Richard Baumhammers

Richard Baumhammers is a white supremacist who went on a shooting rampage targeting ethnic and religious minorities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in April 2000, which left five people dead. Baumhammers murdered an Indian man who was in the U.S. on a work visa, a Vietnamese immigrant, a Chinese immigrant, a Black man and a Jewish woman. Baumhammers also fired shots into two Jewish synagogues and painted a swastika on one of the buildings. He was sentenced to death for his shooting spree.

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