On July 18, 1984, James Huberty killed 21 people in 77 minutes at a San Ysidro McDonald's despite multiple warning signs from childhood—violent fantasies, racism, abuse, and repeated threats to kill people—that were ignored by employers, neighbors, and a mental health system that lost his intake call due to a misspelled name. Huberty exhibited escalating warning signs from age seven onward—parental abandonment, bullying, obsessive gun collecting, violent threats at work, and domestic abuse—yet no intervention occurred until his final call to mental health services was misrouted.