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For years, the Jabara family says, their neighbor terrorized them.
He called them names -- "dirty Arabs," "filthy Lebanese," they said.
He hurled racial epithets at those who came to work on their lawns, they alleged.
He ran Haifa Jabara over with his car and went to court for it.
And it all came to a head last week when the man, Stanley Vernon Majors, walked up to the front steps of the family home and shot and killed Khalid Jabara, police said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/us/tulsa-arab-american-shooting-trnd/index.html
UnFrickin'believable. Or maybe all too predictable.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Trump and all Republicans are to blame for this.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)The victim called 911 shortly before the shooting to report his neighbor -- who was convicted in CA of assault with a deadly weapon and is awaiting trial for a hit-and-run that injured the victim's mother last year -- had a gun and someone had been banging on their window. Police dropped by but said they couldn't do anything
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)and attacking his mother, was now armed. Khalid called the police stating this man had a gun and that he was scared for what might happen, his sister, Victoria Jabara Williams, wrote on Facebook. The police came and told him there was nothing to be done. Minutes later, Khalid was talking on the phone with his family when he stepped outside to get the mail. Majors was waiting for him, police say ...
Mans unusual fixation with Lebanese neighbors led to killing, Tulsa police say
By Michael E. Miller August 16 at 8:24 AM
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)that lasted several hours ... Majors is accused of shooting and killing his neighbor Friday night on the victims front porch ... Majors is awaiting trial for an aggravated assault charge involving the Jabara's mother ...
Police identify victim killed in south Tulsa shooting
Updated: Aug 14, 2016 - 5:51 PM
snooper2
(30,151 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)And why was the trial for that crime postponed until next march, before this latest crime?
(edit to correct)
snooper2
(30,151 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)dembotoz
(16,808 posts)something like a video zoo.
seeing young gang bangers who become old in the cage.
death can be glamorous
growing old in a cage? not so much
malaise
(269,057 posts)When did he get the gun - after he ran over the lady?
catbyte
(34,403 posts)of value in his entire life, so he looks to the color of his skin as a point of pride--something he had NOTHING to do with. It's absolutely pathetic. HE'S absolutely pathetic. I hope he never breathes free air again.
sarisataka
(18,663 posts)The death penalty is wrong.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)After the shooting, officers found Majors hiding behind a tree at a library.
Really, this "you can't make this shit up" fact qualifies because no author writing a work of fiction would EVER write that the villain committed murder and then ran and hid behind a tree at the library.
If true, it's almost as if he got the idea from some bad Hollywood action film, where the 'bad guys' hide behind the tree, and nobody finds them, and viewers groan at the lameness of the story. Yet, seems like that's just what this guy did.
Demonaut
(8,919 posts)the police and the legal system gave him permission to kill
they only enhanced his power over that family
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Justice fails yet another family, just as they do with victims of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and child abuse.
Coital mistakes like this are allowed to just get away with whatever violent crime they want - repeated abuse, attempted murder, stalking, etc - until they straight up kill someone.
I'm so tired of reading about shit like this. How many dead women, children and other victims of violent crime need to keep filling our morgues before we put a lid on good ol' boy fucks like this?
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)the police would have handcuffed him and taken him to the station. At least they should have had a conversation with Majors, but this is Oklahoma and that won't happen here.
I can assure you Trump will win this state by double digits. They hate Obama like crazy here, and it is totally racial.
Kingofalldems
(38,459 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)and the police couldn't stop that?
That's absurd. This is another NRA murder. Gun and public safety laws should have stopped this.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He never should have been walking around free in the first place after the first incident.