Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 - June 11, 2001) was a United States Army veteran and former security guard who was convicted of detonating a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Building (Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building) in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6. It was the deadliest act of terrorism within the United States prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks (September 11 attacks) and is referred to as the Oklahoma City bombing. McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer, sought revenge against the federal government for the Waco Siege, which had ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years earlier. He also hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted (conviction (law)) of 11 federal offenses, sentenced to death and executed (Capital punishment in the United States) on June 11, 2001. Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier (Michael Fortier (American)) were also convicted as co-conspiritors in the plot.
Subject Name: Timothy James McVeigh
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 1968-04-23
Birth Location: Lockport (city), New York, Lockport, New York, U.S.
Date of death: 2001-06-11
Place Of Death: Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Cause: Execution by lethal injection
Allias Name: Tim Tuttle, Darel Bridges, Robert Kling
Motive: Retaliation for the Waco Siege, Ruby Ridge, other government raids, the Turner Diaries, as well as general U.S. foreign policy
Conviction: Use of a weapon of mass destruction, Conspiracy (Conspiracy (crime)) to use a weapon of mass destruction, Destruction with the use of explosives, 8 counts of first-degree murder
Conviction Penalty: Death by lethal injection
Conviction Status: Executed (Execution)
Education: High school diploma,Bryant & Stratton College (dropped out) (dropped out)
Occupation: United States Army
Parents: William McVeigh , Mildred Noreen Hill