Washington DC Incidents

Washington DC Incidents ---

*Timeline

4 killed,  5 injured, 14 attacks February 23-April 19, 1993 James Swann Drive-By Shotgun Domestic Terrorist Blamed Voices  James Swann, an African American with an associates degree in computer science drove to Washington DC to carry out drive by shooting attacks on pedestrians in the Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights neighborhoods. Swann would slow his car down next to a pedestrian and fire a 20-gauge shotgun at the target before driving away. Four people were killed and five injured in 14 attacks by Swann before he was apprehended by the Metropolitan Police on April 19, 1993. Swann was found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to Saint Elizabeths Hospital. He claimed to have been driven to the killings by voices in his head, including that of the ghost of Malcolm X, who told him to kill people in Northwest Washington—the "civil rights side of town"—because they had been responsible for the civil rights leader's assassination in 1965.