September 2, 1717 - Benjamin Smith
A member of the neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator, Smith carried out a methodical campaign of racially motivated violence over a holiday weekend, targeting victims across two states based on their ethnicity and religion. The attack left two people dead and nine wounded before Smith took his own life, and it remains one of the more striking examples of organized white supremacist ideology translating directly into coordinated mass violence.
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During the weekend of July 4, 1999, white supremacist Benjamin Smith targeted ethnic and racial minorities (with victims including nine Orthodox Jews, two African-American men, and a Korean man), 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 separatist World Church of the Creator.
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