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Plea hearing delayed for Riverside boy accused of killing neo-Nazi dad
April 17, 2010: A member of the NSM (National Socialist Movement) raises his German-made boot to show the swastika markings on the bottom after stomping on an Israeli Flag. NSM members organize for a rally at a Riverside, Calif. motel in preparation to march on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall in protest of illegal immigration and other party issues.
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April 30, 2011: Riverside, Calif. - Jeff Hall's son sits on the stairs holding his shoe and eating a sandwich while an NSM (National Socialist Movement) member stands near him an hour after a monthly meeting for the NSM California was held in Hall's Riverside home. This is the son who allegedly killed his father.
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Plea hearing delayed for Riverside boy accused of killing neo-Nazi dad
Plea hearing delayed for Riverside boy accused of killing neo-Nazi dad
A Riverside judge has postponed a plea hearing for a 10-year-old boy accused of killing his father two weeks ago. The victim was a rising figure in the white supremacist movement. The defense wants a psychiatric evaluation of the boy.
Authorities say the boy intentionally shot and killed his father, 32-year-old National Socialist Movement leader Jeff Hall, as he sat on a couch in the family’s Riverside home.
The boy appeared in Juvenile Court shackled and wearing a baggy orange juvenile detention shirt. He was calm and attentive. The boy has a history of violent outbursts and was being home-schooled at the time of the murder.
Prosecutor Ambrosio Rodriguez didn’t suggest a motive – but did say Jeff Hall’s neo-Nazi lifestyle is a factor in the case. “I do expect that the NSM issue will become part of the case, I mean it already is. It’s hateful vitriol and raising five children with such unmitigated hate, I don’t see how that doesn’t become an issue when we’re talking about a 10-year-old boy.”
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The boy was apparently trained to use a firearm, and sometimes joined his father on armed, neo-Nazi border patrol-style trips to the California and Arizona deserts. His attorney is expected to enter a plea in July.
The boy’s stepmother faces multiple counts of child endangerment and criminal storage of a firearm, for keeping a loaded handgun where children had easy access.
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