'This was his Independence Day'

Smith had history of discipline problems with University

Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, the former University student who killed himself after shooting at least 10 people last weekend, made his white supremacist views known at the University and at Indiana University, where he later enrolled.

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Smith takes his life after police chase

Former University student Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, whose ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Sahr called Smith's shooting spree “his Independence Day,” prophetically fulfilled those words when he killed himself after a police chase in Salem, Ill., late on the Fourth of July.

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