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Detroit. 1967-07-25/26. 3. Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film Detroit. Robison family murders. Good Hart. 1968-06-25. 6. Mass murder of family from suburban Detroit while vacationing at cottage.
After a Creek victory at the Battle of Burnt Corn, a band of Creek Red Sticks attacked Fort Mims, in what today is Alabama, killing 400–500 settlers, slaves, militiamen, and Creek loyalists and taking 250 scalps. This action brought the US into the internal Creek War, at the same time as the War of 1812. 400–500 (settlers) 1813: September 1
4. "Sunny Days, Deadly Nights on Mercer Island". Mercer Island, Washington. August 3, 1999 [4] ( August 3, 1999 [4]) A woman's body is found outside of a Seattle night club. The suspect is an affluent and charismatic man named George Russell. 05.
State (s) Michigan. Date apprehended. September 5, 1972. Larry Lee Ranes (March 22, 1945 – November 12, 2023) and Danny Arthur Ranes (October 20, 1943 – January 29, 2022) were American serial killer brothers who committed their crime sprees predominantly in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Larry, a suspect in the murders of five people in the 1960s ...
The second-largest city in Michigan, Grand Rapids recorded a murder rate of 13.8 per 100,000 in 2020, more than double of the United States rate of 7.8 per 100,000. [12] [13] The overall crime rate declined by one-third between 2003 and 2011, [14] but Grand Rapids set a record with 38 homicides in 2020.
Battle Creek is a city in northwestern Calhoun County, Michigan, United States, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 52,731. [8] It is the principal city of the Battle Creek metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Calhoun County.
Cherry Valley massacre. The Cherry Valley massacre was an attack by British and Iroquois forces on a fort and the town of Cherry Valley in central New York on November 11, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War. It has been described as one of the most horrific frontier massacres of the war. [1] A mixed force of Loyalists, British soldiers ...
The Indian Creek massacre was the most significant publicized incident during the Black Hawk War. The killings triggered panic in the settler population who abandoned settlements and sought refuge in frontier forts, such as Fort Dearborn in Chicago. Monuments at the massacre site in Shabbona County Park, the older monument is on the left.