1999 Independence Day weekend shootings

1999 Independence Day weekend shootings
LocationChicago, Skokie, and Decatur, Illinois
Bloomington, Indiana
DateJuly 2–4, 1999
TargetJews and racial minorities
Attack type
Spree shooting
Weapons
Deaths3 (including the perpetrator)
Injured10
AssailantBenjamin Nathaniel Smith
MotiveWhite 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.