Barnett Slepian

Barnett Slepian was an American physician and abortion provider who lived from 1946 to 1998. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Rochester, New York, he graduated in zoology from the University of Denver and received his medical degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara in 1978. He provided abortions at Buffalo Women Services in Buffalo, New York, and ran a private obstetrics and gynecology practice in Amherst, New York, where he lived. On 23 October 1998 he was killed by a sniper bullet fired through the window of his home, the climax of a series of five sniper attacks in four years in northern New York and Canada. His killer, James Charles Kopp, was arrested in France in 2001, extradited, and convicted of murder.