I am and always have been against the death penalty, but when I see what the
killer below did to an innocent man I wonder if I am right.
Just some guy walking down the street and causing no harm and he is killed
by some raving nutcase.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/elliot-morales-gay-hate-crime-_n_3306206.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices
NEW YORK — The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a
Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head appeared in
court Sunday to face a charge of murder as a hate crime.
Elliot Morales, who appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court, is also charged
with criminal possession of a weapon and menacing, according to the
complaint filed Sunday by the Manhattan district attorney's office.
Authorities said the Greenwich Village resident used a silver revolver to
kill 32-year-old Mark Carson early Saturday as he walked with a companion in
Morales' neighborhood.
Morales was ordered held without bail pending another court appearance on
Thursday. His attorney, Reginald Sharpe, could not be reached for comment.
On Saturday, seconds before opening fire in the lively Village streets just
after midnight, police say Morales followed Carson and a companion through
the Village, asking if they "want to die here," Police Commissioner Raymond
Kelly said.
Police said Morales then yelled anti-gay slurs before shooting Carson
point-blank in the face in a neighborhood long known as a bedrock of the gay
rights movement.