On this date in 2000 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Ronald Taylor, 39, an African-American man, murdered three white men and seriously wounded two other white men, all solely because of their race. He also set fire to his residence at the Woodside Garden Apartments in Wilkinsburg. Racist and anti-Semitic, Taylor, who stole the gun used in the killings from his mother Shirley, wrote the following in a suicide note which was found in his apartment following his killing spree: “Jesus Christ made a very costly mistake putting white people on the face of the earth.” In other writings Taylor also praised Adolph Hitler and Timothy McVeigh, the domestic terrorist who bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Over 120 people—including 37 children from a day care center—were evacuated when Taylor took refuge (and hostages) in an office building near the locations where most of the shootings took place. Killed by Ronald Taylor were: Joseph Healy, 71, a former Catholic priest and chaplain at Duquesne University, of Wilkinsburg; John Kroll, 55, a father of three and a carpenter and maintenance worker at the apartment building where Taylor lived, from Cabot, Pennsylvania; and Emil Sanielevici, 20, a junior physics major at the University of Pittsburgh who lived in Greenfield, Pennsylvania. Mr. Sanielevici—who was shot in the head at point-blank range as he sat in the drive-through lane at a McDonald’s restaurant and who had lived in Nova Scotia until moving to Pittsburgh in 1995—died the following day on March 2, 2000. Except for Mr. Kroll, who was killed at Taylor’s apartment building, the victims were attacked in either a McDonald’s or a Burger King restaurant in the Wilkinsburg business district. Injured by Taylor were: Steven Bostard, 25, an assistant manager at the attacked McDonald’s fast-food restaurant, of Swissvale, Pennsylvania; and, Richard Clinger, 56, a handyman living in Pittsburgh. On March 10, 2000, then-NAACP President and CEO, Kweisi Mfume, urged then-United States Attorney General Janet Reno, via letter, to prosecute Taylor to the fullest extent of federal law. However, federal prosecution was unnecessary, because on November 9, 2001, Ronald Taylor, 41—who had pleaded innocent by reason of insanity, who had a history of mental illness, and who was diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia—was convicted by a twelve-person jury in an Allegheny County courtroom of the following crimes: three counts of first-degree murder; eight counts of aggravated assault; four counts of simple assault; four counts of terroristic threats; three counts of unlawful restraint; 16 counts of reckless endangerment; one count of arson; one count of ethnic intimidation (a hate crime); one count of causing a catastrophe; one count of risking a catastrophe; and, one count of a firearms violation. On November 11, 2001, Taylor, 41, was sentenced to death.

A six-man, six-woman jury in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan (New York) convicted Steven Johnson, 39, a Black man, after four-and-a-half days of deliberation of attempted murder on this date in 2007. A November, 2004, jury was deadlocked; this was Johnson's second trial. Attempted murder normally brings a sentence of up to 25 years in prison, but prosecutors said Johnson faces a potentially longer sentence, depending on his prior record, because attempted murder as a hate crime is considered a more serious offense than attempted murder. Johnson, an unemployed barber, has a criminal record for weapons and drug arrests dating back to 1985, and the jury found him guilty of shooting patrons at an East Village wine bar on Second Avenue in June, 2002, screaming, “White people are going to burn tonight.” Armed with three pistols, kerosene, and a samurai sword, Johnson shot and wounded three people and sprayed several patrons with kerosene, threatening to set them on fire at Bar Veloce. After his apprehension Johnson, of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, apparently told police that he went to the East Village in search of people partying and that he wanted to kill as many white people as he could.

In Ada, Oklahoma on this date in 2007 Sarah Kaspereit, 21, admitted she had filed a false police report after she told police she was attacked and that an assailant carved the word "lesbian" into her forearm, an allegation that drew national attention. The FBI, investigating the allegation as a hate crime, suspected what turned out to be the truth: Kaspereit had inflicted the injury to herself. Ada Police Chief Mike Miller said he did not intend to file any criminal charges against Kaspereit even though filing a false police report is a criminal offense.

On this date in 2008 in Oviedo, Florida, Andrew Matthews, 15, of Oviedo, was arrested and charged with simple assault with the intentional threat to do violence and trespassing, for his alleged role in hanging a noose from a tree in the front yard of Doreen and Rupert Nelson, an African-American couple, who live along Lake Rogers Circle in the Lake Rogers Estate subdivision of Oviedo. Matthews' trespassing charge was raised to a felony as police added a hate crime enhancement to the charge. However, on May 5, 2008, the hate crime enhancement was dropped against Matthews by the District Attorney’s office, although the charge of misdemeanor trespassing remained open.

In Fridley, Minnesota, (Anoka County) on this date in 2008, Troy Brazelton, 39, was allegedly beaten into a coma that lasted several weeks by Thomas Scott Cretilli, Jr., 25, of Mounds View, who was charged with assault and who faces possible federal hate crime charges because of the incident. Mr. Brazelton, who is black, was playing pool at the Two Stooges Bar and Grill, located at 71718 University Avenue NE, when a group of white men began yelling racial slurs at him. People at the establishment complained and the white men were ejected from the bar. However, when Mr. Brazelton later went outside to smoke a cigarette, he is said to have been attacked in the parking lot by Cretilli.

In Aiken County, South Carolina on this date in 2009, vandals attacked a predominently African-American church, the Family Life Worship Center, spray-painting part of the building, including the letters KKK.

In Galveston, Texas on this date in 2009, two white patrons inside a gay bar called Robert’s Lafitte on Avenue Q were attacked by rock-throwing hate-crime perpetrators. Marc Bosaw, 57, required a dozen staples to close the head laceration he suffered, and James Troy Nickelson, 39, was hit in the jaw. Arrested were three African-American men, brothers Lawrence Henry Lewis III, 20, and Lawrneil Henry Lewis, 18, and their cousin, Alejandro Sam Gray, 17. The three arrested were charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon with hate crime enhancements each, and they could each receive from five years in prison to life in prison if convicted as charged.