where was mlk killed

Martin Luther King Jr. was killed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, while standing on the second‑floor balcony outside his room on April 4, 1968.

Location details

• The Lorraine Motel is in downtown Memphis, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

• King was on the balcony outside room 306 when he was struck by a single rifle shot and mortally wounded.

Brief context

• King was in Memphis to support a strike by Black sanitation workers and was preparing to lead a planned protest march.

• He was rushed from the motel to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Memphis, where he was pronounced dead shortly after the shooting.

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