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The Long List of Murders Committed by White Extremists Since
the Oklahoma City Bombing

Wednesday's mass murder of black churchgoers in Charleston,
South Carolina is the most high-profile example of white
extremist terror in the United States since Timothy McVeigh
killed 168 people in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. But
though not each incident makes national headlines, a tally kept
by the Southern Poverty Law Center indicates that the murder of
law enforcement officials and innocent civilians by racial
supremacists, anti-government paranoiacs, and other believers
in white fringe movements has been depressingly common in the
two decades since Timothy McVeigh's attack. Below (taken from
SPLC's records and confirmed by outside news accounts) is a
list of 33 deadly attacks since Oklahoma City—comprising a
total of 71 victims—carried out or believed to have been
carried out by white extremists.

October 9, 1995. An Amtrak employee is killed when a train
derails near Hyder, Arizona because the track it's traveling on
has been sabotaged. The perpetrators are never found, but
anti-law enforcement propaganda messages from the "Sons of
Gestapo" are found near the scene.

April 12, 1996. A neo-Nazi named Larry Wayne Shoemake, who is
found to have owned at least 22 firearms and an estimated
20,000 rounds of ammunition, kills a black man in a random
Jackson, Mississippi attack.

July 27, 1996 A bomb set by Eric Robert Rudolph, who is
affiliated with the "Christian Identity" fundamentalist
movement, kills one person at the Atlanta Olympics. January 29,
1998. Another bomb set by Rudolph kills a man at a Birmingham
abortion clinic. May 29, 1998. Three militia sympathizers named
Alan Pilon, Robert Mason and Jason McVean fire 29 shots at a
Cortez, Colorado police officer who is trying to apprehend them
because they've stolen a water truck, killing him. The three
evade capture but are believed to ultimately have died in the
desert wilderness surrounding the crime scene.

October 23, 1998. With his wife and children nearby, an
abortion provider in Amherst, New York is shot and killed
through the window of his home by James Charles Kopp.

July 1, 1999. Brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James
Tyler Williams, who also have connections to the "Christian
Identity" movement, kill a gay couple in Redding, California.

July 2-July 5 1999. Neo-Nazi Benjamin Nathaniel Smith kills
black basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong and and a Korean graduate
student and wounds nine other non-white victims in a three-day
shooting spree. August 10, 1999. Neo-Nazi Buford Furrow kills a
Filipino immigrant after firing 70 shots inside a Jewish
community center near Los Angeles.

April 28, 2000. An unemployed immigration attorney named
Richard Baumhammers who believes "non-white immigration" should
be banned shoots and kills five people in the Pittsburgh area.

September 15-October 4, 2001. Mark Stroman, a lifelong criminal
with connections to the Aryan Brotherhood, shoots three South
Asian men in the Dallas area—killing two—in what he describes
as revenge for 9/11.

December 8, 2003. Steven Bixby kills two police officers in
Abbeville, South Carolina during a dispute over the state's
decision to use a 20-foot strip of the Bixbys' land to widen a
highway.

May 24, 2004. Wade and Christopher Lay, a father-son pair
obsessed with the 1993 government siege of the Branch Davidian
compound in Waco, Texas, kill a bank security guard in Tulsa,
Oklahoma.

July 27, 2008. Jim David Adkisson shoots and kills two people
during a childrens' performance of a musical at a Unitarian
Univeralist church in Knoxville, Tennessee, telling police that
he intended to target individuals who had voted for liberals
and Democrats.

January 21, 2009. Neo-Nazi Keith Luke rapes and kills an
immigrant from Cape Verde in Brockton, Massachusetts, then
kills a 72-year-old homeless immigrant. April 4, 2009. Richard
Andrew Poplawski, a frequent poster on the white supremacist
Stormfront website who apparently believes a national "gun ban"
is imminent, kills three Pittsburgh police officers.

April 25, 2009. Joshua Cartwright kills two Okaloosa County,
Florida sheriff's deputies. Per a police report, Cartwright's
wife says he was paranoid about the U.S. government and
"extremely disturbed" by Barack Obama's election. May 30, 2009.
Shawna Forde, Albert Gaxiola, and Jason Bush kill a Latino man
and his nine-year-old daughter in Arivaca, Arizona during a
robbery intended to raise funds for the "Minutemen American
Defense" group. May 31, 2009. Scott Roeder kills Dr. George
Tiller, an abortion provider, in the Wichita, Kansas Lutheran
church where Tiller serves as an usher. June 10, 2009. An
89-year-old white supremacist named James von Brunn kills a
security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. from
point-blank range. Feb. 18, 2010. Joseph Andrew Stack flies a
plane into an Austin, Texas IRS office, killing one person.

May 20, 2010. A father-son pair named Jerry and Joseph Kane
(who conduct "seminars" about how "sovereign citizens" can
evade debt) kill two West Memphis, Arkansas police officers.

September 26-October 3, 2011. Avowed white supremacists David
Joseph Pedersen and Holly Ann Grigsby kill Pedersen's father
and stepmother in Washington, a man they believe is Jewish in
Oregon, and a black man in California.*

August 5, 2012. A white supremacist named Wade Michael Page
kills six people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

August 16, 2012. "Sovereign citizen"-movement adherents Brian
Smith and Kyle Joekel, who are now awaiting trial, allegedly
kill two Louisiana sheriff's deputies in a trailer-park ambush.
September 4, 2012. Christopher Lacy, a software engineer who
lives in a rural trailer and apparently sympathizes with the
"sovereign citizen" movement, shoots a California Highway
Patrol officer who dies the next day.

April 13, 2014. Frazier Glenn Miller, a 73-year-old with a long
history of KKK activity, kills three people in the area of a
Jewish community center and Jewish retirement community in
Overland Park, Kansas.

June 8, 2014. Jerad and Amanda Miller kill two police officers
in a random attack at a pizza restaurant in Las Vegas, then
kill a customer at a Walmart. The Millers had spent time on
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's property during protests related
to Bundy's dispute with the federal government.

September 12, 2014: Eric Frein allegedly shoots and kills a
Pennslyvania state trooper; he's caught 48 days later after
hiding from authorities in "survivalist" fashion in a rural
area. June 17, 2015. Dylann Roof murders nine people at a
historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

July 24, 2015: John Russell Houser, a 59-year-old man with a
history of expressing extremist and anti-feminist beliefs,
kills two women at a screening of the Amy Schumer comedy
Trainwreck in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Nov. 27, 2015: A 57-year-old religious fanatic named Robert
Lewis Dear shoots and kills three people, including a police
officer, at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.

March 20, 2017: A 28-year-old white supremacist named James
Harris Jackson stabs a 66-year-old black stranger to death in
midtown Manhattan.

This article has been updated to include attacks that were not
mentioned in the original post.

*Correction, Feb. 15, 2017: This post originally misstated that
David Joseph Pedersen and Holly Ann Grigsby had killed Grigby's
father and stepmother.