The End Of The Gunman
Hennard had a gun to Rev. Kirby Lack’s head, also a patron in the restaurant, who was trying to save his friend Michael Griffith, one of the victims Hennard had shot. Then the police arrived at the scene. Two officers, Kenneth Olson, and Chuck Longwell gained entry into the restaurant through the hole Vaughn had created. Perhaps Hennard got startled by the officers’ yells, he missed his shot on Lack’s head, and the bullet went through the carpet, close to his face. The police repeatedly told Hennard to surrender, but he refused, saying he was going to kill more people.
A diagram of the crime scene at Luby’s Cafeteria after George Hennard murdered 23 people and committed suicide on October 16, 1991, with the locations of the victims marked by rectangular blocks. Source: tumblr.com
Hennard engaged the officers in a brief shootout which earned him some injuries. He retreated to the restaurant’s bathroom alcove where he pulled the trigger of his Ruger P89 to his right temple. After 12 minutes of terror that seemed like forever to those hiding silently under tables and chairs, Hennard laid dead in the bathroom alcove.