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Hupp and her parents were having lunch at the Luby's in Killeen in 1991, when a [[mass shooting]] took place. The gunman, George Hennard, shot forty-four people and killed twenty-four, including himself. The fatally wounded included both of Hupp's parents. Hupp later expressed regret about deciding to remove her gun from her purse and lock it in her car, lest she risk possibly running afoul of the state's concealed weapons laws; during the shootings, she reached for her weapon but then remembered that it was "a hundred feet away in my car."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wmsa.net/legacy-wmsa/gratia-hupp_1992.htm |first=Suzanna |last=Hupp |title=Dr. Suzanna Gratia's testimony (in favor of favor of Missouri's HB-1720) |publisher=[[WMSA]]|date=1992|access-date=May 7, 2020}}</ref> Her father, Al Gratia, who felt that he "needed to do something", tried to rush the gunman and was fatally shot in the chest. Seeing an escape route through a broken window (broken by the shoulder of another fleeing victim), Hupp grabbed her mother by the shirt and told her, "Come on, we have to go now!" As Hupp moved toward the only escape, she believed her mother was following her, only to find out later that Ursula had also been murdered, shot dead at point blank range while cradling her dying husband in her arms.<ref name="books.google.com"/> |
Hupp and her parents were having lunch at the Luby's in Killeen in 1991, when a [[mass shooting]] took place. The gunman, George Hennard, shot forty-four people and killed twenty-four, including himself. The fatally wounded included both of Hupp's parents. Hupp later expressed regret about deciding to remove her gun from her purse and lock it in her car, lest she risk possibly running afoul of the state's concealed weapons laws; during the shootings, she reached for her weapon but then remembered that it was "a hundred feet away in my car."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wmsa.net/legacy-wmsa/gratia-hupp_1992.htm |first=Suzanna |last=Hupp |title=Dr. Suzanna Gratia's testimony (in favor of favor of Missouri's HB-1720) |publisher=[[WMSA]]|date=1992|access-date=May 7, 2020}}</ref> Her father, Al Gratia, who felt that he "needed to do something", tried to rush the gunman and was fatally shot in the chest. Seeing an escape route through a broken window (broken by the shoulder of another fleeing victim), Hupp grabbed her mother by the shirt and told her, "Come on, we have to go now!" As Hupp moved toward the only escape, she believed her mother was following her, only to find out later that Ursula had also been murdered, shot dead at point blank range while cradling her dying husband in her arms.<ref name="books.google.com"/> |
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