Connar Wilkinson

 

 

Age: 30

 

Summary: student at Washington High School in Los Angeles, California who was one of the last six surviving hostages of the 1994 Washington High School hostage crisis when a despondent student held twelve classmates hostage during a five-hour standoff before the gunman was killed in a shootout with SWAT team that left six other students severely wounded (two students died from their injuries, three were murdered, and one committed suicide the following years) in one of the nation's most notorious incidents that plagued the Los Angeles SWAT system during an 11-month trial.

 

 

Cause of Death: Bacterial meningitis

 

Born: April 26, 1978

 

Died: June 25, 2008

 

Location: Compton, California