![]() ![]() Smith was a high school senior at the time of the attack. The gunman, 18-year-old Robert Benjamin Smith, a resident of Mesa, surrendered without incident to responding police. Tammy Sellers, 3-months (child of Joyce Sellers).Debra Sellers, 3 (child of Joyce Sellers).Smith turned himself in to the responding police officers without incident. Upon hearing this, Cummings fled and called the police who arrived shortly afterwards. While Smith was killing the women in the back room, the operator of the school, Eveline Cummings, entered the school and heard the gunshots. Harris recounted to the police that Smith had laughed as he shot his victims. The fifth woman, Bonita Harris, survived by playing dead after she was shot. ![]() The customer, Joyce Sellers, managed to shield the body of her youngest child and the child survived with a gunshot wound in the arm. Smith then shot and killed three of his victims with shots to head, but the oldest baby survived her wounds and squirmed before being stabbed to death by Smith. ![]() Once there, Smith made the victims lie down in a circle with their heads in the center and attempted to put sandwich bags over their heads in an attempt to suffocate them, but was unable to fit the bags over their heads. Smith entered the Rose-Mar College of Beauty and brandished his weapon to gain the attention of the people inside and when no one paid attention he fired a warning shot and then ordered everyone, five students and one customer along with the customer's two babies to head to the back room of the building. The shooting is considered to be the first copycat mass shooting with Smith indicating that he had wanted to kill more than Charles Whitman, the perpetrator of the University of Texas tower shooting earlier the same year. All seven victims had been shot and one of the victims who initially survived her wounds was stabbed in the back. On November 12, 1966, 18-year-old Robert Smith shot and killed five people, four women and a toddler, and injured two others at the Rose-Mar College of Beauty in Mesa, Arizona. ![]()
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