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    Default not good, sad, Teen ‘Killed Boy Because He Was Gay

    US Teen ‘Killed Boy Because He Was Gay’
    so sad.

    A 17-year-old is on trial in California accused of shooting dead his classmate because the boy was gay.



    The crime took place three years ago in 2008 when 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot his then 15-year-old classmate, Larry King, twice in the back of the head.

    The prosecution claims McInerney is a “white supremacist” and the killing of his classmate in an Oxnard school was because the dead boy’s sexuality was against his ideology.

    The defendant, however, says that was not the case, and he shot Larry King because of his unwanted advances.

    McInerney does not deny the killing but argues that the crime was voluntary manslaughter, not murder.

    He did this out of heat of passion. These were two troubled young men and this was a tragedy.

    Scott Wippert, defence lawyer

    While prosecutors argue the shooting was a straightforward hate crime, the defendant says he carried out the shooting “out of passion”.

    The defence dismissed the accusations of links to the white supremacy movement, saying Nazi literature he was found to have was connected with a school project.

    Defence lawyer Scott Wippert told a Los Angeles courtroom that his client had reached emotional breaking point over King’s advances.

    “He did this out of heat of passion,” the lawyer said. “These were two troubled young men and this was a tragedy.”

    But prosecutor Maeve Fox said that was not the case.

    “The evidence in this case will prove to you that this killing was an execution,” she told the jury.

    The defendant is being tried as an adult and faces life imprisonment if found guilty.

    US Teen ‘Killed Boy Because He Was Gay’ | Teen Rebels Teen Information Center, Teen News And Articles

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    Oh hell... that's terrible. Sometimes people act ads if we Germans hadn't made that mistakes with censequences worse enough and they didn't know what's going on.... idiots. I hope that will stop some day.
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    we could be easier, together à deux, instead we're both stressing together alone
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    like the description says, sick sad world. thats gutless pulling out a gun
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    It is impossible for any severed individual to experience pain
    Pleasure, memory, dream or thought of any kind
    This young man will be as unfeeling as unthinking as the dead
    Until the day joins them

    I don't know weather I'm alive or dreaming or dead or remembering
    How can you tell what's a dream and what's real
    When you can't even tell when your awake and when your asleep
    Where am I?


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    And what's weird about that is Los Angeles is actually one of the most pro-homosexuality cities in the US, one of the first to legalize gay marriage, etc. They stand at the front of the movement to support gays, and then this tragedy. It's a damn shame.

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    This is truly depressing.
    Mad world by Gary Jules suddenly popped into my head...

 

 

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