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U.S. NEWS Thursday 8 February 2018

Jury: Oklahoma man guilty of murder, hate crime in slaying

By J. JUOZAPAVICIUS "Today is vindication for this for threatening a crime
Associated Press family," Tulsa County District with intent to terrorize, was
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Jurors Attorney Steve Kunzweiler undeterred.
convicted an Oklahoma told The Associated Press Despite the court order,
man of murder and hate after the verdict. "It has cer- Majors was accused of
crime charges Wednesday tainly been an issue that's plowing his car into Haifa
for fatally shooting his Leb- ... exposed an ugly but real Jabara in 2015. She suf-
anese neighbor after bom- segment of the population fered a broken shoulder,
barding him with racial and whose prejudice often- among other injuries. Au-
anti-Muslim insults in a long- times dictates their actions thorities said Majors kept
running feud with his family, toward other human be- driving after he struck her.
who are Christian. ings." Officers who stopped him
Stanley Vernon Majors, 63, Kunzweiler also called on later reported that he was
was found guilty in the Au- state lawmakers to stiffen intoxicated.
gust 2016 shooting death of penalties for committing a While awaiting trial on as-
Khalid Jabara, 37, outside hate crime, which is a mis- sault and battery charges,
his Tulsa home. Majors also demeanor in Oklahoma. a judge freed Majors from
was convicted of threaten- A spokeswoman for the jail on $60,000 bond, over-
ing an act of violence. Ju- Jabaras said she didn't This Aug. 12, 2016, photo shows Stanley Majors, of Tulsa, Okla., ruling strong objections by
who has been charged with first-degree murder and a hate
rors deliberated for nearly know if family members crime in the 2016 slaying of his Lebanese neighbor. A 12-mem- Tulsa County prosecutors,
2 ½ hours before returning would immediately com- ber jury on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, found 63-year-old Majors who called him "a substan-
the verdict. ment on Wednesday's ver- guilty in the August 2016 shooting death of 37-year-old Khalid tial risk to the public" and
Prosecutors said Majors dict. Jabara outside his Tulsa home. pleaded with the court
spent years in conflict with The conflict between the (Tulsa County Sheriff's Office via AP) to set a higher bond of
the Jabara family, often neighbors escalated to the in 2013 that required Majors firearms until 2018. $300,000. Authorities said
hurling racial and religious point where the victim's to stay 300 yards (275 me- But prosecutors said Majors, Majors shot Khalid Jabara
epithets at his next-door mother, Haifa Jabara, ob- ters) away and prohibited who also had a 2009 felony on his own front porch while
neighbors. tained a protective order him from possessing any conviction from California out on bond.q

Vermont man insists he didn't kill mother, grandfather

By MICHAEL CASEY Carman, who lives in Ver- case. Hampshire accusing him of asked a judge to block him
Associated Press non, Vermont, has denied In July, his mother's three killing Chakalos and pos- from collecting money from
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A any involvement in either sisters filed a lawsuit in New sibly his mother. They have his grandfather's estate. q
Vermont man accused by
family members of killing his
millionaire grandfather and
possibly his mother said sev-
eral of his relatives are "be-
ing driven by malice and
greed" and are spreading
lies about him.
Nathan Carman has been
called a suspect in the 2013
shooting death of 87-year-
old real estate developer
John Chakalos in Windsor,
Connecticut. No one has
been arrested. He also has
been questioned about
the day his boat sank with
his mother, Linda Carman,
aboard near Rhode Island
in 2016. She is presumed
dead. He was rescued a
week later, after being
found floating on a life raft
in the Atlantic Ocean.