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White Man Who Shot and Killed Two Black People in Kentucky Kroger Sentenced to Life in Prison
Gregory Alan Bush—the white man who walked into a Louisville, Ky., area Kroger supermarket in 2018 and fatally shot two elderly Black people—pleaded guilty to murder on Tuesday and will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. Bush—who is reportedly schizophrenic and was unmedicated at the time of the…
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Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Burn Down a Black Church in Virginia
A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to threatening to burn down a Black church in Virginia. On June 7, 63-year-old John Malcolm Bareswill, a resident of Catawba, N.C., made a threatening phone call to a church located in Virginia Beach, Va., according to NBC News. Only several days earlier, one of the church leaders…
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White Supremacist Dylann Roof to Plead Guilty to State Murder Charges: Report
Dylann Roof—the white supremacist who was convicted earlier this year of several federal charges, including hate crimes, and sentenced to death for the murder of nine black worshippers at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.—will plead guilty to state murder charges in April, forgoing the second death penalty trial that was scheduled. According to…