AUSTIN — Houston McCoy, the police officer who helped stop Charles Whitman's deadly 1966 sniper rampage from atop the University of Texas clock tower that killed 16 people and wounded dozens more, ...

Like bank robberies in the 1920s and violent crimes fueled by the illegal drug trade in the 1980s and early 1990s, active shooter incidents have become one of the biggest challenges for 21st-century ...

Jo Scott-Coe talks about her book, “Unheard Witness,” which tells the story of the life and death of Kathy Leissner Whitman, who was the wife of the man who carried out the 1966 mass shooting from the ...

Editor's note: This article by Sam Kindrick originally appeared in the San Antonio Express on Aug. 2, 1966, one day after the University of Texas Tower shooting. It was one of several to appear on the ...

In November 2001, David Gunby died of lifelong kidney disease in a Fort Worth, Texas hospital. Gunby, 58, became the 17th murder victim of Charles J. Whitman, the monster who put shooting massacres on ...

Texas sniper Charles Whitman's story stands out for many reasons, not least of which being that it features a co-star - the University of Texas Tower from which he fired almost unimpeded for 96 ...

Animation may seem a strange medium for a documentary on Charles Whitman's 1966 shooting from the University of Texas' iconic bell tower, which some have called the nation's first mass shooting. But ...

On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman ascended the University of Texas Tower, in Austin, and in 96 minutes fired 150 high-powered rounds of ammunition down upon an unsuspecting university family.

A look at Charles Whitman's 1966 University of Texas Tower shooting attack, one of the incidents that prompted the creation of SWAT teams. In the second episode of Officer.com's six-episode series, ...