Texas teen sentenced to 38 years for murdering Iraqi immigrant

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Tue May 24, 2016 2:35pm EDT

Texas teen sentenced to 38 years for murdering Iraqi immigrant

DALLAS | BY LISA MARIA GARZA

A Dallas jury sentenced a teenager to 38 years in prison on Tuesday for murdering an Iraqi immigrant as he took family pictures while experiencing snow for the first time.

Nykerion Nealon, 19, was convicted on Monday of fatally shooting Ahmed al-Jumaili, 36, in March 2015 in the parking lot of his apartment complex.

Al-Jumaili had only been in the United States for about three weeks and authorities had thought the case might have been a hate crime. They later determined Nealon did not know al-Jumaili's ethnicity and said he may have been trying to retaliate for a shooting at his girlfriend's apartment.

Prosecutors said Nealon, who was 17 years old at the time, fired 14 rounds from an AK-47, striking al-Jumaili, who was in the snow with members of his family, once in the chest.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-crime-immigration-idUSKCN0YF2JH

[Chan790]

1. In some small sense, this is actual progress from the state of TX.

Considering that the perpetrator is black, over 18 and a murderer...I would have expected they'd have had him half-way down the green mile before the jury was even selected.

TX executes people, black people in particular, like they think the sun may not rise if they don't make their monthly human sacrifice.

[Matrosov]

7. Well, he did kill a 'Mooselim'

That might have earned him some brownie points with someone

[linuxman]

2. Another white yahoo racist with a gun in texas.

[NaturalHigh]

3. The yahoo wasn't white.

Your attempt to make this about race = massive fail.

[Fix The Stupid]

4. Another black gang banger with a gun in texas...

See how stupid that sounds?


Why is your statement OK, but mine would be grounds for termination?

[snooper2]

6. close- both white or black would have had a loser neck tattoo more than likely

but you failed with reply, next time!


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[philosslayer]

8. Thats it?

Not even going to acknowledge just how wrong you are? Or do you specialize in posting erroneous posts and then running away?

[gratuitous]

5. How does a 17-year-old get hold of an AK-47?

Ah well, irrelevant at this point. Got the bad guy. Nothing further to be seen or said.

[Eleanors38]

9. I had a semi-auto rifle at 11. Didn't shoot anyone. The rifle is 111 years old, now.

[Bucky]

10. This is Texas

Why are yall ever surprised at the violent levels of dumbass we keep reaching?