George Banks, Convicted Mass Murderer, Dies at 83 NYT | Top Stories Alexandra E. Petri 4 November 2025 at 11:23 He fatally shot 13 people in Pennsylvania in September 1982 in what was then one of the nation’s worst mass shootings. Five of the victims were his own children. © Clark Van Orden/The Times Leader, via Associated PressGeorge Banks in 1985.