This practice is a collaboration between Sparrow and Volunteers of America Michigan to serve the areaâs homeless, the first such project between a health system and VOAMI in Michigan, and only the second in the nation.
Dr. King's Assassination. Background: On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. As news of King's death spread, violent riots broke out in African American neighborhoods in over one hundred cities across the United States.
On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. James Earl Ray, a career criminal, pleaded guilty to the murder and was convicted shortly thereafter.