Seattle-based entrepreneur and inventor of the modern backpack, Murray McCory, died last month at the age of 80.
A 13-year-old is under investigation after he went to his former elementary school with a black bag and backpack in what appears to have been an intended school shooting.
Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his future wife (Jan, the company’s namesake).