Trayvon Benjamin Martin (February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012) was a 17-year-old African American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer.
 Martin had gone with his father on a visit to his father's fiancée at her townhouse at The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford.
 On the evening of February 26, Martin was walking back alone to the fiancee's house after purchasing some items at a convenience store.
 The neighborhood had suffered several robberies that year.
 Zimmerman, a member of the community watch, saw Martin and reported him to the Sanford Police as suspicious.
 The police advised Zimmerman to remain in his car until law enforcement arrived, but Zimmerman disobeyed those orders and followed Martin on foot.
 Moments later, an altercation between the two individuals took place and Zimmerman fatally shot Martin in the chest.
Veronica Guerin (5 July 1958 – 26 June 1996) was an Irish crime reporter who was murdered by drug lords. Born in Dublin, she was an athlete in school, and later played on the Irish national teams for both football and basketball.
 After studying accountancy she ran a public-relations firm for seven years, before working for Fianna Fáil and as an election agent for Seán Haughey.
 She became a reporter in 1990, writing for the "Sunday Business Post" and "Sunday Tribune".
 In 1994 she began writing about crime for the "Sunday Independent".
 In 1996 she was fatally shot while stopped at a traffic light.
 The shooting caused national outrage in Ireland.
 Investigation into her death led to a number of arrests and convictions.
William Bastone (born July 24, 1961) is editor and co-founder of The Smoking Gun website.
 In 1997, Bastone and his wife, who is a graphic designer, created The Smoking Gun.
 In 1984, Bastone worked as an investigative journalist for "The Village Voice".
 He started at "The Village Voice" as an intern, then worked his way up to being a contributing writer, then ended as a staff writer and investigative journalist.
 As an investigative journalist, he was responsible for covering City Hall, criminal justice issues, and writing about five of New York's most famous mafia families.
 The SmokingGun.com was then bought by Court TV in 2000, enabling Bastone to quit his job with "The Village Voice".
 He also co-wrote a book titled "The Smoking Gun: A Dossier of Secret, Surprising, and Salacious Documents".
The shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9 , 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a northern suburb of St. Louis .
 Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, 28, a white Ferguson police officer, after Brown was accused of strong-arm robbing a convenience store.
 Brown was accompanied by his friend Dorian Johnson, 22, at the time.
 Wilson alleged that an altercation ensued when Brown attacked Wilson in his police vehicle for control of Wilson's gun until it was fired.
 Brown and Johnson then fled, with Wilson in pursuit of Brown.
 In the entire altercation, Wilson fired a total of twelve bullets; the last was probably the fatal shot.
Patrick Eugene "Dutchy" Holland (died 6 June 2009), was an Irish career criminal, best known for being the first person accused of killing Irish investigative journalist Veronica Guerin, which he denied until his death in prison in England.
Paul Radu is an investigative journalist based in Bucharest, Romania.
 He is the director of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
 He is also one of the cofounders of the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism.
 He investigates transnational crime in Eastern Europe.
 He has received multiple international awards for his journalism.
 He believes that journalists should not be activists, but should rather trust that objective journalism is a sufficient contribution to whatever causes one might otherwise advocate.
 He teaches at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Summer School of Investigative Reporting.
 In 2008, he sat on a Central European Initiative jury to name that year's best investigative journalist; the jury chose Drago Hedl.
 In 2009, he appeared on "48 Hours" investigating sexual slavery and human trafficking in Romania.
 He has also investigated human trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Märet Jonsdotter (1644 – September 1672) was an alleged Swedish witch.
 She is one of the most known victims of the persecutions of sorcery in her country; she was the first person accused of this in the great witch hysteria called "Det Stora Oväsendet" ("The Great Noise") of 1668–1676, and her trial unleashed the beginning of the real witch hunt in Sweden, which was to cause the death of around 280 people in those eight years.
 She was known by the name "Big Märet" because she had a younger sister with the same name called "Small Märet" Jonsdotter.
Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running BBC Television science fiction series "Doctor Who" and two of its spin-offs.
 In the fictional universe of "Doctor Who" and its spin-offs, Sarah Jane is a dogged investigative journalist who first encounters alien time traveller the Doctor while trying to break a story on a top secret research facility, and subsequently becomes his travelling companion on a series of adventures spanning the breadth of space and time.
 After travelling with the Doctor in four seasons of the show they suddenly part ways, and after this she continues to investigate strange goings-on back on Earth.
 Over time, Sarah Jane establishes herself as a committed defender of Earth from alien invasions and other threats, occasionally reuniting with the Doctor in the course of her own adventures, all the while continuing to work as a freelance investigative journalist.
Shortly before midnight on September 11, 2001, Henryk Siwiak (born 1955), a Polish immigrant, was fatally shot on a street in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, where he had mistakenly gone in order to start a new job.
 He was able to make it to the door of a nearby house before he collapsed.
 The killing remains unsolved; he has been described as "the last person killed in New York on 9/11" although his death was unrelated to the terror attacks.
On February 24, 2005, a man shot his wife and son outside the courthouse in Tyler, Texas, then engaged police and court officers in a shootout.
 David Hernandez Arroyo, Sr. opened fire in front of the courthouse with a semi-automatic AK-47 rifle, killing his ex-wife, and wounding his son.
 A downtown resident, Mark Alan Wilson, attempted to intervene but was shot dead.
 Arroyo was fatally shot by police after a high-speed pursuit.

Question: Patrick Holland was the first person accused of killing an investigative journalist, who was fatally shot in what year?
Answer: 1996