1999 Independence Day weekend shootings | |
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Location | Chicago, Skokie, and Decatur, Illinois Bloomington, Indiana |
Date | July 2–4, 1999 |
Target | Jews and racial minorities |
Attack type | Spree shooting |
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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 the U.S. states of Illinois and Indiana, after which he committed suicide. Smith was member of the neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator.