David Lynch, white supremacist (not the filmmaker), murdered
Evan Hulka
Police probe killing of white supremacist leader
David Lynch, prominent skinhead activist, shot to death in Calif. home
CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. — Police say it's too soon to speculate on a
motive in the killing of a prominent white supremacist credited with
helping grow the skinhead movement in the 1990s.
A person of interest has been detained in the killing of David Lynch,
40. Lynch, a leader of the neo-Nazi skinhead group American Front, was
found dead in a bedroom in his Citrus Heights home early Wednesday
morning, said Citrus Heights police Lt. Gary Hendricks. He had been
shot in the head and torso.
A 33-year-old woman was also shot in the leg. She was taken to the
hospital and was expected to survive, authorities said.
Charles Gilbert Demar III, 36, was detained at a traffic stop in
Rancho Cordova on Wednesday afternoon as a "person of interest" in
Lynch's slaying. On Thursday, Demar was arrested on unrelated drug
charges and booked into the Sacramento jail, Hendricks said. He has
not been charged in Lynch's slaying.
Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern
Poverty Law Center, told msnbc.com that Demar is also a white
supremacist who goes by the name Charlie Boot. He is the lead singer
of Stormtroop 16, a white-power rock 'n' roll band, Potok said.
Demar's former mother-in-law, Kelly Caramella, told The Sacramento Bee
on Thursday that Lynch and Demar were close friends. Caramella said
police questioned her Wednesday afternoon and wanted information about
Demar.
"It is totally ludicrous," she told The Bee. "It is impossible that
Charlie would hurt Dave, they loved each other as brothers."
Hendricks told KXTV police are investigating whether Lynch's death is
related to an association with skinhead groups.
"We're following up leads in regards to (Lynch being part of a
skinhead organization) based on a rumor that is actually coming from
the media, not from us," Hendricks told the TV station. "So we're
following up with regards to that as well. That is part of our
investigation as well."
Organizations that monitor hate groups described Lynch as an
influential white supremacist with a two-decade-plus history of racial
activism.
"I would describe him as a former first-tier leader in the '90s. He
was very well-known, especially on the racist skinhead scene. He was a
bright and charismatic man and also a man sometimes with incredible
potential for violence," said Potok of the SPLC.
A few years ago, Potok said, SPLC interviewed a former associate of
Lynch's, who recounted a story that Lynch allegedly ordered an attack
on an ex-girlfriend. "When he breaks up with her, he orders the
associate to carve the tattoo on the back of her neck and mail him the
skin," Potok said. The alleged order was never carried out.
According to Hatewatch, a blog of the SPLC, Lynch became Eastern
states coordinator for American Front, a nationwide skinhead coalition
modeled after Britain’s racist National Front, in the late 1980s and
early 1990s. He became involved with the group while living in
Florida.
After American Front’s power waned in the mid-1990s, Lynch lived for a
time in Canada, then relocated to Sacramento, where he assumed control
of the Sacto Skins, a skinhead gang.
In the late 1990s, Lynch met with then-National Alliancechairman
William Pierce, author of "The Turner Diaries," when the neo-Nazi
leader visited Sacramento.
By2007, Lynch had united skinhead crews in Northern and Southern
California, Utah and Florida under the banner of a newly energized
American Front, law enforcement authorities told SPLC. He had also
established a U.S. division of Troops of Tomorrow, an international
skinhead organization, and helped to launch Prison Skin,a prison
outreach campaign to support incarcerated skinheads, SPLC said.
"Due to Lynch’s influence, most people who identify as American Front
members are based in California (primarily northern California) and
Florida (including Brevard and Orange Counties)," according to
information published by the Anti-Defamation League.
Lynch, who worked at a local environmental abatement firm, appeared to
be less active on the white supremacist scene in recent years, Potok
said. "Up to about 2006-2007 he was working hard to unify various
skinhead groups, especially in the West, but he did seem to recede,"
Potok said.
Brian Watson
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: Police probe killing of white supremacist leader
David Lynch, prominent skinhead activist, shot to death in Calif. home
Anyone else up for a lynch party?
:-)
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Brian
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Michael O'Connor
Trace
> Sounds like he was Wild At Heart.
But is he "dead, wrapped in plastic?"
Trace