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The Binghamton shootings took place on Friday, April 3, 2009, at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, United States. At approximately 10:30 a.m. EDT, Jiverly Antares Wong (aka Jiverly Voong), a naturalized American citizen from Vietnam, entered the facility and shot numerous people inside. Wong had taken English language classes there from January to March 2009 before dropping out.

He shot students and a teacher who were in his former classroom. The shooter killed 13 people and wounded four others, before committing suicide. The injured people, aged from twenty to mid-fifties, were treated for gunshot wounds at Wilson Medical Center in Johnson City and Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital in Binghamton. It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history and the worst mass killing in the state of New York since the September 11 attacks.

The American Civic Association in Binghamton provides citizenship, cultural, and language assistance to the local immigrant community.

The perpetrator was 41-year-old Jiverly Antares Wong (December 8, 1967 – April 3, 2009), a resident of Johnson City, New York. Wong was born into an ethnic Chinese (Hoa) family in South Vietnam. He and his parents, Henry Voong and Mui Thong, immigrated to New York in the late 1980s; he moved to California some time later. In 1992, Wong was arrested there and convicted of a misdemeanor charge of fraud for forgery. Wong became a naturalized American citizen in November 1995; the following year, he registered a gun in Broome County, New York. Sometime after that, he left the United States to live in Ottawa, Ontario in Canada.

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Several sources suggested possible motives for Wong's attack, including feelings of being "degraded and disrespected" for his poor English language skills, depression over losing his job, and difficulty in finding work in New York.[31] A few years before the killings he had worked as an engineer at Endicott Interconnect Technologies, a high-tech electronics company. In 2004 the company laid off five percent of its workforce. A co-worker from that time said of him, "He was quiet—not a violent person" and "I can't believe he would do something like this".

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The Binghamton Police Chief Joseph Zikuski said, "From the people close to him ... this action he took was not a surprise to them." Wong had allegedly made comments such as, "[color="Red"]America sucks," and talked about assassinating the president to his former co-workers at Shop Vac.

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