He met his wife, Margaret, in Savannah where they were married. Whitman's father, Charles Adolph Whitman, was raised at the Bethesda School For Boys in Savannah, Georgia. The stress caused by the break-up of the family became a dominant discussion between Whitman and a psychiatrist at the University of Texas Health Center on March 29, 1966. Several months prior to the tragedy, he was summoned to Lake Worth, Florida to pick up his mother who was filing for divorce from his father. Whitman's frustrations with his dysfunctional parents, mainly the father, were complicated by amphetamine abuse and other health issues including headaches that he reported in one of his final notes as "tremendous". By today's standards, his personality would have been deemed narcissistic with borderline personality features NOS, (not otherwise specified). The elder Whitman had leveraged his business income into a way to control and manipulate his family, and buy favors within the community. He was also known to become physically and emotionally abusive. The elder Whitman was an authoritarian who provided for his family, but demanded near perfection from all of them. There were underlying dysfunctional issues within the family that escalated in 1966, when his mother left his father and moved to Austin,Texas, as Charles was protective of his mother, and had been for several years. Whitman excelled at academics and was well liked by his peers and neighbors. He was shot and killed by Austin Police Officer Houston McCoy, who was assisting Austin Police Officer Ramiro Martinez.Ĭharles Whitman grew up in an upper-middle class family headed by a father who owned a successful plumbing contract business in Lake Worth, Florida. The tower massacre took place shortly after Whitman murdered his wife and mother at their homes in Austin. On that date three were killed inside the University tower and ten more were shot from the 29th floor observation deck of the tower one died a week later from her wounds.
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