Famous Shootings: Mapped on SpotCrime
Ever wonder where people like JFK, Malcom X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. were shot? SpotCrime has it mapped for you. We have the ability to map and display crimes older than you and me.
We're also the only crime map with a 'shooting' icon. On most maps, a shooting is categorized as an assault, however we think it's important to separate out the shootings. After all, a bullet can travel further and faster than a fist.
Another feature we offer for each crime we geo-locate is Google Street View. The streets of DC have changed drastically since President Garfield's assassination, but you can still give it a look around with google street view.
We've put together a list of shootings below in a SpotCrime Crime List (view the entire list here). Make sure to scroll down to see a complete list and a link to check out each individual crime on SpotCrime.
We're also the only crime map with a 'shooting' icon. On most maps, a shooting is categorized as an assault, however we think it's important to separate out the shootings. After all, a bullet can travel further and faster than a fist.
Another feature we offer for each crime we geo-locate is Google Street View. The streets of DC have changed drastically since President Garfield's assassination, but you can still give it a look around with google street view.
We've put together a list of shootings below in a SpotCrime Crime List (view the entire list here). Make sure to scroll down to see a complete list and a link to check out each individual crime on SpotCrime.
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| SpotCrime Crime List of famous shootings across the world. |
Shootings that Rocked the World
The 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination is upon us next week. The 35th President of the US was sitting in the back of the presidential limousine next to his wife, Jacqueline, when Lee Harvey Oswald fatally sniper shot him in the head on November 22, 1963. There are many conspiracies circling President Kennedy's death, including tie ins with organized crime.
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| Google Street View on SpotCrime of where President Kennedy was fatally shot |
Two days after he fired the fatal shot, Oswald was being led through the basement of the Dallas Police Headquarters in advance of his transfer to the county jail when a Dallas night club owner, Jack Ruby, stepped from the crowd and fatally shot Oswald at point blank range in the chest. The Dallas PD Headquarters has since moved from this location.
Or as most know him, Mahatma Gandhi was fatally shot at Martyr's Column at the Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi, India on January 30, 1948. Gandhi was heading into evening prayer when Nathuram Godse shot him three times at point-blank range. Prior to his death, there had been five unsuccessful attempts to kill Gandhi, the first occurring in 1934.
King, best known for his role in the Civil Rights movement using nonviolent civil disobedience, was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN when he was fatally shot by James Earl Ray. Present day, the Lorraine Motel is the site of the National Civil Rights Museum.
A minister and activist associated with Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism, Malcom X is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in History. He was fatally shot 21 times by three separate gunman in front of a 400 person audience while preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in LA.
Founding member of the most commercially successful band in history, The Beatles, was fatally shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of The Dakota, the building where Lennon lived at the time. Lennon was returning from Record Plant Studio with Yoko Ono, his wife when Chapman fired the fatal shot.
The 16th President of the US was the first American President to be assassinated (an unsuccessful attempt was made on Andrew Jackson in 1835). Lincoln was at Ford's Theatre when the stage actor, John Wilkes Booth, opened fire on the President. Booth committed the crime as part of a larger conspiracy in a bid to revive the Confederate cause.
Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California. He was on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978 when he was fatally shot along with San Francisco Mayor Forge Moscone in City Hall by former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White.
William McKinley was the 25th President of the US and the last president fatally shot. McKinley was shot inside the Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition, a World's Fair held in Buffalo, NY, while shaking hands with the public by Leon Czolgosz. The Temple of Music was torn down when the fair ended, but a small monument marks where the assassination occurred today.
When you hear this name you probably think of the villain in the Disney film Anastasia. However, Rasputin was a real guy! He was a private advisor and mystic to the Romanov Tsar family of Russia. Rasputin was lured to a party at the Yusopov Palace. At first, his murders tried to poison him with cyanide, but after an hour or two, he was shot.
President Garfield is known for the shortest run as president. Four months into his term as the 20th President of the US, he was shot Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Station. The railroad station no longer stands in DC and the street has been renamed. The location of Garfield's assassination is now located at 6th and Constitution Ave. Most people aren't aware an assassination took place at the location when they're there!
As a result of East Coast/West Coast rivalries, two American rappers were murdered. First Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas. In retaliation, Notorious B.I.G was shot 6 months later in a drive by shooting in Los Angeles.
RFK was fatally shot in LA as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel by Huey Long, just 5 years after his brother, JFK, was assassinated in Dallas, TX.
Well known fashion designer, Gianni Versace, was shot dead in his front steps of his Miami Beach mansion, the former Casa Casuarina know known as The Villa by Barton G, after a morning walk in Miami Beach, FL. Police do not have a reason why Versace was killed. His murderer Andrew Cunanan committed suicide on a boat eight days later.
Known as the top Latin artist of the 90's, singer-songwriter Selena didn't live past 1995 to see her induction into the Latin Music Hall of Fame. She was fatally shot by her former fan club president, Yolando Saldivar on March 31, 1995 in a room at the Days Inn hotel off of I-37 in Corpus Christi, TX. The hotel still stands, however they've renumbered the rooms. In 1997, Jennifer Lopez starred in the film 'Selena', a movie about the singer's life.
Bugsy, how most people knew him, was known as one of the most infamous and feared gangsters of his time. He was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas strip and assisted in the development of the Flamingo Hotel. He was fatally shot at the Beverly Hills home of his girlfriend, Virginia Hill in 1947.
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