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 Man Sentenced To Double Life Terms In Gay
Alabama Man's Murder
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: September 6, 2007 - 5:00 pm ET
(Bay Minette, Alabama) A 21 year old man has been
sentenced to two consecutive live terms for the killing of a gay man
in 2004.
Robert Holly Lofton Porter pleaded guilty
Wednesday to intentional murder in the slaying of Scotty Joe Weaver.
Prosecutors said the murder was motivated in
large part because Weaver was gay.
Lofton was the second of three people to be
sentenced.
In May, Christopher Gaines, 22, was sentenced to
life without parole after pleading guilty. (story)
Holly Lofton Porter, the third person charged, is
awaiting trial.
Weaver was attacked and murdered in his trailer
home in July 2004. He was 18 years old.
His body was then carted to a quiet dirt road
where his killers set it on fire and then casually drove off, after robbing him
of between $65 and $80.
A man driving an all-terrain vehicle discovered
Weaver's severely burned and decomposed body
Two of the accused, Gaines and Kelsay were
Weaver's roommates. Porter is described as a friend of the pair who spent a
considerable amount of time at Weaver's home.
Police said all three suspects were out of work,
and Weaver was paying the bills at their home.
Gaines and Kelsay apparently had a romantic
relationship with each other, investigators said, adding that it appeared the
trio plotted Weaver's death several days before the killing.
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