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1994 Fairchild Air Force Base Hospital Shooting 20 June 1994, Dean Mellberg, an ex-Air Force member, entered the base hospital and shot and killed five people. . Mellberg had recently had been discharged from Cannon AFB, NM as unfit for duty, and travelled to Washington State from New Mexico to purchase weapons and plan his attack on the base. No motive has been established other than mental issues for targeting this particular base.
1994 shooting incident[edit]
On 20 June 1994, Dean Mellberg, an ex-Air Force member, entered the base hospital and shot and killed five people and wounded many others. Mellberg recently had been discharged from Cannon AFB, NM as unfit for duty.
Previously, psychologists Maj. Thomas Brigham and Captain Alan London at Fairchild AFB had found him unfit for duty, which resulted in a transfer to the Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland AFB for further psychological examination. With Congressional pressure brought by Mellberg's mother, Airman Mellberg was found to be fit for military service. Airman Mellberg then was reassigned to Cannon Air Force Base where similar events led to him being returned to psychologists for evaluation. After this evaluation, he was discharged from Cannon AFB as being unfit for military service. He traveled to the town of Airway Heights, just outside of Fairchild AFB, where he purchased weapons and planned his attack on the base.
At the time of the shooting, Fairchild's hospital was an ungated facility. The gunman, armed with a Chinese-made MAK-90, an AK-47clone,[13] entered the office of Brigham and London and killed both men. Mellberg continued to move through the hospital, injuring and killing several people, including 8-year-old Christin McCarron. The gunman then walked out of the building into the parking lot and killed Anita Lindner. He then was confronted by a security policeman, Senior Airman Andy Brown. From approximately 70 yards away, Brown ordered Mellberg to drop his weapon. After Mellberg refused, Brown fired four shots from his 9mm pistol, with two rounds hitting the perpetrator in the head and shoulder, killing him.[14] After an investigation it was concluded that Airman Brown was justified in his actions, having saved countless lives, and was awarded the Airman's Medal by then-President Bill Clinton.
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