Charles Joseph Whitman Net Worth is
$19 Million
Charles Joseph Whitman Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American engineering student and former U.S. Marine, who killed 16 people and wounded 32 others in a spree shooting in Austin, Texas on the University of Texas at Austin campus in and around the Tower on the afternoon of August 1, 1966. Three people were shot and killed inside the university's tower and eleven others were murdered after Whitman fired at random from the 28th-floor observation deck of the Main Building. Whitman was shot and killed by Austin police officer, Houston McCoy.Prior to the shootings at the University of Texas at Austin, Whitman had murdered both his wife and mother in Austin. The shooting would remain the deadliest shooting on a U.S. college campus until the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007.
| Date Of Birth | June 24, 1941 |
| Died | 1966-08-01 |
| Place Of Birth | Lake Worth, Florida, U.S. |
| Height | 6' (1.83 m) |
| Spouse | Kathy Leissner |
| Parents | Margaret Whitman, Charles Adolphus "C.A." Whitman, Jr., Charles Adolphus "C. A." Whitman, Jr. |
| Star Sign | Cancer |
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| 1 | At the age of six, he was found to have an IQ of 139. |
| 2 | Attended the University of Texas but was forced to end his studies and finish his enlistment with the Marines when They found his grades insufficient to allow him to continue. |
| 3 | He was an accomplished pianist by the age of twelve. |
| 4 | Grew up in an abusive home where his father would punish any failure to meet his extremely high standards, in academia or any other category, with physical discipline in addition to emotional abuse. |
| 5 | Joined the Boy Scouts as a child and was the youngest person in history to ever achieve the rank of Eagle Scout. |
| 6 | Subject of the biography "A Sniper in the Tower" by Gary Lavergne. |
| 7 | Immortalized in the song "The Ballad of Charles Whitman" by Kinky Friedman. |
| 8 | During the autopsy it was discovered that he had a brain tumor which may have caused the bizarre behavior of August 1, 1966. |
| 9 | A former Marine sniper, Whitman went to the top of a bell tower at the University of Texas-Austin campus and, with a high-powered rifle, shot and killed 14 people and injured dozens more on August 1, 1966. He began his killing spree at 11:50 a.m. and it ended at 1:24 p.m., when his position was stormed by Austin police officers Houston McCoy and Ramiro Martinez, who shot him dead. |
