Murder of Blaze Bernstein
| Murder of Blaze Bernstein | |
|---|---|
Bernstein in 2018 | |
| Location | Lake Forest, California, U.S. |
| Date | January 2, 2018 PST (UTC-08:00) |
Attack type | Murder by stabbing, hate crime, violence against LGBT people |
| Weapon | Knife |
| Victim | Blaze Bernstein |
| Perpetrator | Samuel Woodward |
| Motive | Neo-Nazism, Anti-LGBT extremism, Antisemitism |
| Convictions | First-degree murder |
On January 2, 2018, 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania sophomore Blaze Bernstein was killed after leaving home to meet an acquaintance at a park in California. Authorities later charged his former high school classmate Samuel Woodward with the murder, declaring that the incident was a hate crime. Woodward was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.