David Esco Welch
1958
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- murderer
David Esco Welch (born 1957/1958) is an American mass murderer who shot and killed six people during a home invasion of his girlfriend's house in Oakland, California on December 8, 1986. Welch was sentenced to death and remains on death row awaiting execution.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- San Quentin Rehabilitation CenterDates unknown
Biography
David Esco Welch (born 1957/1958) is an American mass murderer who shot and killed six people during a home invasion of his girlfriend's house in Oakland, California on December 8, 1986. Welch was sentenced to death and remains on death row awaiting execution. A female accomplice, Rita Lewis, was given a sentence of 51 years to life imprisonment. The mass murder was considered the worst to occur in Oakland until it was surpassed by the 2012 Oikos University shooting.
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