Investigators say
they found white supremacist materials in the bedroom
of Brandon McInerney, who is charged with the murder of a
gay classmate, the Los Angeles Times reported
Thursday.
Investigators say
they found white supremacist materials in the bedroom
of Brandon McInerney, who is charged with the murder of a
gay classmate, the Los Angeles Times reported
Thursday.
Sketches of
swastikas and other drawings depict a "racist skinhead
philosophy of the variety espoused by Tom Metzger, David
Lane, and others," Ventura County, Calif., senior
deputy district attorney Maeve Fox said in a
statement.
McInerney, 14, is
accused of shooting Lawrence King, 15, during
class in February at E.O. Green Junior High School in
Oxnard, Calif. McInerney is being tried as an adult
for the slaying, with a hate-crime enhancement.
Deputy public
defender William Quest, McInerney's attorney, said the
disclosure about the racist materials was a stunt to
intensify the public's feelings against his client.
"There is no
evidence Brandon was ever in a gang, no evidence he had
any gang tattoos," Quest said in the article. "His best
friends at school were black and Hispanic .... This is
a stretch by the prosecution." He added that McInerney
has shown an interest in German military history,
according to United Press International. (Michelle
Garcia, The Advocate)
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