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♦ July 18, 2010:
45-year-old Byron Williams, described by his mother as angry at left-wing politicians, opened fire on California Highway Patrol officers on an Oakland freeway early Sunday and was hit by return fire while wearing body armor, authorities said. ...
♦ May 22, 2010:
Census worker Victoria Helen Roger-Vasselin, 67, is shot dead by police. Her husband had brandished a rifle, yelled that he would never answer questions, and threatened the life of a census worker at their home in Yuba City, California, and then made similar threats against police, who shot him when he wouldn't put down his weapon. ...
♦ May 20, 2010:
45-year-old Jerry Kane and his 16-year-old son shoot and kill police officers Brandon Paudert and Bill Evans in West Memphis. The elder Kane was well-known in local circles of the radical right, anti-government, and "sovereign citizen" movements. He was an active poster on Glenn Beck’s “9/12 Project” website, and a big fan of Alex Jones. ...
♦ Mar. 4, 2010:
John Patrick Bedell opens fire at the Pentagon, injuring two guards before being shot dead himself. Bedell “appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings,” the Christian Science Monitor reports. ...
♦ Feb. 18, 2010:
Internal Revenue Service manager Vernon Hunter is killed by businessman Joe Stack's kamikaze attack on a federal office building in Austin, Texas. The political views in Stack's rambling suicide note seem off the wall in ways that defy categorization as right or left, but he is widely and immediately hailed as a hero across the radical right-wing, specifically because his attack was against IRS offices. ...
♦ Aug. 4, 2009:
Jody Billingsley, Elizabeth Gannon, and Heidi Overmier are murdered at a Pittsburgh fitness club. The killer, George Sodini, is widely described in media as profoundly lonely, but some news accounts also mention his blog's racist jokes, comments on the "liberal media," the "Obama economy", and the election of "The Black Man" in 2008. ...
♦ June 10, 2009:
Security guard Stephen Johns is shot and killed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, by James von Brunn, a white supremacist, anti-Semitic birther with a long record of arrests and violent tendencies. ...
♦ May 31, 2009:
George Tiller, a physician known for performing emergency late-term abortions, is shot and killed inside his church in Wichita. His assassin, Scott Roeder, is a self-described "sovereign citizen" linked to the anti-government Freemen group, who posted on the Operation Rescue website, and has a history of mental illness. ...
♦ April 25, 2009:
Sheriff's deputies Burt Lopez and Warren "Skip" York, on a domestic violence call, are shot and killed by Joshua Cartwright, who is killed as police return fire. Cartwright's widow tells investigators that he "believed the government was conspiring against him", and that he was "severely disturbed" that Barack Obama had been elected President. ...
♦ April 4, 2009:
Pittsburgh police officers Eric Kelly, Steve Mayhle, and Paul Sciullo are killed by gunman Richard Poplawski. The killer is described in media accounts as a white supremacist who had posted a Glenn Beck video to one of the numerous hate sites he frequented, and who was worried by the false right-wing meme that President Obama is preparing to confiscate everyone's guns. ...
♦ Feb. 26, 2009:
College students Nicolas Pablo Corp-Torres and Racine Balbontin-Aragondona are shot and killed and three others are wounded by Danny Baker. He is described in news accounts as a Republican Party activist, reportedly driven by racism, who targeted his victims because they were Chilean. ...
♦ Jan. 21, 2009:
Arlindo DePina Goncalves is killed by white supremacist Keith Luke, who also kills a woman who hasn't been publicly named because she was raped, and shoots her sister in the back. Luke, who sports a swastika on his forehead, commits his crimes the day after Barack Obama's inauguration, and tells police he was "fighting extinction" of the white race and planned to kill as many blacks, Hispanics and Jews as possible before killing himself. ...
♦ Dec. 9, 2008:
Millionaire neo-Nazi James G. Cummings is shot and killed by his wife, Amber Cummings, after what she describes as years of domestic abuse. Investigators find a cache of "radiological dispersal device components and literature, and radioactive materials" for constructing a dirty bomb, and describe Cummings as "a lone, disturbed individual". His wife says that he had been especially furious in recent weeks over the election of Barack Obama. ...
♦ Aug. 13, 2008:
Bill Gwatney, chair of the Alabama Democratic Party, is shot and killed at Party headquarters in Little Rock. Not much has been learned or revealed about his killer, Timothy Dale Johnson, except that he owned at least two pistols and 13 long guns, and was a member of a local gun club. ...
♦ July 28, 2008:
Churchgoers Linda Kreager and Greg McKendry are shot and killed and five others are wounded at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, by gunman Jim David Adkisson. The murderer later tells police that he targeted Unitarians because of the church's "liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed". In the gunman's home, police find a collection of right-wing literature including Let Freedom Ring by Sean Hannity, The O'Reilly Factor by Bill O'Reilly, and Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder by Michael Savage. ...