SFGATE: Student hid like grandfather did in 1949 mass shooting

Student hid like grandfather did in 1949 mass shooting
Published on February 16, 2018 at 06:13PM by
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A student who survived the shooting at a Florida school hid in a closet — just like her grandfather did to escape a 1949 shooting rampage in New Jersey. Carly Novell tweeted a photo and said she hid in a closet just like her grandfather, Charles Cohen, did nearly 70 years ago when he was 12 and a gunman killed his family. Howard Unruh gunned down 13 people, including Cohen's parents and paternal grandmother, during what was called his "Walk of Death" through Camden. Diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, he spent the rest of his life in a state psychiatric hospital. He confessed to the killings but was never tried. He died in 2009.
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