As the nation enters the Fourth of July weekend celebrating our nation’s independence from tyranny, a 74-year-old white man in Crete, Nebraska decided that his Hispanic neighbors weren’t ‘Murican enough for him, so he opened fire on them Friday afternoon when 15 people were at the residence, NBC News reports. Seven people, including four children, were injured.
Officials say the shooter, Billy Booth, lived up the street and fired as people gathered in the backyard. At least one of the victims, however, was shot inside the home. After police determined the source of the gunfire, SWAT officers raided Booth’s home where they found him dead of an apparent self-inflicted wound.
Police said they received numerous complaints from the neighborhood regarding Booth, primarily about reckless driving and parking issues, but the victims’ family once reported him telling them to “go home,” “back to where they came from,” and to “Speak English.”