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Murder With Baseball Bat of Mentally Disabled Man Caught on Surveillance Tape in L.A.
Foxnews.com ^ | 6/14/2007

Posted on 06/14/2007 4:49:20 PM PDT by Vasilli22

Thursday, June 14, 2007

LOS ANGELES — A mentally disabled man beaten to death with a baseball bat on May 29 was captured by a surveillance camera in Los Angeles.

On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, around 8:45 p.m., James McKinney, 41, of Los Angeles, walked to a store from his home, a board and care facility for the mentally challenged. As he neared the corner of Wilton Place and Olympic Boulevard, a male assailant approached him from behind and violently struck the back of his head with an aluminum baseball bat. The suspect then fled on foot. McKinney, hemorrhaging, fell to the ground. An unidentified passerby called 911.

McKinney was rushed by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics to Cedars Sinai Hospital, where he died from severe head injuries on June 3rd.

Police describe the suspect as Hispanic, between the ages of 16 and 20 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall and approximately 175 pounds. In the surveillance tape, he was bald, wearing black shorts, a dark T-shirt and white tennis shoes.......

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: murder
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If this murderer turns out to be in the U.S. illegally, do you think this will be reported by the MSM or quietly swept under the rug? I know, I know, stupid question.
1 posted on 06/14/2007 4:49:21 PM PDT by Vasilli22
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To: Vasilli22

Wasn’t an illegal, well if Bush get’s his way this honorable young man won’t be illegal for long.


2 posted on 06/14/2007 4:52:29 PM PDT by LoneStarLegend78
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To: Vasilli22

Surveillance tape here:

http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=3485971&version=1&locale=EN-US


3 posted on 06/14/2007 4:53:04 PM PDT by Vasilli22
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I just saw the clip on Fox News of the guy getting clobbered. The perp looks like a Hispanic guy in baggy clothes with a buzz hair cut.


4 posted on 06/14/2007 4:54:27 PM PDT by blam
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police describe the suspect as Hispanic, between the ages of 16 and 20 years old

Now what beef could he possibly have with a middle-aged white man going about his business?

5 posted on 06/14/2007 4:54:49 PM PDT by Spirochete
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None. He’s just a punk. He deserves the needle, but he’ll never get it in CA.


6 posted on 06/14/2007 4:55:24 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: Vasilli22

Hope that bat was registered.... {/sarcasm

What kind of freaking moron goes around whacking people, even mental people, in the head with a bat...


7 posted on 06/14/2007 4:57:41 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Vasilli22

Gang requirements.


8 posted on 06/14/2007 4:58:08 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: darkangel82

Needle hell! He deserves an aluminum bat, swung for the fence, to the back of his head.


9 posted on 06/14/2007 4:58:15 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead ("nothing gets figured out if you don't bother to stop and think about it", Thomas Sowell)
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My thought too - Initiation.
10 posted on 06/14/2007 4:58:51 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead ("nothing gets figured out if you don't bother to stop and think about it", Thomas Sowell)
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To: Vasilli22

“A Man Is Expected To Have Enthusiasms...”


11 posted on 06/14/2007 4:59:07 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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None. He’s just a punk. He deserves the needle, but he’ll never get it in CA.

Gang initiation rite?

12 posted on 06/14/2007 4:59:44 PM PDT by Spirochete
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and pretty bold one. He’s openly looking / waiting for a victim with many cars driving by. He don’t care.


13 posted on 06/14/2007 5:01:44 PM PDT by ibbryn (this tag intentionally left blank)
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Now what beef could he possibly have with a middle-aged white man going about his business?

Probably no beef, just your basic L.A. gang initiation "rite of passage".

Amazing thing is that any ethnic ID would be revealed.

14 posted on 06/14/2007 5:01:50 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Vasilli22

Watched it and thought the “SitnSleep” commercial that was played before the actual video was beyond the beyond in bad taste. Did you see that or was it some random commercial I seen? Who is the ass who programed this? Call me crazy but it looks to me like it was placed there on purpose.


15 posted on 06/14/2007 5:01:52 PM PDT by Screamname (On this date in history; Al Gore invents the Algorithm)
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To: darkangel82

Here is were that ol’ “eye for an eye” thing would be suitable punishment.


16 posted on 06/14/2007 5:02:29 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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This case needs a good cop.

 

Looks like good cop and bad cop left for the day.  This case needs a different kind of cop. 

17 posted on 06/14/2007 5:02:38 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("Lord, give me chastity and temperance, but not now." - St. Augustine)
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I’m sure it was just one crazy, out of the millions of hard-working immigrants that come to work in this country. It’s not like illegals are behind most killings in the U.S. or anything! If they were a danger to us, they would be deported.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/vc/murders/vc_murders.htm

whoops


18 posted on 06/14/2007 5:03:58 PM PDT by Bladerunnuh
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The Record!

It took only one post to bring in the topic of illegal immigration!

Congratulations!


19 posted on 06/14/2007 5:04:15 PM PDT by 2dogjoe (Have a Blessed Day)
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To: Vasilli22

It seems to me he was purposely waiting for this guy.


20 posted on 06/14/2007 5:06:15 PM PDT by Screamname (On this date in history; Al Gore invents the Algorithm)
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