1999 Independence Day weekend shootings

1999 Independence Day weekend shootings
1999 Independence Day weekend shootings
Location	Chicago, Skokie, and Decatur, Illinois; Bloomington, Indiana
Date	July 2–4, 1999
Target	Jews and racial minorities
Attack type	Spree shooting
Weapons	Bryco .380-caliber pistol; Ruger .22-caliber pistol;
Deaths	3 (including the perpetrator)
Injured	10
Assailant	Benjamin Nathaniel Smith
Motive	White supremacy, antisemitism, racial hatred

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

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