British customs officer Ebenezer Richardson fires blindly into a crowd during a protest in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_End,_Boston" id="mwTQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="North End, Boston">North End</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Boston">Boston</a>, fatally wounding 11-year-old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Seider" id="mwTw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Christopher Seider">Christopher Seider</a>; the first American fatality of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution" id="mwUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>.<sup about="#mwt59" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"USA1stBastardCop"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-USA1stBastardCop-9"}}' id="cite_ref-USA1stBastardCop_9-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_22#cite_note-USA1stBastardCop-9" id="mwUQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUg">[9]</span></a></sup>