Teen Who Shot & Killed Gay Classmate Sentenced To 21 Years, Victim's Father Calls Jurors 'Incompetent'

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An Oxnard teenager was sentenced to 21 years in prison today for the fatal shooting of a gay classmate.

Brandon McInerney, now 17-years-old, pulled a gun from his backpack in a computer lab at E.O. Green Junior High School on February 12, 2008 and shot 15-year-old Larry King in the back of the head twice. King died from his wounds. McInerney was 14-years-old at the time of the murder, which occurred after days of conflict between the two teens.

An L.A. County judge issued the sentence one month after McInerney agreed to plead guilty to second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter, reports L.A. Times.

The suspect did not address the court on Monday, but the victim's father did. Greg King read a "biting four-page statement to the court" before McInerney's sentencing, calling the jurors "incompetent" for failing to reach a verdict, according to L.A. Now. Greg also lashed out at McInerney, his family, school officials and the media. If conducted, a second trial could have resulted in a life sentence, but prosecutors agreed to not move forward after a mistrial due to a hung jury during the first trial.

Greg also read a statement from King's mother, Dawn King, during the emotional hearing. "I will never forgive you for what you did murdering my son Larry, " Dawn said in her statement," reports Ventura County Star. "You took it upon yourself to be a bully and to hate a smaller kid, wanting to be the big man on campus."

McInerney never took the stand during the trial, but his attorney said the teen is deeply remorseful for his actions.

L.A. Now details the source of conflict between McInerney and the late King.

Students and teachers at the trial testified that King had been dressing in women's accessories and wearing makeup, and was flirting aggressively with male students on campus who did not want the attention.

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By Lauren Lloyd in News on December 19, 2011 12:29 PM 0 Comments

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Neckbeardimus_Maximus

21 years for something he did when he was 14? That's an unusually long sentence for a juvenile and it's obvious the judge was only that harsh because a gay person was the victim, especially considering the fact that the gay kid had been antagonizing him by "flirting aggressively."

Alessandra

When an assistant principal who is supposed to protect children from every type of violence, does the opposite, enables the perpetrator, abandons the victim, lets violence escalate to very high-risk situations, it is the adult who has failed most of all, and has the most criminal mind, exactly because they are an adult and are legally in charge of the children.

Does anyone think kids should be routinely damaged emotionally and psychologically in their school environment? If the environment, meaning the slime of adults in the school, condemns a kid to be tormented, bullied, and abused, by their neglect and collusion with the bullies, it's a natural instinct to fight back to stop the abuse. A kid with a troubled past and all kinds of problems may think to pick up a gun.

Two lives ruined by a slime of a lesbian assistant principal who coddled and promoted the sexual harassment, neglecting and abandoning the victim to increasing levels of distress, anguish and humiliation.

Two lives ruined by society's destructive homosexual agenda.

And what action did liberals take in regard to this slime of a lesbian
asst principal? They gave her a promotion! Just like in the Catholic
Abuse scandal, shift them around.

Can you imagine if a 14-year-old black boy had been called racial slurs, was repeatedly taunted, harassed, demeaned and disrespected by a white boy with a deformed psychology about race, with full support and collusion from the white assistant principal, and then finally one day, he pulled the trigger on the white boy, that he would receive 21 years of prison?

Never.