Charles Whitman University of Texas.
Not only was it the first one I remember, it was the first one to be shown live on TV.:eek:
You mean four, not five. Not that that makes it any less evil.
Add me to the long list of UofT tower rememberers.
If you’re talking about one that received national publicity, for me it was the McDonald’s shooting in 1984. Another thing I remember about it is that it happened just a few weeks before the Los Angeles Olympics, and some athletes, here and elsewhere, wondered if it was safe to come here to compete.
I grew up in Des Moines and definitely remember this, in part because I had a friend who had just moved from the part of town where these boys lived, and she knew them. 
I was 14.
I don’t remember the Texas tower shooting - was only 6. But I do remember watching the 1975 movie. It made an impression.
And yeah - I don’t like Mondays from the Boomtown Rats.
Youngsters! I remember the My Lai massacre in 1968.
Richard Speck killed eight student nurses in a Chicago hospital in 1966.
Speck didn’t shot them, though. And I know that bit of trivia because the murders took place in the neighborhood where I was born.
this one I remember being in ca they stopped afternoon cartoons for it ,
As it happened, probably the Paris terror attack in December of 2015.
I don’t spend a lot of time focused on getting news unless it’s information I can do something useful with. That’s strengthened by my assumption that the first report is always wrong thanks to my time as a staff officer. I may well have been exposed to incidents before that as they happened. They would have faded from memory pretty quick. I just wasn’t paying all that much attention until later.
San Ysidro McDonalds for me. I was on a summer exchange programme in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
This is the first one for me too.
He actually killed 17, because one of his victims (who herself survived) was 8 months pregnant. It appears that he aimed straight for the baby, who his mother believes died immediately. 
There’s a documentary about it that came out a couple years ago. It’s aired on PBS.
Add me to the list who remember San Ysidro first.
I do remember when I Don’t Like Mondays hit the radios and the discussion about the act that lead to the song, but I had no idea it happened earlier in the year the song came out.
I think I remember the Howard Unruh shooting, which was probably the first one (1949) that was covered by the media in progress., and in fact a reporter even talked to him on the phone while he was shooting. I actually remember only his name, being fascinated by spelling of it when I read it in the newspaper. I was ten.
Same for me, except I was 19 at the time.
The first one I remember clearly is Columbine, but I know I’d heard of at least one post office shooting before then. Probably not the one in 1986, though.
San Ysidro McDonald’s was the first I remember as it happened. If Jonestown doesn’t count.
The massacre at the Munich Olympics, 1972.
This one for sure. Not positive if I actually remember Kent State or any of the Vietnam collateral damage incidents. There were also a few airline hijackings with passengers killed about the same era.