On July 15, 2011, Brittney Fox Watts was in a parking garage at work when she was shot and killed by a security guard. Nkosi Thandiwe also shot two other women besides Brittney. He explained that being an anthropology major in college had made him resent white people. "I was trying to prove a point that Europeans had colonized the world, and as a result of that, we see a lot of evil today."