Assassination of Gregory Williams

Gregory Pedro Williams, First and most well known of the leaders of the Grasslandic Empire, was assassinated on Thursday, 1st January, 1945, at 1:26 p.m. Grasslandic Standard Time in Grassland City, Grassland City Region, while saying a speech. Two guards were behind him. He was shot with an MG36 twice; once in the head and once in the leg. According to a WWII veteran, he said "Our fatherland might be falling, but one day, one day we will remove the British, French and Americans. Our land will rise from the dea-" at that moment he was shot. The guard immediately went into action shooting at the sniper; William Jefferson was shot in the leg. Williams was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced;Jefferson was arrested by the Grassland City Police an hour after the initial shooting.