On this date in 1998, The Baltimore Sun reported that Leonard "Lynn" Vines, 32, a cross-dressing East Baltimore native, was accosted in front of his cousin's home by a group of ten to twenty people asserting that “we don't allow no drag queen faggots in this neighborhood” and shot six times. Mr. Vines survived the October 28, 1998, attack, which police investigated as a hate crime, and he received an outpouring of support from about 300 people who attended a rally on November 6, 1998, to decry the hate crime attack. Paul Bishop, 21, of Baltimore, was charged with attempted murder.

In Fort Dodge, Iowa (Webster County), on this date in 2008, Mark Hennings was sentenced to ten years in prison for running over a 12-year-old black boy who was walking with friends near the Fort Dodge Public Library on June 2, 2007, solely because of the boy's race. Hennings, who is white, had earlier threatened the group with a knife.

In Berlin, Connecticut on this date in 2008, a 28-year-old black man whose identity has not been released by the police, was savagely beaten and robbed allegedly by four white men—one of whom had been the victim's former co-worker—Colin McBriarty, 19, Kyle McBriarty, 22, Paul Russo Jr., 21, all of Berlin, and suspected white supremacist, Adam Howick, 21, of New Britain, Connecticut. Lured by the promise of a party by one of the men, the victim told police he fought for his life. On January 30, 2009, Kyle McBriarty, Russo, and Howick were charged with second-degree robbery, third-degree assault, first-degree criminal mischief, unlawful restraint, second-degree intimidation based on bigotry and bias, disorderly conduct, sixth-degree larceny, falsely reporting an incident, second-degree false statement as well as conspiracy charges for each of the other charges. Colin McBriarty—who was in jail pending trial on an unrelated domestic violence charge when his co-conspirators were arraigned in the Superior Court in New Britian—was to be charged with the same charges as his co-conspirators on February 18, 2009.

In Patchogue, Long Island, New York, on this date in 2008, an Ecuadorian immigrant who lived in the United States for 16 years, Marcelo Lucero, 37, of Patchogue, was stabbed to death by one of seven teenagers (six of them white) who drove around Patchogue trollling for a Latino victim. Mr. Lucero died on the driveway of his friend whose house he was walking to at the time he was attacked. Jeffrey Conroy, 17, of Medford, New York, was charged with first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime; the six other teenagers were charged with first-degree gang assault as a hate crime. Those six teenagers are: Jordan Dasch, 17, of Medford (who has referred to himself as a "Nazi Jew"); Anthony Hartford, 17 (Date of Birth: June 11, 1991), of Medford; Nicholas Hausch, 17, of Medford; Christopher Overton, 16, of East Patchogue; Jose Pacheco, 17, of East Patchogue, who is a black Puerto Rican; and Kevin Shea, 17, of Medford. Overton has a prior history of violence: he was convicted of burglary for his role in a fatal attack in May 2007 when a 38-year-old East Patchogue father of a three-year-old was shot dead at his home during a robbery by a group of teenagers which included Overton. At the time of Mr. Lucero's murder, all of the defendants were students at Patchogue-Medford High School; and Jeffrey Conroy, who sports a swastika tattoo on his right thigh, was a star wrestler, a star football player, and a lacrosse player there. All initially pleaded not guilty. Authorities said the defendants had accosted other Latinos in the area immediately prior to Mr. Lucero's murder. So common were group attacks on Latinos by teenagers that a racist slang term was coined for them called "beaner jumping." On November 5, 2009, Nicholas Hausch pleaded guilty in Suffolk County Court to first-degree gang assault as a hate crime, second-degree attempted assault as a hate crime and fourth-degree conspiracy; and on March 29, 2010, he testified against the others stating that he and his companions had targeted Latinos with violence. Hausch is to be sentenced on October 14, 2010. Likewise, on December 2, 2009, Jose Pacheco pleaded guilty to gang assault as a hate crime and he too agreed to testify against the remaining defendants. On February 19, 2010, Kevin Shea pleaded guilty to gang assault as a hate crime, conspiracy and other charges; and, on September 1, 2010, Shea was sentenced to eight years in prison for the gang assault hate crime charge. On February 25, 2010, Jordan Dasch, 19, the driver of the car who drove the group to Mr. Lucero, pleaded guilty to gang assault as a hate crime and he, along with three others (Anthony Hartford, Kevin Shea and Jose Pacheco), admitted they had participated in earlier assaults on Latinos on Long Island for months before Mr. Lucero was murdered. On February 11, 2010, State Supreme Court Justice Robert Doyle ruled Conroy's comment to police only minutes after the attack that "I stabbed him" would be permitted at Conroy's trial. Contradicting testimony from co-defendants, physical evidence (in the form of his bloody DNA on the murder weapon), and his own statements and written confession to police, Jeffrey Conroy testified at his trial stating that Christopher Overton had stabbed Mr. Lucero after Kevin Shea punched Mr. Lucero in the nose. On April 19, 2010, a jury convicted Conroy, 19, of manslaughter as a hate crime, but the 12-person jury acquitted him of second-degree murder. The jury also convicted Conroy of of first-degree gang assault and fourth-degree conspiracy for Mr. Lucero's death; and, Conroy was also convicted of three counts of second-degree attempted assault as a hate crime for attacks on three other Hispanic men in early November, 2008. Conroy could have received between eight to 25 years in prison for his manslaughter conviction; he was sentenced on May 26, 2010 to 25 years in prison. On May 25, 2010, in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, New York, Christopher Overton, 18, pleaded guilty to gang assault, conspiracy and attempted assault as a hate crime. At the time Overton pleaded guilty to the crimes related to Mr. Lucero's death, he was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to burglary in May 2007. For Overton's crimes related to the case involving Mr. Lucero, he was handed a six-year prison sentence on August 25, 2010. Finally, on June 2, 2010, the last of the defendants, Anthony Hartford, also pleaded guilty to gang assault as a hate crime and other charges; Hartford was sentenced on August 25, 2010, to seven years in prison.

On this date in 2008, in Longview, Washington, David Lee Katon, 28, of Clatskanie, Oregon, was arrested and charged with malicious harassment (a hate crime), assault and resisting arrest for allegedly slapping an Indian man outside a Longview casino after yelling that the man was a member of al-Qaida.