What the records say
- When
- 22 Jun 1977
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 37.76° N, 122.42° W
- Description
- homophobic murder in San Francisco
- Injured
- 1
Murder of Robert Hillsborough
1977 homophobic murder in San Francisco, U.S.
On June 22, 1977, Robert Hillsborough, a 33-year-old American gay man, was murdered in San Francisco by John Cordova, a 19-year-old from Daly City. Cordova and three other young men followed Hillsborough to his apartment in the Mission and stabbed him fifteen times in the face and chest.
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