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Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts) Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:17 PM Aug 2016

Murder charge for Okla. man in slaying of Lebanese neighbor

Source: Associated Press

Murder charge for Okla. man in slaying of Lebanese neighbor

By: Associated Press
Posted: 9:42 PM, Aug 23, 2016ass

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Prosecutors charged a Tulsa man on Tuesday with first-degree murder and committing a hate crime in the killing of his Lebanese neighbor — a culmination of what authorities said was the man's violent feud with the family that spanned several years and included a regular barrage of racial insults and personal confrontations.

Stanley Majors, 61, was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and threatening a violent act in the Aug. 12 fatal shooting of 37-year-old Khalid Jabara. The hate crime charge is a misdemeanor under Oklahoma law and accuses Majors of intimidating and harassing Jabara and his mother, Haifa Jabara, "because of race, color, religion, ancestry and national origin," according to court papers filed Tuesday by prosecutors.

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Majors spent years in conflict with the Jabara family, often hurling epithets such as "filthy Lebanese," ''dirty Arabs" and "Moo-slems" at his next-door neighbors, authorities said. The Jabaras are actually Christian.

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The alleged abuse between the neighbors escalated to the point where Haifa Jabara obtained a protective order in 2013 that required Majors to stay 300 yards away and prohibited him from possessing any firearms until 2018. Majors also had a 2009 felony conviction from California for threatening a crime with intent to terrorize.

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Murder charge for Okla. man in slaying of Lebanese neighbor (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2016 OP

What a disgusting excuse for a human being. nt Xipe Totec Aug 2016 #1

Good. I'd drive to Tulsa every day if I could serve on his jury. sinkingfeeling Aug 2016 #2

Ran over the mom but was free to do more. jtuck004 Aug 2016 #3

I am a bit surprised they charged him with the hate crime law. Behind the Aegis Aug 2016 #4

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

1. What a disgusting excuse for a human being. nt

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Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:27 PM

Aug 2016

sinkingfeeling

(51,445 posts)

2. Good. I'd drive to Tulsa every day if I could serve on his jury.

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Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:41 PM

Aug 2016

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

3. Ran over the mom but was free to do more.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 10:45 PM

Aug 2016

That restraining order didn't do much good.

They let this guy free to continue his campaign of hate until it culminated in this. Wonder if the judge will face anything?

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But last year, Majors was accused of plowing his car into Khalid's mother, Haifa Jabara. She suffered a broken shoulder, among other injuries. After Majors struck her, he kept driving, prosecutors said. Officers who stopped him later reported that he was intoxicated. Prosecutors charged majors last September with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, leaving the scene of a collision violating the protective order and public intoxication.

Majors' conflict with the Jabara family also put him at odds with his husband, Stephen Schmauss, who came to befriend Khalid and thought of him as an apprentice, teaching him how to use power tools and computer circuitry. Last week, Schmauss said his husband had killed his "best friend."
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Schmauss tried to explain Majors' comments, saying his husband is "textbook bipolar" and a diabetic who refuses to take any medication. Schmauss said anything Majors said to the Jabara family was "done under the bipolar situation."

While awaiting trial for assault and battery, a judge freed Majors from jail on $60,000 bond, overruling strong objections by Tulsa County prosecutors, who called him "a substantial risk to the public" and pleaded with the court to set a higher bond of $300,000.

Behind the Aegis

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4. I am a bit surprised they charged him with the hate crime law.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 12:21 AM

Aug 2016

However, I don't think national origin played a part, in all honesty. Had Jabara actually been Muslim, I wonder if the law would have been invoked.

Oklahoma Hate Crime laws do not apply to sexual orientation, nor gender identity.

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