Benjamin Nathaniel Smith was a
spree killer who murdered
Won-Joon Yoon[?] and
Ricky Byrdsong. Smith targeted
Hispanics,
Blacks,
Orientals, and
Jews in a thirty-six hour spate of
drive-by shootings during the weekend of
July 4,
1999 in
Illinois and
Indiana,
USA. He wounded eight others and shot at and missed another nine people. Finally, Smith tried to kill himself as officers pursued him down a southern
Illinois highway. After shooting himself twice he crashed his
automobile into a
tree. He then shot himself again, in the
heart.
The World Church of the Creator
It is generally argued that Smith's crimes were related to his affiliation with the white supremacist organization called World Church of the Creator, which views him as a martyr. The group argued that Smith believed himself to be a soldier of the so-called Racial Holy War Movement and, as a student at IU-Bloomington[?], he was known for promoting racism.
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