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Paul Anthony EVERS
Surry Hills massacre
Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics: After
one of his neighbours called him a "dole bludger"
Number of victims: 5
Date of murders: August 30,
1990
Date of arrest:
Same day
Date of birth: 1955
Victims profile: Four men and a woman (his half-sister)
Method of murder:
Shooting
(Bentley 12-gauge pump-action
shotgun)
Location: Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
Status:
Found guilty of
manslaughter, rather than murder, due to diminished responsibilty
Arming himself with a Bentley 12-gauge pump-action
shotgun, Evers confronted 60-year-old Thomas Cullin in the housing
commission high-rise in Sydney's inner-city Surry Hills, shooting him
dead through the screen door of his unit. Four others were killed in the
rampage that followed.
Surrendered after buying cigarettes and a soft drink at a nearby store.
Man killed 5 in Australia after
tauntings, police say
San Jose Mercury News
August 30, 1990
An unemployed man
angered by a neighbor's tauntings about his receiving welfare shot and
killed the man today, then killed four other people before surrendering,
police said.
Paul Anthony Evers, 35, was charged
with five counts of murder following the shootings in the public-housing
apartment building where he lived.
5 australians slain
Philadelphia Daily News
August 30, 1990
SYDNEY, Australia -
An Australian man, awakened this morning by a neighbor's insulting taunt,
killed five people with shotgun blasts to the head and walked to a
grocery to buy cigarettes and a cold drink before surrendering to police.
Police prosecutor Brett Longville said Paul Evers, 35, was awakened by a
male neighbor shouting "dole bludger" (unemployed idler) outside his
room. Evers shot the neighbor and then four others at his three-story
apartment.
Aussie gunman kills five
The Oregonian
August 30, 1990
A man with a shotgun
killed five persons Thursday in an apartment building, police said. A
suspect surrendered after buying cigarettes and a soft drink at a nearby
store.
A police spokesman said four victims
were killed in a public housing building in the Sydney neighborhood of
Surry Hills. The fifth died after being taken to a hospital.
Neighbor's insult spurs australian to
kill five
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 31, 1990
SYDNEY, Australia -
An Australian man, awakened Thursday by a neighbor's insulting taunt,
killed five people with shotgun blasts to the head and walked to a
grocery to buy cigarettes and a cold drink before surrendering to police.
Paul Evers, 35, left a scene
described by police as horrendous after a breakfast-time rampage through
a three-story apartment building in Surry Hills, a rundown district in
Sydney.
Paul Anthony Evers
On August 30, 1990, Paul Anthony Evers
awoke at about 8.30am to the taunts of his neighbour: "You bludger. You
dole bludger." It was enough to send him over the edge.
Arming himself
with a Bentley 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, Evers confronted 60-year-old
Thomas Cullin in the housing commission high-rise in Sydney's inner-city
Surry Hills, shooting him dead through the screen door of his unit. Four
others were killed in the rampage that followed, including Ever's half-sister,
who had also been his lover, Michelle Coleman, 24.
Evers blamed his neighbour's taunts but psychiatrists,
who labelled him psychotic, said he was enraged because Coleman was
leaving him. His father recounted a life of rejection by the women in
his life -- his natural mother, who left him when he was three, his
stepmother and finally his half-sister. Evers was found guilty of
manslaughter, rather than murder, due to diminished responsibilty.
