Arthur Tunney was a white supremacist serial killer who shot several people of color living in his neighborhood.
History[]
Tunney developed white supremacist beliefs after his mother was killed by a Black mugger. He projected blame onto the entire Black race for her death and became a xenophobe as well, subscribing to white power magazines. Eventually, Tunney began prowling around his racially diverse and marginalized neighborhood with a shotgun, killing three people of color and injuring a fourth. Detectives Briscoe and Logan tracked him down through his subscription to a racist magazine and found that he fit a profile developed by Dr. Elizabeth Olivet of a loner who lives in the neighborhood, blames Blacks for his problems, and owns a shotgun.
They brought Tunney in for questioning and arrested him when the surviving victim identified his voice from a voice lineup. While in jail, he was stabbed by a Black inmate, further fueling his racism. Tunney went to trial, represented by Black lawyer Horace McCoy. When someone committed a copycat murder, McCoy drafted a motion to have Tunney released on bail due to reasonable doubt about his guilt, which was granted. Once Tunney was out, he shot and injured a Black man on a street and then tried to shoot his daughter, who then shot and killed him in self-defense. (L&O: "Profile")
Known Victims[]
- Ruben Calzada (killed with a shotgun blast)
- Hector Duvall (killed with a shotgun blast)
- Ashita Khan (killed with a shotgun blast)
- Lionel Jackson (assaulted; shot with a shotgun blast)
- An unnamed man (assaulted; shot with a shotgun blast)
- The man's unnamed daughter (attempted to murder)