Ideology, the Schools, and Murder: The McInerney/King Case

On the morning of February 12, 2008, Brandon McInerney, 14, a good student and athlete at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California, left for school with his mother’s .22 cal. pistol in his backpack. Brandon entered Computer Lab, took a seat directly behind 15-year-old Larry King, a transgender boy who suffered from ADHD and a reactive detachment disorder. Larry, AKA Latisha, was unable to form close relationships with the serial foster parents appointed to care for him. At approximately 8:15 that morning, Brandon shot Larry in the back of the head. Larry died two days later.   Mass media outlets and social media cast Larry (Latisha) King as a martyr of the Gay Rights movement and Brandon as a hate-filled Neo-Nazi. Larry was buried. Brandon pleaded guilty to 2nd -degree murder and received a twenty-one-year prison sentence. It was, it seemed, an open and shut case. Good vs Evil. Neo-Nazi killed innocent gay kid. But, the facts of this tragedy -- that...(Read Full Article)
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