Colin Ferguson
Film subject
1958 –
Who is Colin Ferguson?
Colin Ferguson is a mass murderer who was convicted of murdering six people and injuring nineteen others on the Long Island Rail Road in Garden City, New York.
On December 7, 1993, as an LIRR train pulled into the Merillon Avenue station, Ferguson pulled out his gun and started firing at passengers. He killed six and wounded nineteen before being stopped by three of the passengers: Kevin Blum, Mark McEntee and Mike O'Connor. Ferguson's trial was notable for a number of unusual developments, including his firing of his defense counsel and insisting on representing himself and questioning his own victims on the stand.
Ferguson was convicted on February 17, 1995, of murder for the deaths of the six passengers who died of their injuries. He was also convicted of attempted murder for wounding nineteen passengers. As of 2013, he is serving his sentence of 315 years and 8 months to life at the Upstate Correctional Facility in Franklin County, New York. His earliest possible parole date is August 6, 2309.
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- Born
- Jan 14, 1958
Kingston - Parents
- Spouses
- Audrey Warren
(1986/05/13 - 1988/05/18)
- Audrey Warren
- Ethnicity
- African people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Adelphi University
- Calabar High School
- Nassau Community College
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on July 23, 2013
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