In Omaha, Nebraska, on this date in 2007, Ethiopian-born grocery owner of Bob's Food Mart at 16th and Fort streets, Kassahun Geshime (spelled in some news reports as Goshime) was tied up inside his store and robbed by two white males. There was an explosion and fire, but Mr. Geshime managed to get out of the building before the explosion. Omaha Police say that the armed robbery, assault and arson was a hate crime. Apparently racial slurs were written on Mr. Geshime's home and business weeks before the robbery, assault, and arson. Mr. Geshime owned the store for just four months prior to the robbery and arson. His store had to be demolished, and he and his family decided to relocate to Atlanta because, following the hate crime, Mr. Geshime's wife no longer felt safe in Omaha.

In West Hills, California, on this date in 2008, a flammable object was thrown at the Jewish Community Center. Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime. No injuries or damages were reported.

On this date in 2009 in Mountainhome, Pennsylvania, a white man, Ian Seagraves, 17, of Cresco, was arraigned as an adult before Mountainhome Magisterial District Judge John Whitesell, for the gay hate-crime-robbery-murder of Michael Scott Goucher, 21, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Goucher disappeared on February 3, 2009, and his body was found in a wooded area off Snow Hill Road in Price Township southeast of Scranton, on February 11, 2009. Typical of "overkill", a common feature of hate crime homicides, Mr. Goucher was stabbed some 45 to 50 times, including in his neck. Seagraves—whose MySpace nickname is "Throat Stabba"—and Shawn Nicholas Freemore, 19, a white man from Price Township, both stand accused of luring Mr. Goucher—who was a two-year Army veteran—under the guise of meeting Freemore for sex, and then murdering and robbing him. Neither Seagraves nor Freemore were charged with a hate crime. Both were charged with murder, aggravated assault, robbery, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, and conspiracy. Freemore has a criminal history including burglary, retail theft, and drug paraphernalia possession, and he told police that he and Seagraves were "tripping" on drugs when they conceived of the plan to kill Michael Goucher.

In 2009 on this date at the Walk In The Woods Motel in Woodford, Vermont, Donald R. Odell, 45, of Woodford, allegedly assaulted a black man, Derek Okundaye, 38, also of Woodford, in the head and body with a crowbar after an argument in which Odell is accused of yelling a racial slur at Mr. Okundaye. The Rutland Herald reported that police expected Odell to be arraigned out of the Bennington District Court on aggravated assault and hate-crime charges on February 19, 2009.