shortly before 1:00 a.m., 24-year-old Randy Stair barricaded the exits of the store and proceeded to shoot and kill three of his co-workers before fatally shooting himself.
| Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting | |
|---|---|
Location within PA / United States | |
| Location | Eaton Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 41.5291°N 75.9474°W |
| Date | June 8, 2017 12:57 a.m. – 1:01 a.m. (EDT) |
| Target | Employees at Weis Markets |
Attack type | Murder-suicide, triple-murder, workplace shooting, mass shooting |
| Weapons | Two pistol gripped 12-gauge Mossberg 500 pump-action shotguns |
| Deaths | 4 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 0 |
| Perpetrator | Randy Robert Stair |
| Motive | Belief that he would be reborn as an animated female ghost from Danny Phantom |
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