Event

1999 Independence Day weekend shootings

2 Jul 1999 · 40.40° N, 89.10° W

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When
2 Jul 1999
Kind
Event
Coordinates
40.40° N, 89.10° W
Description
Benjamin Nathaniel Smith begins a three-day killing spree targeting racial and ethnic minorities in Illinois and Indiana, which ends in Smith's suicide.

Placed at the area around the district its text names, Illinois.

1999 Independence Day weekend shootings

Shooting spree in Illinois and Indiana, United States

During the weekend of July 4, 1999, white supremacist Benjamin Smith targeted ethnic and racial minorities, in a three-day drive-by shooting rampage in the U.S. states of Illinois and Indiana, after which he committed suicide. Smith was a member of the white supremacist World Church of the Creator.

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