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U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Los Angeles teenager sentenced to 21 years for killing gay classmate

A Los Angeles-area teenager was sentenced Monday to 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the killing of a gay classmate.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Teen to prison for killing gay schoolmate

A Southern California teenager will spend 21 years in prison after admitting in a plea bargain Monday he shot a gay classmate when he was 14, authorities said.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Retrial sought in gay student's slaying

Prosecutors said Friday they plan to retry a student who fatally shot a gay classmate at a California junior high school.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Mistrial declared in gay student's slaying

A judge declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict in a case of a student who shot a gay classmate at a California junior high school.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

'Gay panic' defense law to be invoked

Prosecutors say they'll ask a judge in the trial of a California teen accused of killing a gay classmate to instruct jurors to disregard the victim's sexuality.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Trial opens in killing of gay teenager

A California teenager killed a gay classmate with premeditation motivated by extremist beliefs, a prosecutor said as his trial opened Tuesday.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Teen's hate-crime murder trial delayed

The trial of a California teen accused of killing a classmate was delayed so defense lawyers can obtain release of the victim's juvenile records.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Try teen as adult in school killing

A California judge has given the go-ahead to try a 15-year-old as an adult in the death of a gay student who wore makeup, earrings and high heels to school.

Top News // 1 decade ago

D.A.: Nazi material was in suspect's room

Investigators in Oxnard, Calif., said they found white supremacist literature in the bedroom of a student accused of shooting a gay classmate to death.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Hundreds march to remember slain teen

Hundreds of teenagers marched Saturday to honor a Southern California 15-year-old killed in school in an alleged hate crime.

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Try teen as adult in school killing Jul 23, 2009

The E.O. Green School shooting was the February 12, 2008, killing of Lawrence "Larry" Fobes King (January 13, 1993 – February 13, 2008) who was a 15-year-old gay student at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California, United States. He was shot twice by fellow student, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney, and was kept on life support until he died two days later.

McInerney has been charged as an adult with premeditated murder with enhancements of discharge of a firearm and a hate crime. He is being held in lieu of US$770,000 bail, and faces a minimum sentence of 53 years imprisonment to a maximum life sentence.

Newsweek has described the shooting as "the most prominent gay-bias crime since the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard", bringing attention to issues of gun violence as well as gender expression and sexual identity of teenagers.

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