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| Kentucky: white man charged with hate crimes after two black shoppers shot dead | Kentucky: white man charged with hate crimes after two black shoppers shot dead |
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| A federal grand jury in Kentucky has charged a white man with three hate crimes in the shooting deaths of two African Americans last month at a grocery store. | A federal grand jury in Kentucky has charged a white man with three hate crimes in the shooting deaths of two African Americans last month at a grocery store. |
| The US attorney Russell Coleman announced the indictment on Thursday in Louisville against 51-year-old Gregory Bush. Bush is charged with three hate crimes, one for the two people who were killed and one for attempting to shoot another person based on race or color. He was also charged with three firearms counts. He could face the death penalty if convicted. | |
| Bush was indicted previously in state court on two counts of murder and other charges. He pleaded not guilty. | Bush was indicted previously in state court on two counts of murder and other charges. He pleaded not guilty. |
| Bush had stopped at a historically black church near the Kroger supermarket chain in suburban Louisville. Failing to get into the church, which was locked, he headed to the grocery. There, 69-year-old Maurice Stallard and 67-year-old Vicki Lee Jones were killed. | Bush had stopped at a historically black church near the Kroger supermarket chain in suburban Louisville. Failing to get into the church, which was locked, he headed to the grocery. There, 69-year-old Maurice Stallard and 67-year-old Vicki Lee Jones were killed. |
| Bush was indicted last month by a Jefferson county grand jury. | Bush was indicted last month by a Jefferson county grand jury. |
| The local police chief where the shooting happened had said he believed the killings had been racially motivated. | The local police chief where the shooting happened had said he believed the killings had been racially motivated. |
| An arrest report said Bush walked into the store outside Louisville, pulled a gun from his waist and shot a man in the back of the head, then kept shooting him “as he was down on the floor”. The report says Bush then reholstered his gun, walked outside and killed a woman in the parking lot. | An arrest report said Bush walked into the store outside Louisville, pulled a gun from his waist and shot a man in the back of the head, then kept shooting him “as he was down on the floor”. The report says Bush then reholstered his gun, walked outside and killed a woman in the parking lot. |
| A witness quoted by the Courier Journal of Louisville said he saw the gunman walk “nonchalantly” by with a gun by his side in the car park. He said he called out to ask what was going on, and the gunman replied to the man, who was also armed: “Don’t shoot me. I won’t shoot you. Whites don’t shoot whites.” | A witness quoted by the Courier Journal of Louisville said he saw the gunman walk “nonchalantly” by with a gun by his side in the car park. He said he called out to ask what was going on, and the gunman replied to the man, who was also armed: “Don’t shoot me. I won’t shoot you. Whites don’t shoot whites.” |
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