Jury: Oklahoma man guilty of murder, hate crime in slaying

Source: Associated Press

Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press
 Updated 5:07 pm, Wednesday, February 7, 2018

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Jurors convicted an Oklahoma man of murder and hate crime charges Wednesday for fatally shooting his Lebanese neighbor after bombarding him with racial and anti-Muslim insults in a long-running feud with his family, who are Christian.

Stanley Vernon Majors, 63, was found guilty in the August 2016 shooting death of Khalid Jabara, 37, outside his Tulsa home. Majors also was convicted of threatening an act of violence. Jurors deliberated for nearly 2 ½ hours before returning the verdict.

Prosecutors said Majors spent years in conflict with the Jabara family, often hurling racial and religious epithets at his next-door neighbors.

"Today is vindication for this family," Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler told The Associated Press after the verdict. "It has certainly been an issue that's ... exposed an ugly but real segment of the population whose prejudice oftentimes dictates their actions toward other human beings."

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