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Won-Joon Yoon, a 26-year-old Korean graduate student, was tragically murdered on July 2, 1999, in Bloomington, Indiana. Yoon had recently completed his master's degree in economics from the University of Illinois at Carbondale and was preparing to start his doctoral studies at Indiana University. On the morning of his death, Yoon was on his way to the Korean United Methodist Church when he was shot twice in the back by Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, a 21-year-old white supremacist, who fired from a p ...
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  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/hatecrimes/stories/hatecrimes070699.htm
  • 1999 Independence Day weekend shootings - Wikipedia
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