Man sentenced to 120 years for killing cross-dressing teen

[TXlib]

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AP) -- A judge sentenced a man to 120 years in prison for killing a cross-dressing teenager and his female friend.

Paul Moore, 21, maintained his innocence Wednesday in Marion County Superior Court as he was sentenced on charges of murder, arson and criminal confinement in the shooting deaths of Brandie Coleman, 18, and Gregory Johnson, 17.

Prosecutors said Moore shot both victims in the front of the head with a .45-caliber handgun when he discovered that Johnson, who dressed as a woman and answered to the name Nireah, was not female.

Investigators alleged that Moore killed Johnson because he felt his sexuality was threatened by an intimate encounter the men had. Coleman was killed because she was Johnson's friend and they had double dated, prosecutors said.

Their bodies were found July 23, 2003, in the back seat of a burned-out Jeep on the city's northeast side.

Moore's half brother, Clarence McGee, 26, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of arson, assisting a criminal and obstruction of justice. McGee also had pleaded innocent.

Defense attorneys argued the killings had been the work of a third man.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/06/cross.dress.killing.a... /

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Heh... Rot in jail, fucker. May that not be the last experience you suffer that threatens your sexuality!

[ronnykmarshall]

1. The next thing he's gonna hear:

Bend over, you're MY bitch now.

[beyurslf]

2. Somehow I think these two men

are about to learn what threats to their sexuality really look like.

Don't drop the soap boys.

[arwalden]

3. Your Postscript Commentary Says It All For Me. Nothing Needs To Be Added.

-- Allen

[Endangered Specie]

4. I hope the soap in that prison is real slick.

[Dookus]

5. and once again

the same people who condemn the sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners think nothing of wishing rape on a US prisoner.

It's disgusting. I hate this guy as much as any of you, but I don't think a lifetime of being raped should be part of his punishment.