The 1982 Brownburg, Dakota shootings (locally referred to as simply the '82 incident or the Three Hours of Terror) were a series of attacks perpetrated by anti-government militia against the Dakota town of Brownburg, the seat of Washabaugh County, in February 1982. In the early morning of February 13, beginning around 7:45 a.m. CST, a group of nine militiamen armed with automatic assault weapons stormed a branch of the Dakota State Bank and took eight hostages, one of whom was an undercover police detective. After only an hour, the seemingly impatient militiamen executed all eight of the hostages in cold blood, including the police detective, and fled the bank through a neighboring building, killing two Dakota State Troopers upon exiting. An hour later, the militia stormed a local daycare