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Jun 8, 2021 | Features
Activists march in response to the Atlanta spa shootings that killed eight in March. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images
by PETER DORFMAN
On July 4, 1999, Liana Zhou was driving her son home from a piano lesson when she found East Third Street blocked by police. They were investigating the drive-by killing of Won-Joon Yoon, an Indiana University graduate student who was shot by a white supremacist gunman as he was leaving the Korean United Methodist Church.
“I’m still processing it how random it was,” says Zhou, now director of the Library and Special Collections at IU’s Kinsey Institute. “Anyone could have been the target even in beautiful, progressive Bloomington.”