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Tue May 13, 2014, 06:17 PM May 2014

White supremacist rapist/murderer kills self in prison...

Good.

Neo-Nazi Spree Murderer Dead After Apparent Prison Suicide

By Don Terry on May 13, 2014 - 12:04 pm, Posted in Domestic Terrorism, Extremist Crime, Neo-Nazi

After his arrest for a racially motivated rape and killing spree committed the day after Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009, white supremacist Keith Luke told police he had planned to end his rampage by killing himself.

It took Luke five years behind bars, Obama’s second inauguration, and at least one other suicide attempt, but the plan has finally been completed. The 28-year-old killer, who was serving two consecutive life sentences in a Massachusetts prison, is dead, apparently by his own hand, the Boston Globe reported today.

Luke was pronounced dead at a hospital Monday afternoon after being on life-support since Saturday, when he was discovered unresponsive in his cell. “We suspect it’s another suicide attempt by Luke,” Massachusetts Department of Correction spokesman Darren Duarte told the Globe.

Luke, who had a history of mental illness, showed up at his first court appearance with a swastika carved into his forehead. He had used a jailhouse razor to cut the bloody symbol into his own flesh, officials said.

He was convicted last May of murdering a man and a woman and raping and critically wounding another woman in Brockton, Mass., the day after Obama was inaugurated, becoming the nation’s first black president. Luke’s victims were immigrants from the West African archipelago Cape Verde.



http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/05/13/neo-nazi-spree-murderer-dead-after-apparent-prison-suicide/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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GOOD randys1 May 2014 #1
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