On this date in 2008, in Oxnard, California, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office filed charges of attempted murder with a hate-crime enhancement and use of a firearm against a 14-year-old male who is expected to be tried as an adult. The eighth grade student at the E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California, Brandon David McInerney, is said to have shot a fellow student in the back of the head in front of at least 20 other students, because of the student’s sexual orientation and feminine appearance. Lawrence King, 15, was pronounced brain-dead at St. John's Regional Medical Center on the day he was shot—February 13, 2008. King was taken off of life-supports, some of his organs were harvested for potential transplant, and on February 15, 2008, the medical examiner concluded King’s cause of death was due to head injury. If convicted as an adult as charged, McInerney, who pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and a hate crime, could receive a 50-year to life prison sentence, plus another one- to three-year prison sentence for the hate crime enhancement. Police said they recovered white supremacist and neo-Nazi literature from McInerney's bedroom.

In Lima, Ohio on this date in 2008, Jason Upthegrove, a civil rights activist with the Lima-area chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, received a hangman's noose in the mail allegedly sent by Daniel Lee Jones, 32, of Portland, Oregon. Daniel L. Jones, a white supremacist, was arrested on October 7, 2009, and charged with one count of interference with federally protected activities and and one count of mailing threatening communications. If convicted as charged, Jones could get up to six years in federal prison and receive a fine of up to $350,000. However, on May 17, 2010, Daniel Lee Jones pleaded guilty to using the U.S. Postal Service to send a threatening communication to the president of the Lima, Ohio, chapter of the NAACP. As part of the plea agreement Jones could be sentenced to up to five years in prison and receive a fine of up to $250,000.