Oklahoma City bombing
On April 19, 1995, American anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh, assisted by Terry Nichols, detonated a makeshift bomb stored in a rental truck parked in front of the Alfred P.... Wikipedia
- Location: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
- Date: April 19, 1995, 9:02 a.m. CDT (UTC-05:00)
- Target: U.S. federal government
- Attack type: Truck bombing, mass murder, domestic terrorism, right-wing terrorism
- Weapons: ANFO fertilizer truck bomb.45 ACP Glock 21 Gen 2 (unused, conceal carried by McVeigh)
- Deaths: 168 (167 directly, 1 indirectly)
- Non-fatal injuries: 684
- Perpetrators: Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols
- Motive: Anti-government sentiment, Retaliation for the Ruby Ridge standoff, Waco siege and Federal Assault Weapons Ban
- Convictions: McVeigh, 11 counts, Nichols, 163 state counts, 9 federal counts
- Data source: DuckDuckGo