Global InformationLockheed Martin shooting information
| Lockheed Martin shooting | |
|---|---|
 Douglas Williams, perpetrator of the shooting | |
| Location | Meridian, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 32°24′38.2″N 88°38′2.3″W / 32.410611°N 88.633972°W |
| Date | July 8, 2003 9:30 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. (CDT UTC-05:00) |
| Target | Coworkers, particularly African Americans |
Attack type | Mass murder, murder-suicide, mass shooting, workplace shooting, hate crime |
| Weapons |
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| Deaths | 7 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 8 |
| Perpetrator | Douglas Williams |
| Motive | Anti-black racism |
The Lockheed Martin shooting occurred on July 8, 2003, at the Lockheed Martin plant in Meridian, Mississippi. The gunman, Douglas Williams, an assembly line worker at the plant, shot 14 of his co-workers with a shotgun, killing six of them,[n 1] before committing suicide. After the shooting, information surfaced depicting Williams' history of making threats and racist comments directed at African-American coworkers. Five of the six killed in the incident were black.
The incident was the deadliest workplace shooting in the United States since December 2000, when Michael McDermott killed seven co-workers at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts.[2][3] Given the nature of the attack and Williams' long-known history of racially-motivated threatening behavior, the incident was described by some at the time as the worst hate crime against African-Americans since the civil rights movement.[4]
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- ^ "Six Dead In Mississippi Massacre". CBS News. July 9, 2003. Archived from the original on November 21, 2003.
- ^ "Mad At The World". CBS News. July 9, 2003. Archived from the original on February 10, 2005. Retrieved September 3, 2009.
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