1999 Independence Day weekend shootings
| 1999 Independence Day weekend shootings | |
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| Location | Chicago, Skokie, and Decatur, Illinois Bloomington, Indiana |
| Date | July 2–4, 1999 |
| Target | Jews, racial minorities |
Attack type | Spree shooting, drive-by 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 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 neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator.