Trial to begin in slaying of gay middle school student

Source: latimesblogs.la Posted By: Billy T...5457 days ago

Opening arguments are set to begin Tuesday in a Chatsworth courtroom in the case of an Oxnard teenager who shot an eighth-grade classmate to death more than three years ago.

When he was just 14, Brandon McInerney walked into an Oxnard classroom, took his seat, pulled a .22-caliber handgun out of his backpack and shot the student sitting in front of him.

He then tossed the weapon to the floor and walked out. The victim, Lawrence King, was an openly gay student who McInerney reportedly thought....

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