[ILoveTRW]

From 2008

At 15, Lawrence King was small—5 feet 1 inch—but very hard to miss. In January, he started to show up for class at Oxnard, Calif.'s E. O. Green Junior High School decked out in women's accessories. On some days, he would slick up his curly hair in a Prince-like bouffant. Sometimes he'd paint his fingernails hot pink and dab glitter or white foundation on his cheeks. "He wore makeup better than I did," says Marissa Moreno, 13, one of his classmates. He bought a pair of stilettos at Target, and he couldn't have been prouder if he had on a varsity football jersey. He thought nothing of chasing the boys around the school in them, teetering as he ran.

But on the morning of Feb. 12, Larry left his glitter and his heels at home. He came to school dressed like any other boy: tennis shoes, baggy pants, a loose sweater over a collared shirt. He seemed unhappy about something. He hadn't slept much the night before, and he told one school employee that he threw up his breakfast that morning, which he sometimes did because he obsessed over his weight. But this was different. One student noticed that as Larry walked across the quad, he kept looking back nervously over his shoulder before he slipped into his first-period English class. The teacher, Dawn Boldrin, told the students to collect their belongings, and then marched them to a nearby computer lab, so they could type out their papers on World War II. Larry found a seat in the middle of the room. Behind him, Brandon McInerney pulled up a chair.

Brandon, 14, wasn't working on his paper, because he told Mrs. Boldrin he'd finished it. Instead, he opened a history book and started to read. Or at least he pretended to. "He kept looking over at Larry," says a student who was in the class that morning. "He'd look at the book and look at Larry, and look at the book and look at Larry." At 8:30 a.m., a half hour into class, Brandon quietly stood up. Then, without anyone's noticing, he removed a handgun that he had somehow sneaked to school, aimed it at Larry's head, and fired a single shot. Boldrin, who was across the room looking at another student's work, spun around. "Brandon, what the hell are you doing!" she screamed. Brandon fired at Larry a second time, tossed the gun on the ground and calmly walked through the classroom door. Police arrested him within seven minutes, a few blocks from school. Larry was rushed to the hospital, where he died two days later of brain injuries.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswee...-murdered.html

Recent report about the ongoing trial

Youtube video

So who's to blame?
The school for letting him so openly express himself
King for coming onto McInerney in what jury members have described as bullying
or McInerney for being a neo nazi

[Smithy]

and obviously McInerney is to blame, stupid question

[Jords]

Brandon is obviously to blame but I think theres a time and place for gays to express theirself with make-up and glitter... school not 1 of them.

[Tom4784]

If the killer was so open about his connections then why was nothing done about it? It's a parental and school failure since if he was going around saying he had access to guns then the school should have acted immediately. I hope the killer goes down for a long time and that he at least gets the help he seemingly needs.

It's a sad case that could have been so easily averted.

[Conzors]

This has actually made me cry.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Conzors

This has actually made me cry.

But America is Gun Land.


The Evil Kid the Shot him will go to Prison.


He must have been in a Rage - not able to be by gays.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Dont go to school looking like an eejit is the message i am getting

[ILoveTRW]

Personally I think the blame does go to Brandon and I hope he gets locked up for a long time. But I don't think Larry was completely innocent in all this.
Is this a hate crime?
Because Brandon wasn't unprovoked but then he killed Larry because he was a homophobe.

[Marc]

That's America for ya

[Saph]

glad I dont live in America to be honest..

[ILoveTRW]

Originally Posted by Marc

That's America for ya

but it isn't
just because guns aren't so available doesn't mean hate crimes don't happen here

"RUSH-HOUR commuters watched in horror as a woman allegedly shoved a transvestite to his death under a train."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-RSS&ATTR=News

[Smithy]

^
There's no proof that that was because he was a transvestite though, she might have been annoyed that they were wearing the same dress or something

[ILoveTRW]

Originally Posted by Smithy

^
There's no proof that that was because he was a transvestite though, she might have been annoyed that they were wearing the same dress or something

serious?

[letmein]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Dont go to school looking like an eejit is the message i am getting

Typical blaming the victim.