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02.11.2009 3:30pm EST
(Oxnard, California) The Ventura County prosecutors office is asking a judge to refuse a defense move to have the Larry King murder case moved to juvenile court – telling the judge that Brandon McInerney planned the killing and shot King “execution style.”
McInerney’s attorney is appealing a ruling last month by Ventura County Superior Court Judge Rebecca Riley rejecting a motion to get files and documents from the district attorney’s office to show how they determined the youth should be tried as an adult.The prosecutor’s office said McInerney has a “racist skinhead philosophy” and that he sat behind the 15-year-old King in class last February 12. Then, without saying anything, he shot King in the back. When King fell to the floor, McInerney got up and fired a “second, coup de grace” shot into the back of King’s head. At the time McInerney was 14.
It was the first time the prosecutor has provided details of the killing. Senior Deputy District Attorney Maeve Fox told The Ventura Star newspaper Wednesday that the district attorney decided to provide the details to back up its assertion the case should be handled in adult court.
McInerney, who turned 15 last month, is charged with first-degree murder and a hate crime.
King often dressed in a feminine manner and told friends that he was gay. Twenty horrified students were in the classroom at the time of the shooting.
The teen was rushed to hospital. He died after doctors declared him brain dead and his mother agreed to have life-support removed.
In December, a judge ruled that McInerney is competent to stand trial after hearing from a court appointed psychiatrist and a psychologist.
His attorneys sought to have the youth declared developmentally incapable of standing trial. If McInerney had been found not competent, he would have been sent to a mental health facility where he would be treated and held until he was deemed able to stand trial.
In October, Deputy District Attorney Maeve Fox said that white supremacist materials had been found by investigators in McInerney’s bedroom.
If convicted as an adult, McInerney faces a sentence of 51 years to life.
The parents should be charged, adult-wise and the kid as a juvy. Hate does grow on trees. The parents are just as guilty if not more. They programmed a killer. What else was the kid supposed to do?
Let’s hope he gets life.
A teen premeditating a hate crime killing because the other boy liked dressing in feminine clothes and stating he was gay, shooting his victim 2 times, the 2nd time in the back of the head, is radically different from a 5 year-old thinking a gun (carelessly left unguarded or left out in the open by an adult who should know better)was a playtoy causing it to discharge.
Charging him as a adult and giving him 51 years to life, would be an appropriate and logical conclusion for this hideous and planned hate crime.
Brandon McInerney giving up his freedom for the rest of his natural life is a bargain for him considering he murdered his classmate “execution style”.
I am a mother of three, two of which are gay. As a parent, I worry about crazies who may hurt my young adult children. I worry when they go out and I constantly ask them to check in with me. It sickens to me to hear of hate crimes and it is even worse, when the murderer is a child. What is going on with our young people and when as a society will we step in to protect all people regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression?
You say you wouldn’t want your teenager to be tried as an adult… but what if it was your teenager that was the victim?
The judge should take into consideration the defendant’s age, yet we should all be very aware that this “kid” knew exactly what he was doing and what he wanted to do. It wasn’t just some child that didn’t know better.
Also, jail systems *do* have separate cell blocks for different types of inmates to keep them all out of harm.
I am part of the ugly mob. Dress the little bastard in drag and throw him in Gen-pop. Give him pouty lips.
A poisoned mind does not heal with time. If this kid is this fu*ked up at 14 does he really need to be running around for another 60 years?
His message needs to be met with a loud and clear message to anyone else who would do the same. His parents should be beaten with a stick and he should be put away.
I am against the death penalty. He sentenced a little kid to death. No eye for an eye here but how about a punishment that fits the crime. After he’s been “slow cooked” in isolation for a few decades let him go out to schools and tell everyone what was wrong with what he did and how sorry he is.
Then lock him back up again for endangering the other 20 students. One sentence for each other student.
His role models should be in the cell next to him.
Any chance the adults in McInerney’s life can be held responsible for messing this kid up so bad that he felt he needed to kill Larry? Who provided him with these “white supremacist” materials? Who drummed this anti-gay rhetoric into his head? That’s enough participation in the actual murder that they could be charged with Manslaughter, right?
Why do we have laws that define when one is a minor or age of consent laws? We do so in order to draw a line. If the individual in question was 14 years old he is a minor. End of story. We do a disservice to our own community when we choose to attack the weakest of the population (in this case a child). True, a heinous crime was committed. True, a life was lost, a group of children were forever adversely impacted, and a community was catastrophically harmed. Yet still this is a human child we are talking about, not some abstract person. We should rise above and advocate humanity, not simply be part of the mob.
It amazes me that people continue to think that this crime should and can be prosecuted in Juvenile Court. The Juvenile Court system simply is not equipped to deal with this type of issue.
This is not a child. This is a monster that needs to be prosecuted and hopefully live out his remaining years in a cell.
Comments like “that is not the actions of a child” and “This is no child this is a horrendous adult” and “He should now be man enough” are plainly ridiculous. We’ve decided by law that a 14-year-old is a child. I think that’s also widely accepted common sense. Therefore any action he takes is, by definition, the action of a child. Just because it repels you doesn’t change his age. We need to get honest with the justice system. Calling a child an adult is just as revolting as the Twinkie defense. If you can prove to me that his brain operates at the level of 18 years or greater, than I’ll buy it. But we all know that’s not the case.
I’m sorry, I have children and at 14 or 15 I would hate it for them to be tried as adults, however I do believe that my children know better and should expect to be held accountable for something so heinous. Therefore trying them in adult court at that age would be fair as long as when and if they are convicted they are still housed with young adults until old enough to transfer. I see a lot of children with a disregard for the law because the punishment isn’t great enough for them to stop and think twice. It’s a sad world we live in. Parents need to step up and start teaching their children better, whether it is to accept people (not just tolerate), deal with anger issues, self-esteem, and common sense. At just 15, King was braver than I ever could have dreamed to be in school.
When the news came out on the networks, it was stated that Mclnerney shot King in the back of the head execution style. Why is that a surpise now? It was definately a premeditated act of murder.
Brandon Mclnerney knew what he was doing and committed a hate crime against a young gay boy. He should now be man enough to accept responsibility for his actions, and spend the rest of his life in prison.
Neither the gay community nor cause is well served by taking a hardline position on juvenile justice or by quoting the 10 commandments! We shouldn’t allow ourselves to be distracted by terminology like “coup de grace,” when what is at issue it recovering from emotional trauma and the well being of a 15 year old human child. Rather than distort terms and play to our worse natures by calling a murder prosecution is juvenile court a “slap on the wrist,” (idiot!) we should let cooler heads prevail.
This was more than just premeditated murder. This was done to send a message to his kind: We will kill you for who you are and we don’t give a crap about the consequences.
This is no child this is a horrendous adult who murders with impunity.
Kill him and let society be done with him. He will be nothing but trouble and Larry wont be the first one he kills.
“”he sat behind the 15-year-old King in class last February 12. Then, without saying anything, he shot King in the back. When King fell to the floor, McInerney got up and fired a “second, coup de grace” shot into the back of King’s head.”"
I am not sure about others, but for me this certainly makes me have some second thoughts about my feelings about should he be tried as a minor or as an adult. I was not aware that this “child” had shot King in the back and then proceeded to “execute” him with the “coup de grace” shot to the head. I don’t know about others, but in my mind, that is not the actions of a child. That is a conscious act which resulted in cold-blooded murder regardless of the age of the participant. This is not a crime that should result in the killer being given a slap on the wrist and told not to ever do that again. Even fourteen year olds have enough sense to know that “thou shall not kill” is an accepted tenet of the society in which we live.