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Source: Reuters
Texas teen sentenced to 38 years for murdering Iraqi immigrant
DALLAS | BY LISA MARIA GARZA
A Dallas jury sentenced a teenager to 38 years in prison on Tuesday for murdering an Iraqi immigrant as he took family pictures while experiencing snow for the first time.
Nykerion Nealon, 19, was convicted on Monday of fatally shooting Ahmed al-Jumaili, 36, in March 2015 in the parking lot of his apartment complex.
Al-Jumaili had only been in the United States for about three weeks and authorities had thought the case might have been a hate crime. They later determined Nealon did not know al-Jumaili's ethnicity and said he may have been trying to retaliate for a shooting at his girlfriend's apartment.
Prosecutors said Nealon, who was 17 years old at the time, fired 14 rounds from an AK-47, striking al-Jumaili, who was in the snow with members of his family, once in the chest.
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Chan790
(20,176 posts)Considering that the perpetrator is black, over 18 and a murderer...I would have expected they'd have had him half-way down the green mile before the jury was even selected.
TX executes people, black people in particular, like they think the sun may not rise if they don't make their monthly human sacrifice.
Matrosov
(1,098 posts)That might have earned him some brownie points with someone
linuxman
(2,337 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Your attempt to make this about race = massive fail.
Fix The Stupid
(948 posts)See how stupid that sounds?
Why is your statement OK, but mine would be grounds for termination?
snooper2
(30,151 posts)but you failed with reply, next time!
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philosslayer
(3,076 posts)Not even going to acknowledge just how wrong you are? Or do you specialize in posting erroneous posts and then running away?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Ah well, irrelevant at this point. Got the bad guy. Nothing further to be seen or said.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Bucky
(54,041 posts)Why are yall ever surprised at the violent levels of dumbass we keep reaching?