Lithuanian gunman goes on killing spree

The Washington Post

February 17, 1998

A gunman went on a house-to-house killing spree and shot dead eight neighbors before being beaten to death by survivors in a small village in Lithuania, police said.

The dead, aged between 17 and 65, were four men and four women.

"It seemed that he wanted to kill everyone in the village," a police spokesman said of the massacre in Drauchiu in the Shirvintos region.

Police identified the gunman as Leonard Zavistanovich, 58, and said his motive was not known.