Patricia Soltysik
American criminal
Died when: 24 years 0 days (288 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Patricia Monique Soltysik (May 17, 1950 – May 17, 1974) was an American woman who was best known as a co-founder and activist in the Symbionese Liberation Army, a small leftist terrorist group based in Berkeley and Oakland, California.
She participated in the group's violent activities, including armed bank robbery.She was one of six SLA members who died in Los Angeles in May 1974, during a shootout with the Los Angeles Police Department.
The house where the members had gone to ground accidentally caught fire.Donald DeFreeze committed suicide by gunshot before the fire engulfed him.
Camilla Hall and Nancy Ling Perry were fatally shot by police while leaving the house and brandishing pistols.According to later testimony by Patty Hearst, who had joined the SLA in 1974, Soltysik was responsible for killing Marcus Foster, the black Superintendent of Oakland Public Schools in November 1973.
