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PHOENIX - A man arrested on suspicion of killing a 17-year-old boy in an Arizona convenience store last week says that he killed the teenager, who did not say or do anything to threaten him, because he was listening to rap music, police said.
The suspect, Michael Paul Adams, 27, admitted stabbing the teenager at 1:42 a.m. Thursday after he heard him playing rap music in his vehicle in a parking lot at a Circle K in Peoria, Arizona, according to police records filed in Arizona Superior Court.
Adams had just been released from the Arizona State Prison Complex in Yuma on Tuesday, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Adams told police rap music makes him feel "unsafe" because he had been attacked by people who listen to rap music in the past, records say. He also said people who listen to rap music are a threat to him and the community.
The suspect said he felt threatened by the music not the teen himself so he needed to be "proactive rather than reactive," police records said.
Adams criminal history includes theft, shoplifting, marijuana violation, disorderly conduct, assault with a weapon and aggravated assault of a correctional employee, according to Maricopa County Superior Court records.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/08/deadly-peoria-stabbing-suspect-michael-paul-adams-says-he-threatened-teens-music/1673045001/
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)riversedge
(70,350 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)Prison should be his forever home.
JustAnotherGen
(31,937 posts)Adams criminal history includes theft, shoplifting, marijuana violation, disorderly conduct, assault with a weapon and aggravated assault of a correctional employee, according to Maricopa County Superior Court records
These punks always get away with it.
Listening to Mr. Madison this morning and was saying that the attorney for this thug is already using the 'system failed him. he was homeless. he had no access to mental health care' bullshit.
Mr. Attorney - your client is a dirt bag regardless of the circumstances.
no_hypocrisy
(46,234 posts)dalton99a
(81,637 posts)Send him to prison to be with them for life hopefully.
spanone
(135,900 posts)Tarc
(10,478 posts)Aristus
(66,478 posts)He doesn't have a wealthy unscrupulous National Knife Association to come to his rescue.
LuckyCharms
(17,463 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)This is a guy who walked right out of jail and murdered someone just to get thrown back in and get three hots and a cot as well as worshipped by Aryan scum.
Let's disrupt that plan. He did it, there's no shadow of a doubt. He should die.