Waddell Buddhist temple shooting

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The Waddell Buddhist Temple Shooting occurred in the early morning of August 10, 1991, when nine people were killed in a mass shooting at Thai Buddhist temple Wat Promkunaram (Thai: วัดพรหมคุณาราม; RTGS: Wat Phrom Khunaram) in Waddell, Arizona, US. Four suspects were arrested soon after the shooting based on a tip from a mentally ill informant who had a history of outlandish claims. Three of the four suspects made false confessions after lengthy interrogations, but the fourth maintained his innocence. These four suspects were exonerated after Johnathan Doody and Allesandro Garcia were arrested, and later found guilty of having committed the murders during a robbery. Doody and Garcia were both sentenced to over 200 years in prison. Doody's conviction was overturned, but he was found guilty after a 2014 retrial. Controversy over the false confessions and other poor handling of the investigation led to the ousting of Sheriff Tom Agnos. At the time, this was the deadliest mass shooting at a...

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