Queen Street Massacre

Date: December 8, 1987 • Location: Melbourne, Australia

A man shot and killed eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death.

The Queen Street massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 8 December 1987 at Australia Post offices on 191 Queen Street in Melbourne, Victoria, when 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic, a former tennis player and law school withdrawee, entered the building on the pretext of visiting a friend, and opened fire on office workers at random with an illegally modified M1 carbine, killing eight and injuring five. After being disarmed, he crawled from an 11th-floor window and died on impact.