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.
King was assassinated while he stood on the balcony of room 306 at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968, felled by one bullet. King was rushed to Saint Joseph Hospital, but he could not be saved and passed away shortly after his arrival. His was 39 years old at the time of his death.