KY Man Charged With Hate Crimes In Kroger Shooting Targeting Black Victims

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — 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.

U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman announced the indictment 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.

Gregory 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 in suburban Louisville before heading to the grocery, where 69-year-old Maurice Stallard and 67-year-old Vicki Lee Jones were killed.

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  1. He will fit right in with the skin heads in general pop.

  2. A Trumper charged with mass murder of a minority group?

    Didn’t I just see something like this last week?

    And the week before?

    And the week before that?

    And…

  3. OK Justice Roberts, hows your “post-racial society” now?

  4. About. Damn. Time. Although I’m not opposed to the death penalty, he really is mentally ill and should spend the rest of his life in prison instead of being executed. I just feel so damn sorry for his ex-wife and, most importantly, his biracial son. That poor, poor child.

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