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Balbir Singh Sodhi (July 6, 1949 – September 15, 2001), [1] a Sikh-American entrepreneur and franchisee in Mesa, Arizona, was murdered in a hate crime in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. This was the first of several cases across the United States that were reported to the police as supposed acts of retaliation for the attacks.
Since the United States Congress was established with the 1st Congress in 1789, fourteen of its members have been killed while in office, and fourteen have suffered serious injuries from attacks. The members of Congress were either injured or killed by someone intending serious harm, or there is evidence of lethal intent by an unknown assailant ...
Nijjar was killed in June 2023 outside his gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship, in Surrey, British Columbia. That killing, and Trudeau's suggestion of possible Indian government involvement ...
Heart attack [2] Washington, D.C. U.S. Marguerite S. Church: January 3, 1943 (previously served January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1941) May 5, 1883 Vermilion County, Illinois: 81st (1949–1951) John Lesinski Sr. Democratic Michigan (16th district) May 27, 1950 65 Heart attack [3] Dearborn, Michigan: U.S. John Lesinski Jr. March 4, 1933 January 3 ...
A foiled plot to assassinate a prominent Sikh separatist leader in New York, just days after another activist's killing, was meant to precede a string of other politically motivated murders in the ...
“I was among five potential targets of an assassination plot warned by federal authorities.”
Senior U.S. officials met with Sikh advocates on Thursday to discuss threats facing Sikhs in the United States, including a foiled murder plot against a prominent activist last year, several ...
On April 2, 2021, Noah Green, a 25-year-old black nationalist, killed Capitol Police officer William Evans and wounded a second officer after he deliberately rammed his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. [2] [3] [4] As a result of the attack, the Capitol complex was locked down. [5]