The Region - News from April 12, 1985
Nine months after a gunman killed 21 people and wounded 19 others in a McDonald’s restaurant in the San Diego community of San Ysidro, the fast-food company opened another outlet there. The July slaughter by James Oliver Huberty was the worst single-day killing spree by one man in the nation’s history. The opening fulfilled a promise by McDonald’s to return to the border town. The razed site, 2 1/2 blocks from the new restaurant, was donated to San Ysidro and now serves as an unofficial memorial to victims of the tragedy.
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