John C Salvi III was an anti-abortion extremist who carried out fatal shootings at two abortion facilities in Brookline, Massachusetts on December 30,1994.
21 Facts About John Salvi
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John Salvi died in 1996 in what was officially ruled a suicide in his jail cell.
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John Salvi left Planned Parenthood, and drove west on Beacon Street to the Preterm Health Services office.
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Preterm was approximately two miles away and John Salvi drove past another abortion facility to get there, but did not stop.
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John Salvi then dropped the black duffle bag, which contained a gun, receipts from a gun dealer in Hampton, New Hampshire, and 700 rounds of ammunition.
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The day before the shootings, John Salvi practiced shooting at a firing range.
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John Salvi cut his hair immediately after the shootings to alter his appearance.
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John Salvi was captured in Norfolk, Virginia the day after the shootings, after firing over a dozen bullets into the Hillcrest Clinic.
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The clinic was open at the time, however John Salvi was captured before making his way up to the second floor where Hillcrest was located.
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On February 5,1996, John Salvi was put on trial in a Massachusetts state court for the murders of Lee Ann Nichols and Shannon Lowney.
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The defense argued that Salvi suffered from schizophrenia, with several expert witnesses including forensic psychiatrist Phillip J Resnick testifying that Salvi exhibited schizophrenic behavior and was not competent to stand trial.
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John Salvi frequently disrupted the proceedings by yelling out a religious philosophy in the middle of the trial.
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Haycock asserted that John Salvi had no mental disease at the time of the crime and was competent to stand trial.
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On March 19,1996, John Salvi was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and five counts of armed assault with intent to murder.
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John Salvi was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Since abortion clinics are protected under federal law, and John Salvi had traveled across state lines between the shootings, he could have been put on trial in federal court, but the US attorney declined to pursue the case after John Salvi had been convicted in state court.
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John Salvi has talked about the Vatican printing its own currency and a specific conspiracy of the Ku Klux Klan, the Freemasons, and the Mob.
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The Boston Globe reported that John Salvi had Spitz's name and unlisted phone number on his person at the time of his arrest.
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John Salvi was found under his bed with his hands and feet tied up.
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David Bear, a psychiatrist who examined John Salvi, was not surprised by his death.
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John Salvi believed the purpose of his life was to get out his message about Catholic oppression, Bear said.