Shelley Shannon a fracas, Shannon shot Tiller with a semiautomatic pistol. Tiller was later assassinated on May 31, 2009, by Scott Roeder. At her trial in state court, Shannon testified that there was nothing immoral about trying to kill Tiller. The jurors needed only an hour to convict her of attempted murder. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison. While incarcerated in Lansing, Kansas, Shannon signed the Army of God's statement in support of the actions of Paul Jennings Hill, identifying herself as a "prisoner of Christ". On June 4, 1995, she pleaded guilty to setting fires at several abortion clinics
George Middleton (activist) in 1781, but apparently left no children when he died in 1815. Middleton's former home at 5 Pinckney Street is on the Boston Black Heritage Trail. George Middleton (activist) George Middleton (1735 – April 6, 1815) was an African-American Revolutionary War veteran, a Prince Hall Freemason, and a community civil rights activist in Massachusetts. Middleton was one of 5,000 African Americans to serve in the military on the Patriot side of the Revolutionary War, although scant evidence survives about his military service. Colonel Middleton served as commander of the Bucks of America, a Boston-based unit of the Massachusetts militia. Few