10 years later

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http://www.examiner.com/x-5751-Chicago-Asian-Community-Examiner~y2009m7d14-White-supremacist-kills-Korean-man-walking-into-church

White supremacist kills Korean man walking into church

July 14, 2009 11:18 AM

Remembering the past helps to guide us for the future. Ten years ago a man by the name of Benjamin Nathaniel Smith decided to go on a killing spree targeting minorities in shootings across Illinois and Indiana.

Smith was a follower of the Creativity Movement, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_Movement a white supremacist organization. He was born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, attended New Trier High School in Winnetka and briefly attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before dropping out.

The 4th of July weekend of 1999 Smith wounded six Orthodox Jews in the West Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, shot and killed an African-American man outside of Skokie, wounded an African-American minister by Decatur and then drove to Bloomington where he shot and killed a Korean man walking into the Korean United Methodist Church. snip

The weekend ended with Smith shooting himself twice in the head and then fatally shooting himself in the chest.

Some view Smith as a martyr for his cause while others choose to remember that weekend as a grim possibility of what one man’s hate can do to shatter a community.

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1. Ironic that he shot himself in the head, twice, and didn't die n/t.

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2. He obviously had nothing critical located in his head.

Whatever he hit in his chest couldn't have been a heart, either.