Won-Joon Yoon

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Won-Joon Yoon (died 4 July 1999) was a Korean graduate student at Indiana University, studying computer science in the late 1990s, when he was murdered by white supremacist Benjamin Nathaniel Smith.

Smith, a member of the white hate group World Church of the Creator, went on a killing spree for four days from Friday, 2 July 1999 to Monday, 5 July 1999 across two states - Illinois and Indiana - targeting random non-whites and religious Jews. Mr. Yoon was killed as he was walking on his way to attend religious services at the Korean United Methodist Church. In the course of the spree, Smith murdered one other - Ricky Byrdsong, former Northwestern University head basketball coach - and injured seven others, including six Orthodox Jews and an African-American minister, before killing himself as his capture became imminent.