Brown's Chicken massacre

Brown's Chicken massacre
Brown's Chicken massacre
Location	Palatine, Illinois, U.S.
Coordinates	42°07′22″N 88°02′53″W / 42.12278°N 88.04806°W / 42.12278; -88.04806
Date	January 8, 1993; 31 years ago (1993-01-08)
Attack type	Armed robbery, mass shooting, mass murder
Weapons	Snub-nosed Smith & Wesson Model 60 .38-caliber revolver
Deaths	7
Perpetrators	Juan Luna and James Degorski
Motive	Robbery; Witness elimination

The Brown's Chicken massacre was a mass murder that occurred on January 8, 1993, in Palatine, Illinois, when two robbers shot and killed seven employees at a Brown's Chicken fast-food restaurant.

The case remained unsolved for nearly nine years, until one of the assailants was implicated by his girlfriend in 2002. Police used DNA samples from the murder scene to match one of the suspects, Juan Luna. Luna was put on trial in 2007, found guilty of seven counts of first degree murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment. James Degorski, the other assailant, was found guilty in 2009 on all seven counts of first degree murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.