On the morning of November 2, 1999, Xerox, based in Honolulu, Hawaii, began its busy day. But what no one knows is that Uesugi, who has been working for the company for 15 years, sneaks into the building with a Glock 17 pistol. In the minutes that followed, Uesugi fired targeted shots at 8 people at the company, 7 of whom died on the spot and 1 escaped. Uesugi then drove away from the scene, but turned himself in to the police at 3 p.m. that day, and because there was no death penalty in Hawaii, Uesugi was eventually sentenced to 235 years in prison.
This article talks to everyone about the shooting in Hawaii, and talks about the murderer as usual
Byran Koji Uyesugi, Byran Koji Uesugi, Japanese names mixed with English look particularly strange, I'll call him Uesugi after that.
Born in 1959 in the Nuannu community of Honolulu, Hawaii, Uesugi is generally normal, Asian-style quiet, not troublesome, and has a wide range of hobbies, especially shooting. He also joined JROTC in high school (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps).
Childhood Uesugi ↑
According to his brother, Uesugi was fine until he graduated from high school, but in 1977 there was a car accident that hit his head on the front windshield, and the whole person has become a bit mysterious ever since.
In 1982, Uesugi began collecting guns, and by the time of the incident, Uesugi had as many as 25 pistols, rifles, and shotguns, and 18 guns were placed on his father's side. But this is very common in the United States, especially Uesugi himself is a shooting enthusiast, and it is normal to carry a cabinet gun at home.
The picture shows the weapon that the police later retrieved from Uesugi, and the red circle is the Glock 17 used in the crime
In 1984, Uesugi joined Xerox as a technical support specialist (in fact, a printer repairer), and according to Uesugi's father, his son began to be abnormal after entering Xerox. Especially after Uesugi's mother died in 1988, he said he often had headaches.
Uesugi did change a bit after entering Xerox, he was not an irritable person himself, but his temper got worse and worse after work. Since he is a repair printer, on the one hand, he is very unhappy with the group of people in the technical department who update and iterate the equipment hardware all day, after all, after each upgrade, Uesugi himself has to learn how to repair it again. He is also very unhappy with his colleagues in the maintenance department, because the parameters of the detection equipment are always modified by colleagues, resulting in the fact that the time he uses it is always different from the last time.
By 1993, Uesugi had a big fight at the company and kicked the elevator door. Adult impulses come at a price, and after that, Uesugi was arrested for grade III property destruction, paid a fine, and ordered to receive psychological counseling and emotional management courses.
After this incident, Uesugi's relationship with his colleagues became worse and worse, he always felt that his colleagues were chewing their tongues behind his back, that everyone was isolating him, and Uesugi himself began to become more and more nervous and suspicious. In 1995 he even said in public that if he was fired from the company, the first thing he would do would be to come to the company with a gun and kill people.
The picture shows the front desk of Xerox Hawaii
As mentioned earlier, one of the main reasons for Uesugi's anger was the update iteration of the R&D department, but by the end of the 90s, the iteration of digital products such as photocopiers was getting faster and faster, which was the trend. Therefore, as a maintenance worker, Uesugi also had to receive training for new products, and by 1999, Uesugi was 40 years old, and his learning ability had become very poor, so he simply refused to accept new product training.
On November 1, 1999, the day before the crime, Uesugi's superiors forced him to learn about the new product, or else he would be fired. Uesugi decided that even if he was expelled, it could not be this reason. Then he had to find a reason to be expelled – shooting!
At eight o'clock in the morning of November 2, Uesugi came to the company as usual, and even chatted with another colleague on the first floor, but no one noticed that he had a Glock around his waist and two full magazines in his pocket.
Uesugi hates the people in the technology research and development department the most, usually there are many contradictions, he went directly to the technology/computer room after going up to the second floor, there were three people in it at that time. Ron Kawamae, a 54-year-old supervisor, was shot in the head with a headshot, while Jason Balatico, 33, was shot and killed five times. But Uesugi didn't shoot another person in the office named Rodel Shin, probably because the two didn't usually contradict each other.
The picture above is the location of the first round of kills.
The picture shows the computer office
Uesugi then returned to the stairwell and opened the door of the conference room, where five people, including supervisor Melvin Lee, were in a meeting. Uesugi waved hello to them, said goodbye, and then shot at the 5 men.
After emptying the magazine, several of the injured were still humming on the ground, Uesugi calmly changed the magazine and continued to shoot at the people who were still gasping for breath, and the police autopsy found that 3 of them were shot 4 times, 1 shot 5, and 1 shot twice.
At this moment, in the 210 lounge opposite the conference room, there was an employee named Ronald Yamanaka who heard the gunshots, opened the door and saw Uesugi shooting in the conference room, and then he immediately ran to the left side of the stairs, in which he saw Rodel Letter standing stupidly in the technology/computer room, and Yamanaka roared and then the two ran downstairs together.
On the other hand, Steve Matsuda of the 209 office was calling the headquarters and was half a beat slower, and when he went out to check, Uesugi just finished the people in the conference room. It was clear that Matsuda was one of Uesugi's targets, and Uesugi raised his gun, matsuda was possessed by the Hong Kong reporter at this time, and the snakeskin runner accelerated and fled from the left staircase. Uesugi fired, but did not hit. At this time, there was no one alive on the second floor, and Uesugi calmly left the scene.
On the left side of the picture is the staircase where Matsuda escaped, and on the right is the staircase where Uesugi evacuated.
Uesugi's Glock 17↑ also uses a 9mm empty tip bomb, which is more harmful to human tissue.
7 dead ↑
When the police arrived at the scene, Uesugi had already left, and then the Hawaiian police issued a wanted warrant, and the blockade section began to investigate. By around 9:30, someone had called the police to say they had seen the suspect's vehicle, and then the police began to seal off the area and narrow the encirclement. Around noon, the police found Uesugi, who was in Hawaii's Nature Center Park, sitting in a van, and the police negotiated for three hours, and by about 3 p.m., Uesugi was performing a French military salute to surrender to the police.
In court, Uesugi initially refused to plead guilty, saying he was insane. His defense lawyers and psychologists agree... However, in the end, Hawaii sentenced him to 7 first-degree murders and 1 attempted murder, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. But Uesugi and his lawyer repeatedly appealed, and finally the parole board said parole could be released, but after at least 235 years.
Uesugi: Thank you so much!