Kentucky: white man charged with hate crimes after two black shoppers shot dead

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

A federal grand jury in Kentucky has charged a white man with three hate crimes in the shooting deaths of two African Americans last month at a grocery store.

The US attorney Russell Coleman announced the indictment on Thursday in Louisville against 51-year-old Gregory Bush. Bush is charged with three hate crimes, one for each person who was killed and one for attempting to shoot another person based on race or color. He was also charged with three firearms counts. He could face the death penalty if convicted.

Bush was indicted previously in state court on two counts of murder and other charges. He pleaded not guilty.

Bush had stopped at a historically black church near the Kroger supermarket chain in suburban Louisville. Failing to get into the church, which was locked, he headed to the grocery. There, 69-year-old Maurice Stallard and 67-year-old Vicki Lee Jones were killed.

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Associated Press
Thu 15 Nov 2018 22.41 GMT


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/15/kroger-shooting-gregory-bush-charged

[irisblue]

1. Good news

[Turbineguy]

2. Not much of a legacy

for his offspring to be proud of.

[lunasun]

3. Hate crime charge from grand jury finally and facing death penalty already charged with murders but

imo it's not enough, the hate crime charges were needed, and I guess the jury agrees

[iluvtennis]

4. Excellent. More crimes need to be indicted as federal hate crimes so this sh*t will stop.

[Judi Lynn]

5. What a shame other people had to pay for HIS criminality.

ds, family say final goodbyes to Jeffersontown Kroger shooting victims
“There is no peace,” said a close friend of one of the shooting victims.

Nov. 3, 2018 / 4:37 PM CDT
By Didi Martinez
A woman who was a fixture at her church choir meetings and a man who led his Christian ministry group were buried by their loved ones this week after they were gunned down Oct. 24 at a Kentucky grocery store.

Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vickie Lee Jones, 67, were killed when accused gunman Gregory Bush, 51, walked into the Kroger store in Jeffersontown, near Louisville. He shot Stallard first and then went outside and shot Jones in the parking lot.

Investigators said Stallard and Jones, who are black, had never met Bush, who is white, and had no connection to him.

. . .

"I believe there is no explanation for what happened — he did not know either of these individuals," said Thomas B. Wine, commonwealth attorney for the 30th judicial district. "The first victim in the case, Mr. Stallard, was shot from behind. He had no idea what was getting ready to happen."

More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/friends-family-say-final-goodbyes-jeffersontown-kroger-shooting-victims-n930341




Vickie Lee Jones, Maurice Stallard
Rest in Peace.

[ROB-ROX]

6. THIS HATEFUL BASTARD SHOULD BE SHOT

So murder will not be enough to have this bastard executed?? Two murders by this bastard would make this murder case questionable?? What type of justice occurs in this state which could be a third world country? Crazy people should NOT be allowed to own or operate GUNS because they could be crazy killers......

[Tobin S.]

9. Sane people use guns to kill people.

If not, there would be no such thing as a death penalty because all murderers would be judged not guilty by reason of insanity. Very few people, Republican or Democrat, want to do what it would take to end gun violence.

[Progressive Jones]

7. We need a nationwide system

of identifying white nationalist types, and neutralizing them.
Gun confiscation; court approved constant surveillance.

[ck4829]

8. We do, white nationalists do not meet any definition of the Second Amendment