Reno has endured race- and sexual-preference-based murders.
Source: Reno News & Review – When hate comes to town – Feature Story – Local Stories – August 20, 2015
Reports that nine people shot dead in a Charleston, South Carolina, church on June 17 were victims of a hate crime sent ripples of shock through the nation, but especially resonated with the extended Montgomery family in Reno.
It was just after 1 a.m. on Dec. 9, 1988, when Tony Montgomery lay gasping for breath outside his sister’s northeast Reno home. Skinhead Matthew David Faessel, 18, went looking for a black man to shoot after being angered by a woman’s report at a Sparks party that she had been sexually assaulted by a black man. Faessel fired seven shots at Montgomery, 27. One found its mark. Montgomery stumbled across the street and fell at his sister’s door.
“I think I got him,” Faessel screamed. “I must have got him. Look at him run.” Faessel and fellow skinhead Michael Stringer, 16, then exchanged a high five and a Sieg Heil, court records said. Read the rest.
