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George Emil Banks
"A tormented mind snaps"
Banks tried to focus his eyes and looked at his surroundings. Lying next to him was an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, which he had purchased the previous year. His four-year-old son, Bowendy, was sleeping next to him while his girlfriends, 29-year-old Regina Clemens, 23-year-old Susan Yuhas, and 29-year-old Dorothy Lyons, sat in chairs nearby. Susan, cradling the couple's one-year-old daughter Mauritania in her arms, awoke when George began to stir.
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Regina Clemens, Montanzima Banks
George
reached down and picked up the gun, locked and loaded it with a thirty-round clip. Most likely, his facial expression began to change as he stroked the military-style assault rifle, his eyes burning with anger and a scowl tainting his generally handsome features. Lacking explanation or any apparent compassion, he raised the weapon and shot Regina Clemens. The bullet pierced her right cheek, sliced downward and traveled directly through her heart, killing her instantly. Her body pitched sideways in a lifeless sprawl.
Susan and Dorothy, frozen with fear, watched in horror as George stood there. He shot Susan five times in the chest at point blank range as her cries for mercy fell upon deaf ears. A single bullet entered Mauritania's left ear and exited her right eye as her
mother Susan had tried in vain to safeguard her from the hail of bullets. Dorothy must have known that she was to be next for she shielded her face with her right arm as George fired two more rounds. The first bullet pierced her
arm and chest; the second entered her neck as she fell forward to the floor, her eyes open but glazed with the unmistakable luster of death.
Bowendy's young face turned away from his father when a single shot rang out; the bullet traveled through his left cheek and exited his right ear, virtually turning his face inside out. The AR-15 fell abruptly silent as George stood amidst the carnage he had inflicted upon his family. Spent cartridges littered the floor and the smell of gunpowder and death permeated the air. His taste for blood had yet to be quenched. He was a man on a deadly mission, and there was still much to do. He made his way up the stairs towards his children's bedrooms.
Six-year-old Montanzima was sitting up on her bed. Awakened by the gunfire, she
looked up at her father quizzically as he entered the room. George raised the weapon and shot the child point blank in the chest. As she fell over, he fired a second shot into her head. Her lifeless body slumped to the floor.
Moving d
own the hall, George stopped at eleven-year-old Nancy Lyons' room. She was sitting up on her bed holding her half-brother one-year-old Forarounde Banks in her arms. The young girl saw the anger in his eyes, and attempted to shield her brother as George stood up on the bed and took aim. There were three shots fired in rapid succession. Forarounde was shot in the back of the head, the bullet exiting his left eye. A bullet struck Nancy in the left forearm and one directly in the face that immediately shattered her skull. Both children lie dead as he walked out of the room. George made his way to his bedroom, his clothes splattered with blood, where he donned military style fatigues and a T-shirt that read, Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out.
Across the street from Banks' house, 22-year-old Jimmy Olsen and 24-year-old Ray Hall, Jr. heard the multiple gunshots a
nd decided to get out of the area. As
they approached their car, George walked out of his house. Banks immediately ran up to them, You're never going to live to tell anyone about this! he exclaimed as the gun expelled a flurry of bullets at the two men. Hall and Olsen were both struck point blank in the chest and fell to the pavement. Banks stood over their bodies only momentarily before getting into his vehicle and driving off.
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George drove approximately four miles from the crime scene at School House Lane to Heather Highlands trailer court in Plains Township. A former girlfriend, Sharon Mazzillo, along with the couple's son Kissamayu Banks, shared a mobile home there with Sharon's mother, Alice Mazzillo, her brothers K
eith and Angelo Mazzillo, and visiting nephew Scott Mazzillo. George went to the front door stepping over the various toys and bicycles that lay scattered about the yard. 24-year-old Sharon cautiously greeted him at the door. When she saw the rifle in his hand, she tried to close th
e door but George forced his way inside.
Quickly tiring of Sharon's resistance, he raised the weapon and fired. The bullet ripped through her chest and severed the main blood vessel to the heart. Her limp body slumped to the ground. George stepped over it and entered the house. He saw five-year-old Kissamayu sleeping on the couch with a blanket pulled over his head. George walked up to the child, placed the barrel of the gun just inches from the boy's forehead and fired a single shot.
Sharon's mother, 47-year-old Alice, had heard the shots and was desperately trying to phone for help. Her two sons, 10-year-old Angelo and 13-year-old Keith were looking for a place to hide. Angelo crawled under Al
ice's bed while Keith hid in the closet. George entered Alice's room, walked over to her and strategically placed the barrel of the gun at an angle aiming directly up her nasal passage. He fired one shot. The combination of the combustion from the discharge and the exiting bullet caused Alic
e's head to explode, scattering brain matter about the room.
Keith watched in horror through the partly opened closet door as seven-year-old Scott Mazzillo ran into the room and screamed. When Scott saw the horrible scene in the bedroom, he ran down the hall. George grabbed him, kicked him to the ground and punched him repeatedly in the back. When he stopped struggling, George pulled the sobbing boy up by the shoulder, placed the barrel just behind the left ear and fired. George removed his hand and allowed the lifeless child to fall on the floor. Satisfied that he had left no survivors, George stood up, walked out the front door and yelled, " killed them all! before fleeing the scene.
Scott Mazillo
Living in a predominately white neighborhood and being involved in a series of interracial relationships brought its own share of problems to Banks' home. Bank
s claimed that his white neighbors intimidated the women and called the children African niggers. His home was once firebombed. They attempted to burn my house, smashed several windows, squirted my babies with water when they were in the yard and intimidated the girls and children. During a separate incident, while standing at the corner of McCarragher and High streets, Banks said because I was walking on the sidewalk they hit me with a beer bottle, called me racist names and chased me down the street. I had to grab a pipe to hold them off until police came. Before it was over, about 100 spect
ators had gathered to watch the whole thing.
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Pa. Supreme Court to decide fate of man who killed 13
Mass murderer's lawyers seek delay of tomorrow's execution The fate of a Wilkes-Barre man, convicted in 1983 of
killing 13 people, including five of his own chi
ldren, now rests with the state Supreme
Court.
George Banks, 62, filed a motion for a stay of execution with the court Monday, claiming his mental incompetence legally bars the state from executing him.
He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. tomorrow and would become the fourth person in Pennsylvania executed since capital punishment was reinstated here in 1978.
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