Mass murders with unusual weapons

I do not know if there were already a topic on this subject, there were many mass murders committed with unusual or unexpected weapons and the majority of them are unknown and some doesn't even have virtual information concerning them.

Robert Kerby K. 1986 - German who killed 2 people and wounded 5 to 10 with a wooden plank in Angoda, Sri Lanka

Alejandro Amigó Vergara 1974 - Chilean who killed 4 people and injured 9 with rocks in Talca, Chile

Khun Sri Supahat 1914 - Thai who killed 1 and injured 15 in Sao Ching Cha, Thailand, he used a knife for the majority of the attacks, but used a lamppost and a plate as well

Marivaldo Teixeira da Silva 2015 - Brazilian who injured 18 people with a chair in Brasília, Brazil inside a school

Maropally ricepounder rampage 1936 - this one is unusually deadly and unusual, a Hindu killed 14 family members and wounded 2 others in Maropally with a ricepounder. This is confusing at least, since the ricepounder is a simple sort of machine, not a handheld object

Cirumput bare hands rampage 1988 - Indonesian women identified as O. L killed 10 children and injured 2 with his bare hands and barefoot

Martin Philip Parkinson 1974 - Australian who killed 1 person and injured 12 with a shovel, a milk bottle. He did also use a car, but he used shovel for the majority of the attacks

Sources: Amok Wiki

I don't know many with weapons as unusual as the one's above, but I know of a couple interesting firearm/ammunition choices;

An unknown Soviet border guard killed 10 and wounded 13 at workers vacation camp with explosive bullets.

Matthew J. Murray attacked New Life's Church with a .223 Bushmaster XM-15, which he had modified to fire the slightly larger 6.8mm round.

John Zawhari was armed with a homemade AR-15, constructed from various parts bought online, and an old school cap-and-ball muzzleloading revolver

Sebastian Bosse used a sawn off .22 , a sawn off percussion rifle, a cap lock pistol, and homemade explosives, including smoke bombs. Predictably, he wasn't able to kill a single person except for himself, although he was able to wound 5 with his gunfire and 16 with his smokebombs.

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John Zawhari was armed with a homemade AR-15, constructed from various parts bought online, and an old school cap-and-ball muzzleloading revolver

Just want to point out that John's revolver was apparently converted to fire regular bullets, most likely .45 caliber bullets.

First murderer who came in my mind after reading title was of course...


Walter Seifert.

He killed 10 people (including 8 children aged 9-12) with a homemade flamethrower, lance and mace. He also injured 22 more people, and then killed himself.

What's even worse, children victims died of burns in the following days of the massacre, so imagine the pain they were going through before their deaths. Everytime I read about it, it gives me goosebumps. Shooters like Lanza or Hamilton at least killed those kids fastly, without too much pain. But burning kids alive is another level of bestiality.

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First murderer who came in my mind after reading title was of course...


Walter Seifert.

He killed 10 people (including 8 children aged 9-12) with a homemade flamethrower, lance and mace. He also injured 22 more people, and then killed himself.

What's even worse, children victims died of burns in the following days of the massacre, so imagine the pain they were going through before their deaths. Everytime I read about it, it gives me goosebumps. Shooters like Lanza or Hamilton at least killed those kids fastly, without too much pain. But burning kids alive is another level of bestiality.

Yeah, Walter was extremely gruesome.

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First murderer who came in my mind after reading title was of course...


Walter Seifert.

He killed 10 people (including 8 children aged 9-12) with a homemade flamethrower, lance and mace. He also injured 22 more people, and then killed himself.

What's even worse, children victims died of burns in the following days of the massacre, so imagine the pain they were going through before their deaths. Everytime I read about it, it gives me goosebumps. Shooters like Lanza or Hamilton at least killed those kids fastly, without too much pain. But burning kids alive is another level of bestiality.

Something similar happened in 2017 in Janaúba, Brazil, a night watchman named Damiao Soares dos Santos poured gasoline on himself and on the children and set them and himself on fire. He killed 10 children aged 4 and 5 and 3 other people of the school. Very brutal. Seifert very brutal and gruesome also.

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He killed 10 people (including 8 children aged 9-12) with a homemade flamethrower, lance and mace. He also injured 22 more people, and then killed himself.

He killed himself by swallowing a shit ton of insecticide too. That's pretty shitty way to die.

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He killed 10 people (including 8 children aged 9-12) with a homemade flamethrower, lance and mace. He also injured 22 more people, and then killed himself.

He killed himself by swallowing a shit ton of insecticide too. That's pretty shitty way to die.

Yeah, and it took him 1 day to die which makes it worse.

Christopher Krumm, who used a compound bow and a knife during his attacks.
Max Porta, who attacked his school in Barcelona with a homemade crossbow.

Betai Koffi: pencil and landscape light. (not included: truck)

Stephen Balliet and his homemade guns. They really fucking sucked.

A man named Randy Rodriguez Santos killed 4 homeless people with a 13 pound piece of construction metal. This happened in NYC’s Chinatown district on October 5th, 2019.

A 38-year-old man named Nicolae Lungu killed 7 people and injured 6 others with a metal infusion stand at a hospital in Romania.

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A 38-year-old man named Nicolae Lungu killed 7 people and injured 6 others with a metal infusion stand at a hospital in Romania.

Reminds me of this case in Portugal in 1911, where a man used a crutch to "mortally injure" nine people in the Asilo dos Entrevados in Braga, Portugal.

Also, I see that you mentioned David Cedric Morgan in the mass stabbings thread. This popped a question in my mind: Did you see my thread on Morgan? Just curious haha.

Enesbrietchvonfrederitch wrote:

Also, I see that you mentioned David Cedric Morgan in the mass stabbings thread. This popped a question in my mind: Did you see my thread on Morgan? Just curious haha.

I did not.

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Enesbrietchvonfrederitch wrote:

Also, I see that you mentioned David Cedric Morgan in the mass stabbings thread. This popped a question in my mind: Did you see my thread on Morgan? Just curious haha.

I did not.

Oh, I see.

Also, I have two news examples of unusual weapons:

Edson da Silva: used a piece of wood to knock out most of his victims, then set fire to the bodies, killing six;

Esker Washington Gibson: used a chair to knock out his wife, then set fire to his house, killing six.

A schizophrenic Chinese man named Yang Shitou broke free from his room in a mental hospital and stabbed 4 women with a chopstick, killing 3. That’s the most Chinese weapon I’ve ever heard of.

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A schizophrenic Chinese man named Yang Shitou broke free from his room in a mental hospital and stabbed 4 women with a chopstick, killing 3. That’s the most Chinese weapon I’ve ever heard of.

It could be funny if it wasn't tragic!

I know this weapon is not unusual, but I would like to mention Edmundo do Nascimento Rosa, since he is one of the few Brazilians who actually managed to do a bomb attack, if I might say, right?

His homemade bombs consisted of eletric motors of fridges and vehicles and he obtained dynamite sticks in the city of Lins. Another of his bomb consisted of a electric iron connected to an outlet over a can filled with gasoline. Benearth, they found two sticks of dynamite.

I think a Brazilian using this method of murder is highly unusual, and purchasing explosive materials in Brazil (I don't know specific laws) is amazingly easy, yet people do not chose this method. Sorry if I might sound biased about this.

A 28-year-old man named Kuang Xi killed one child and injured five others by hurling them out of a third story window.

Not mass murderers, but I would like to mention those weapons used in assassinations, and single murders:

Assassin of Agathocles of Syracuse: murdered him with a poisoned toothpick;

Luigi Lucheni: stabbed Empress Elizabeth of Austria with a thin file, which pierced her pericardium and a lung. She did not realize what had happened and walked for a while, then collapsed;

In Early 1903 an unnamed person was beaten to death with a Bible by a Kahuna during a healing ceremony gone wrong in Honolulu;

Brad Davis: Altough not an intentional murderer, I think he deserves a mention since he killed the victim during a fight. Denver Lee St. Clair was killed by an atomic wedgie by his stepson Davis. After he had been knocked unconscious, the elastic band from his torn underwear was pulled over his head and stretched around his neck, strangling him.

Source: List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

Two family killers who used crossbows (which aren't a common weapon) are Hideaki Nozu and Brett Ryan.

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Two family killers who used crossbows (which aren't a common weapon) are Hideaki Nozu and Brett Ryan.

also Marcos Gregorio

I saw this massacre committed in Ancient Greece by a man named Cleomedes in the masskillers subreddit and was interested by it. I don't know how much of it is true actually, but is in some other websites in the Internet. While searching the case, I found a website who appears to be reliable so I will quote what they said:

"Cleomedes of the island Astypalaea, an athlete, of whom Pausanias and Plutarch record the following legend: — In Ol. 72 (492 BCE) he killed Iccus, his opponent, in a boxing-umatch, at the Olympic games, and the judges (Ἑλλανοδίκαι) decided that he had been guilty of unfair play, and punished him with the loss of the prize. Stung to madness by the disgrace, he returned to Astypalaea, and there in his frenzy he shook down the pillar which supported the roof of a boys' school, crushing all who were in it beneath the ruins.

The Astypalaeans preparing to stone him, he fled for refuge to the temple of Athena, and got into a chest, which his pursuers, having vainly attempted to open it, at length broke to pieces; but no Cleomedes was there. They sent accordingly to consult the Delphic oracle, and received the following answer:

ὕπατος ἡρώων Κλεομήδης Ἀστυπαλαιεύς
ὅν θυσίαις τιμᾶθ᾽ ὡς μηκέτι θνητὸν ἐόντα.
"Last of heroes is Cleomedes of Astypalaea;
Honor him with sacrifices as being no longer a mortal."
From that moment on the Astypalaeans venerated him as a hero."

Numbers of fatal victims: 60+
Weapon method: deliberately causing a collapse with bare hands.

Source: Pantheon - Encyclopedia Mythica

David Ali Sonboly used an activated theatre prop gun to carry out his attack. I know that guns are extremely common weapons in attacks but an gun that is an activated theatre prop is pretty rare.

Guilherme taucci and luis de Castro. I found the use of axes and bows unusual, I had not seen many cases with these weapons before, especially shootings.

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David Ali Sonboly used an activated theatre prop gun to carry out his attack. I know that guns are extremely common weapons in attacks but an gun that is an activated theatre prop is pretty rare.

The gun was an authentic Glock pistol that was deactivated (aka made unusable) to be used as a prop and then reactivated by a black market dealer.

Enesbrietchvonfrederitch wrote:

I do not know if there were already a topic on this subject, there were many mass murders committed with unusual or unexpected weapons and the majority of them are unknown and some doesn't even have virtual information concerning them.

Robert Kerby K. 1986 - German who killed 2 people and wounded 5 to 10 with a wooden plank in Angoda, Sri Lanka

Alejandro Amigó Vergara 1974 - Chilean who killed 4 people and injured 9 with rocks in Talca, Chile

Khun Sri Supahat 1914 - Thai who killed 1 and injured 15 in Sao Ching Cha, Thailand, he used a knife for the majority of the attacks, but used a lamppost and a plate as well

Marivaldo Teixeira da Silva 2015 - Brazilian who injured 18 people with a chair in Brasília, Brazil inside a school

Maropally ricepounder rampage 1936 - this one is unusually deadly and unusual, a Hindu killed 14 family members and wounded 2 others in Maropally with a ricepounder. This is confusing at least, since the ricepounder is a simple sort of machine, not a handheld object

Cirumput bare hands rampage 1988 - Indonesian women identified as O. L killed 10 children and injured 2 with his bare hands and barefoot

Martin Philip Parkinson 1974 - Australian who killed 1 person and injured 12 with a shovel, a milk bottle. He did also use a car, but he used shovel for the majority of the attacks

Sources: Amok Wiki

Queen Street massacre, the shooter had the most horrendously sawed-off rifle that I have ever seen, such a shame to see a perfectly good M1 go to waste.

Dylan Quick used an X-Acto knife and a scalpel (wounded 14.)
Satoru Umeta used a foldable handsaw with boxcutter blades attached to it to attack a J-pop idol group (3 wounded.)
Anton Lundin Pettersson used a sword (killed 3, wounded 1.)
Joel Otto Aukusti Marin also used a sword, seeminly inspired by Pettersson (1 killed, 9 wounded.) He was also considering using a chainsaw.
Muhaydin Mire used a blunt 3-inch bread knife (wounded 3, somehow.)
Mohamed Barry used a machete (wounded 4.)
Valentin Doroshenko used this abomination of a ghost gun (more pictures here and here.) (Killed 2, wounded 3.)
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi used the infernal machine, a weapon of his own design (18 killed and 22 injured.)

Henry Bello used an AR-15 with no pistol grip or sights on it. It looked pretty weird in my opinion.

IIRC, Mikail Pivnev used an air rifle in his attack. That was sure to go well for him.

Not a mass murder and might not even a murder, but since the topic is about "Unusual weapons", I thought adding that:

For some reason I decided to search "Man kills with penis" on Google and found one Richard Henry Patterson, who was arrested in 2015 over the death of his 60-year-old female companion during an oral sex session. Initially they suspected he strangled her, but him and his lawyers wanted to show his penis to the jury, saying it was too hard. His defense said he accidentally choked her when she was making oral satisfactions on his genitals. One article from 2017 says he was acquitted. Had he been convicted he would have gotten life sentence.

Sources: Sun Sentinel and Heavy

Enesbrietchvonfrederitch wrote:

Not a mass murder and might not even a murder, but since the topic is about "Unusual weapons", I thought adding that:

For some reason I decided to search "Man kills with penis" on Google and found one Richard Henry Patterson, who was arrested in 2015 over the death of his 60-year-old female companion during an oral sex session. Initially they suspected he strangled her, but him and his lawyers wanted to show his penis to the jury, saying it was too hard. His defense said he accidentally choked her when she was making oral satisfactions on his genitals. One article from 2017 says he was acquitted. Had he been convicted he would have gotten life sentence.

Sources: Sun Sentinel and Heavy

I'm not sure whether that would be the best or worst way to die.

Fan Jieming (2013 Shanghai shooting) beat someone to death with a metal pipe.

The suzano school shooters in addition to a .38 caliber taurus model 85 they used a hatchet a bow and crossbow
Minecraft style

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Dylan Quick used an X-Acto knife and a scalpel (wounded 14.)

His weapons make it sound like he was a surgeon gone psycho lol! But I do find that case very interesting. Wish there was more info on it.

Valentin Doroshenko used a homemade gun to kill 2 police officers and injure 3 others. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

And eric harris originally planned to make a napalm flamethrower and made a napalm suicide belt type device he refers to as his bandolier in the basement tapes but for what ever reason didn't use it during the massacre

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Valentin Doroshenko used a homemade gun to kill 2 police officers and injure 3 others. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Jeez that looks like a harpoon and one of those underwater aks had a kid

James Kiser, as 1886 school stabber, brought rocks with him along with a knife, presumably to throw.
I'm suprised this isn't the only rock-involved killing in this thread.

Na Teck Ker (1999, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Yoke Kuan) used a parang, an unusual kind of knife.
A 14 year old girl (2011 Escuela Intermedia José D. Choudens stabbing) injured 37 students with a hypodermic needle.
Sicelo Dlamini (Ncabaneni High School, 2009) used a spear. I don't even know how you would do that.
Did he stab people like a sword, or throw then retrieve, throw then retrieve?

Kuang Xi (Hongqiao Primary School, 2007) didn't even need a weapon. He just threw 6 kids out a window. The only more minimalist attack method than that is bare fists.
Alexander Kuzminykh (Russian submarine Vepr K-157, 1998) killed a security guard with a chisel before stealing his AKS-74U assault rifle. He also threatened to detonate the submarine's torpedoes, which would've apparently caused "a nuclear catastrophe ... a second Chernobyl." If he had, he might've been the highest-killing spree shooter of all time.
Not entirely what you're asking, but around 6 months before the 2016 Nice truck attack, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel attacked a motorist with a wooden board.

also james holmes used tear gas in the 2012 arorua colorado shooting

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Kuang Xi (Hongqiao Primary School, 2007) didn't even need a weapon. He just threw 6 kids out a window. The only more minimalist attack method than that is bare fists.

See also: Mass killers that killed people with their bare hands

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See also: Mass killers that killed people with their bare hands

Interesting read, thank you. Just goes to show that no matter what, disturbed enough individuals will find ways to kill, even without guns, knifes, or gasoline.

Kumajiro Takazawa (1912) used a spear as well as a rifle
Keisuke Takeuchi (1949) killed 6 and wounded 20 by crashing a train.
Kiichiro Nakamura (1954) killed 8 and wounded 3 with a hoe.
Mamoru Kurihara (1975) killed 1 and wounded 11 with a steel pipe.
Hideaki Nozu (2020) killed 1 and wounded 3 with a crossbow.
My personal favorite is Seong Byung-dae's weapons (2016). These epitomes of homemade guns wounded 2 and killed 1 police officer: he apparently had 17 homemade guns, seven knives, a hammer, and a homemade explosive device at the crime scene.
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Li Han-no (Tokyo, 1921) used a stone hammer to kill 8 and wound 9.
Lee Chi Hang (Sham Shui Po, 1982) used two knives and two chisels to kill 6 and wound 37.
Huang Yachun (Honghua, 1990) used a stick, three-edged knife to kill 7 and injure 19.
Li Xianliang (Yuanshi County) used a bucket loader, crowbar, and brick to kill 17 and wound 20.
A man named Kong (Kaiyuan kindergarten, 2019) wounded 54 with sodium hydroxide.
An unnamed man in South Korea in 2007 attacked a South Chungcheong park with homemade guns made of iron pipes and wooden sticks taken from a nearby construction site. I haven't been able to locate any more details on the case, though.

Arvi Lehtikoski killed his family with a razor.
Éric Borel used a baseball bat (in addition to a .22-caliber hunting rifle and a hammer.)
An unnamed young man (Montreal, 1968) wounded 16 with a two inch pen knife (could you not find a better weapon?)

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(could you not find a better weapon?)

I know this isn't what you are looking for, but I remember an utterly fabulous fictional mass murder story that involved an Chinese man who used an motorcycle helmet to injure 13 people in China in 1976. The description of his attack has to be one of the most hilarious thing I ever saw on Internet:

"In 1976, when the guests were sleeping, Liu got up of his bed, put an blunt motorcycle helmet on his head, and began headbutting sleeping guests, causing some to lose their consciousness. After wounding thirteen people, he died after he had an stroke from the impacts on the sleeping people."

Source: Liu Penqan

Also, this site contains some very fantasist mass murder fictional stories with absurd number of deaths, it becomes unintentionally hilarious

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"In 1976, when the guests were sleeping, Liu got up of his bed, put an blunt motorcycle helmet on his head, and began headbutting sleeping guests, causing some to lose their consciousness. After wounding thirteen people, he died after he had an stroke from the impacts on the sleeping people."

If I read that on Amok Wiki, I wouldn't even question it, considering the use of chopsticks, bare hands, hypodermic needles, and bricks.
Fictional Amok Wiki is a strange site and I'm not 100% sure I'm wrapping my head around it.

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Enesbrietchvonfrederitch wrote:

"In 1976, when the guests were sleeping, Liu got up of his bed, put an blunt motorcycle helmet on his head, and began headbutting sleeping guests, causing some to lose their consciousness. After wounding thirteen people, he died after he had an stroke from the impacts on the sleeping people."

If I read that on Amok Wiki, I wouldn't even question it, considering the use of chopsticks, bare hands, hypodermic needles, and bricks.
Fictional Amok Wiki is a strange site and I'm not 100% sure I'm wrapping my head around it.

Agreed. Amok Wiki has some very strange weapons. I remember a man using something like a gym weight to kill his family members.

Also, Fictional Amok has another gem:

"During the morning of October 6, 1991, a schizophrenic Nigerien intruded an book corridor with a machete, and struck down several elderly women and men, killing up to 9 people, and injuring 6 others, before being killed by a heart attack. He left a note, written in Korean, with nonsense words.

Note

(I don't know if I can copypaste Korean characters here, so I will leave it empty.)

A rough translation:

"Can you cook with me? I will kill everyone. Hue Hue Hue What do I do now in Ai Cha Cha Bu Ramakan? Marou Amadou also! It would be nice if I could do that. That's right. Because the universe performs its mission under the pressure of bad insanity. It is destroying humanity, suggesting your body, and taking it. This is through a complete understanding of the bad character.""

Source: 1991 Niger slashing