Teen Accused Of Murdering Gay Classmate Had Skinhead Literature
The Los Angeles Times is that prosecutors decided to add a hate crime enhancement to the premeditated murder charge against 14-year-old Brandon McInerney, who allegedly gunned down gay junior high school classmate Lawrence 鈥淟arry鈥� King, 15, after investigators discovered a 鈥渢rove鈥� of neo-Nazi literature and drawings in McInerney鈥檚 bedroom.
According to a court document filed by Senior District Attorney Maeve Fox earlier this week, the materials seized from McInerney鈥檚 room included white supremacist literature and drawings concerning 鈥渁 racist skinhead philosophy of the variety espoused by , and others.鈥�
McInerney is awaiting trial as an adult for the Feb. 12 of King, who was shot in the head in a classroom full of students at E.O. Green Junior High School. McInerney fled the scene after the shooting and was apprehended a few blocks away.听 said that King, who had recently revealed that he was gay and started to wear make-up and jewelry, had a verbal confrontation with McInerney regarding King鈥檚 sexual orientation the day before the killing.
McInerney鈥檚 public defender explained that his client had the items only because he was researching a term paper on Adolf Hitler.
The accused killer turned 14, the legal cutoff for charging a juvenile as an adult in California, less than a month before the murder. He could face 50 years to life if convicted, plus one to three years for the hate crime enhancement.
