![]() ![]() None of the other victims had ever had trouble with him. Unruh's keeping his bedroom radio turned high in to the late night hours. ![]() He and his wife had had frequent sharp arguments over the Unruhs' use of a gate that separates their back yard from the Cohens'. Cohen was a druggist with a shop at 3702 River Road in East Camden. Maurice Cohen, who lived next door to him. His resentment seemed most strongly concentratedĪgainst Mr. "The have been making derogatory remarks about my character," he said. He told the prosecutor that he had been building up resentment against neighbors and neighborhood shopkeepers for a long time. Only occasionally excessive brightness of his dark eyes indicated that he was anything other than normal. He was as calm under questioning as he was during the twenty minutes that he was shooting men, women and children. When it was discovered he was taken to Cooper Hospital in Camden, a prisoner charged with murder. The bloodstain he left on the seat he occupied during the questioning betrayed his wound. The veteran was shot in the left thigh by a local tavern keeper but he kept that fact a secret, too, while policeman and Mitchell Cohen, Camden County prosecutor, questioned him at police headquarters for more than two hours immediately after tear gasīombs had forced him out of his bedroom to surrender. Unruh, a slender, hollow-cheeked six-footer paradoxically devoted to scripture reading and to constant practice with firearms, had no previous history of mental illness but specialists indicated tonight that there was no doubt that he was a psychiatricĬase, and that he had secretly nursed a persecution complex for two years or more. Unruh, 28 years old, a mild, soft-spoken veteran of many armored artillery battles in Italy, France, Austria, Belgium,Īnd Germany, killed twelve persons with a war souvenir Luger pistol in his home bloke in East Camden this morning. Veteran Kills 12 in Mad Rampage on Camden StreetīY MEYER BERGER / SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMESĪMDEN, N.J., Sept. ![]()
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