Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was standing on the second-floor balcony outside Room 306 when he was shot by a sniper's bullet at 6:01 p.m. CST

. After being shot, King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital in Memphis, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.

. The assassin, James Earl Ray, fired the fatal shot from a rooming house across the street from the motel