A person who kills a number of people at one particular time and location in a frenzied, random, and apparently unpremeditated way.
‘the last three spree killers in Britain all held legal gun licenses’
‘The sniper terrorizing suburban Washington, D.C. has alternately been referred to in the press as a serial killer and a spree killer.’
‘Well, I want to say, Larry, first of all, this is what makes him a serial killer and not a spree killer, first of all.’
‘He's a spree killer, a mass killer or serial killer.’
‘A spree killer, as I say, is usually directional, and he may go through an area just shooting people, anybody who he can find as he is moving along and doesn't really know the area at all.’
‘He has interviewed spree killers, he is chairman of the Forensic Panel and developer of the depravity scale, an effort to provide a standard forensic definition of evil.’
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