Stephen Marshall (murderer)
Stephen Marshall | |
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| Born | Stephen Alexander Marshall August 9, 1985 Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | April 16, 2006 (aged 20) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Suicide by firearm |
| Known for | Murdering convicted sex offenders |
| Motive | Undetermined vigilantism |
| Details | |
| Victims | 2 (Joseph Gray and William Elliott, both convicted sex offenders) |
| Date | April 16, 2006 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maine |
| Target | Maine inhabitants on the sex offender registry |
| Weapons | .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol .22 caliber handgun Colt AR-15-style rifle (all stolen from father) |
Date apprehended | Committed suicide before apprehension |
Stephen Alexander Marshall (August 9, 1985 – April 16, 2006) was a 20-year-old American-Canadian man who travelled from Nova Scotia to Maine with the intention of shooting and killing convicted sex offenders in an act of vigilantism. Using the names and addresses of convicted sex offenders retrieved through searching publicly available sex offender registries in the United States, Marshall drove to the houses of two convicted sex offenders and killed them, before taking his own life in Boston, Massachusetts as police were stopping the bus he was on.