Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Chuck E Cheese Massacre - The Nathan Dunlap story
Sun, 02 Feb 2025
This is the story of Nathan Dunlap and the Chuck E Cheese shooting
Who is Nathan Dunlap and what happened at Chuck E. Cheese?
So this guy walks into a Chuck E. Cheese one night, and he just starts blasting. Blam! Blam! Unaliving some of the workers. And some people think this massacre inspired a whole-ass video game franchise. Let me explain. Now the guy's name is Nathan. He's 19. And Nathan, he's kind of a turd.
He's been in and out of trouble his whole life, committing several armed robberies and spending time in a juvenile detention center. But now he has an actual job, working at the pizza place slash arcade, Chuck E. Cheese. where he works as a dough master. I guess that means he makes the pizza dough.
But then one night he's working a shift and he goes to talk to his manager because he wants to ask for more hours. So he asked the manager to give him more hours and manager's like, nah, bro. And this makes Nathan mad and they start arguing and it gets heated and pretty quickly, bam, the manager straight up fires Nathan. And Nathan, he doesn't take this firing well. He's pissed off.
He feels like he was wronged and he vows that one day he's going to get revenge. And so a bit of time passes and Nathan is still salty thinking about this. He hates that manager. He tells all his friends how he hates that manager. Sometimes he even visits the Chuck E. Cheese to eat and vent to his old Chuck E. Cheese co-workers like this place sucks. That manager sucks.
And I guess his old co-workers humor him, but they don't really take him seriously. And five months go by, and this resentment has been building up in him this whole time. How dare they fire him when all he did was ask for more hours.
Now, I don't know if he's in a bad mood or just having a terrible day, but one afternoon, Nathan is playing basketball with his friends, and he decides that this is it. Today is the day, and he says it out loud to his friends. Today is the day I'm going to get revenge on that manager, and I'm gonna rob that Chuck E. Cheese.
So later that night, around 9 p.m., he gets a pew-pew that he had stolen from a friend's grandmother's house long before this, and he gets that pew-pew and he hides it in his pocket. Then he borrows his girlfriend's car and he drives it to the Chuck E. Cheese. And he goes inside, he sits at a table, he orders a ham and cheese sandwich, and he's acting pretty chill.
And then he goes and he plays an arcade game. The game he plays is actually Hogan's Alley, which Hogan's Alley is ironically a shooting game where you shoot targets with one of those big red arcade pew-pews. Anyway, after playing Hogan's Alley, Nathan goes and he chats with an employee, a former co-worker of his. And he asks him if that old manager who fired him is working that night.
And the former co-worker is like, nah, he's not working tonight. And so the guy who Nathan wants to get revenge on isn't even there. And all this resentment building up in him just leads to nothing. So now what's he going to do? Is he going to leave? Is he still going to rob the place?
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