As the hearing continues in the trial of Brandon McInerney — the teenager who killed Lawrence King because he was gay — more information about McInerney’s home life is coming out:
Brandon McInerney, who was 14 when Larry King was fatally shot during a computer lab class, was acquainted with local neo-Nazis and kept a notebook with elaborate drawings of Nazi symbols and regalia, according to testimony from an investigator. McInerney, who is now 15, has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder.
. . . “The evidence strongly indicates he had been indoctrinated to some level,” said Dan Swanson, a Simi Valley police detective and specialist in neo-Nazi gangs.
A search of McInerney’s bedroom and backpack yielded the notebook, seven of Hitler’s speeches translated into English and a book about SS troopers who had been former members of the Hitler Youth. The collection reflected an interest in the Nazis that was far more profound than the World War II book report McInerney had been assigned, the investigator testified.
. . . The prosecution image of McInerney as a violent, cold-blooded racist was at odds with the picture advanced by his defense attorneys, who cast the gangly youth as breaking under a cascade of sexual insults from King. [LA Times]
Nazism, a father who died just before the trial, hate crime killing — how could someone so young live this life?
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