Standard Gravure shooting
| Standard Gravure shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Date | September 14, 1989 8:38 – 9:00 a.m. (EDT) |
Attack type | Mass murder, murder-suicide, mass shooting |
| Weapons | |
| Deaths | 9 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 12 |
| Perpetrator | Joseph Wesbecker |
| Litigation | 1 |
The Standard Gravure shooting occurred on September 14, 1989, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, when Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured twelve at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide. The shooting is the deadliest workplace shooting in Kentucky's history. The murders resulted in a high-profile lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Company, manufacturers of the antidepressant drug Prozac, which Wesbecker had begun taking during the month prior to his shooting rampage.