Richard Baumhammers- Racist attorney turned spree killer.
The creepy-looking dude featured here was an American attorney who worked with immigrants. He was very racist and began to take his racism out on innocent people of Jewish faith and various descents.
This former attorney began spree killing on April 28th, 2000, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killing five and leaving one person paralyzed.
Keep reading to learn about his crimes and what lead him down such a dark path.
Early life
Richard Baumhammers had successful and well-liked parents. Andrejs and Inese Baumhammers were Lutheran immigrants who fled from the Soviet Occupation of Latvia to Pennsylvania where their son was born. They became faculty members at the University of Pittsburgh’s School for Dental Medicine and opened their own successful dental practice a few years later.
Richard also had an older sister who was born in 1963.
Richard complete high school in 1983 and graduated from Kent State University in Ohio. After much academic success, he started attending Cumberland Law School in Birmingham, Alabama. He was described by his peers as “gregarious, a good student, and top of the third of his class”.
Richard graduated from Cumberland and attended University of Pacific’s McGeorge…
