On the evening of 29 July 1900, Umberto was assassinated in Monza. The king was shot four times by the Italian-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci. Bresci claimed he wanted to avenge the people killed in Milan during the suppression of the riots of May 1898. Commenting about the 1969 book "Killing No Murder" by Edward Hyams, the Canadian critic George Fetherling in "The Book of Assassins" wrote that the description by Hyams of Umberto I "is so harsh that one is left to marvel that only three people tried to kill him".