1993 Kenosha McDonald's shooting

Did You Know?

• The attack occurred a month after the ninth anniversary of the 1984 San Ysidro McDonald's massacre and 15 months after the 1992 Sydney River McDonald's murders.
• There were 20-30 employees and customers in the restaurant at the time of the attack.

Shooting

Dion Terres, wearing military fatigues, drove his 1989 Chevrolet Cavalier to the McDonald's at 7530 Pershing Rd. and arrived around 1:30 p.m. While exiting his car with a Colt AR-15 rifle, he accidentally locked himself out, leaving a loaded 30-round magazine on the passenger seat; police later found another 30-round magazine in his breast pocket. Believing the rifle was unusable without a magazine, he discarded it in the parking lot and entered through a side door brandishing a stainless-steel .44 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 629 revolver.

He ordered everyone to leave, then shot Bruce Bojesen in the head, killing him instantly, wounded Sandra Kenaga in the abdomen and Kirk Hauptmann in the wrist, and then fatally shot himself through the mouth. The Kenosha County deputy chief medical examiner reported that Terres had marijuana in his system, but it could not be determined whether he had smoked it shortly before the attack or up to a month earlier.

Perpetrator

Dion Terres was born on October 2, 1967, and was a 25-year-old male from Arlington Heights, Illinois. After graduating from John Hersey High School in 1986, he told former classmates he had joined the military, but investigations later showed he never served. He moved to Kenosha from Arlington Heights in September 1992. Terres had worked as a cellular phone assembler at a Motorola plant in Libertyville, Illinois, but was terminated in March 1993 after failing to show up for three consecutive days without explanation.

That same month, he bought the Colt AR-15 rifle at Eagle Training Gun Shop in Kenosha; he had purchased the Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum revolver in 1989 at Maxon Shooters Supply in Mount Prospect, Illinois. His ex-girlfriend, 16-year-old Kimberly Sinkler, said that a few days before the shooting, Terres became enraged when a Jehovah's Witness missionary came to his door, threatened to shoot him, then ran upstairs, put on his fatigues, and returned with his rifle, but the missionary had left.

After the shooting, Terres was investigated as a possible suspect in the Brown's Chicken massacre that occurred on January 8, 1993, in Palatine, Illinois, but police concluded no link was established.