On the anniversary of the murder of 15-year-old Lawrence King by fellow student Brandon McInerney, the LA Times is reporting that King’s murder was more of an execution:
Lawrence “Larry” King wasn’t sexually harassing fellow eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney in the weeks leading up to King’s shooting death, prosecutors contend in court documents.McInerney was the aggressor, teasing the effeminate King for weeks and vowing to “get a gun and shoot” him, according to a prosecution brief. Multiple students provided accounts of a growing hostility between the two boys, the document shows.
. . . “In the days before the shooting, the defendant tried to enlist others to administer a beating to Larry,” Deputy Dist. Atty. Maeve Fox wrote in a “statement of facts” filed with the brief. “When that failed for lack of interest, he decided to kill Larry.”
. . . “It was an absolutely brutal crime, with premeditation and deliberation,” Fox said Wednesday. “He was familiar with firearms and had fired that gun before. He knew what he was doing.”
Tonight, a vigil is being held for King in Ventura County.
