More testimony at the Los Angeles trial of 17-year-old Brandon McInerney, who gunned down his gay classmate Lawrence King in front of up to 30 students. McInerney's half-brother testified on Wednesday that McInerney was sexually and physically abused as a child, reports the Ventura County Star.
Shortly after the 2008 fatal shooting of Larry King, James Bing said Brandon's father, Billy McInerney, started fuming that his son's cousin molested Brandon McInerney when he was a child.
Billy McInerney said he thought Brandon McInerney shot King because of the abuse, Bing testified.King had been wearing makeup and girls' boots to school and telling people he was gay while rumors were flying that King was flirting with McInerney.
"If something like that happens, it is going to scar him," Bing remembered his stepfather, Billy McInerney saying of the sexual abuse. ... Bing said his family kept the molestation secret from him for years, but it came out after the shooting. But he remembers the cousin was sent away for a long time after it allegedly happened, he said.
McInerney shot his 15-year-old classmate twice in the head at point-blank range in February 2008. McInerney is being tried as an adult for the murder. The state also alleges McInerney had close ties to white supremacists, which has led to a hate crime charge.
The defense has portrayed Lawrence King as sexually "aggressive" and suggests that McInerney was "provoked." Prosecutors are seeking to quash McInerney's "gay panic" defense. Previous witnesses have also testified that King's "feminine attire" and gender identity was upsetting some of the students and faculty at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard.
The half-brother testified earlier this week about rampant physical abuse in the home, as well as their father's crystal meth habit. Watch FOX LA's report AFTER THE JUMP ...
THIS TRIAL IS GETTING AS BAT-SHIT CRAZY AS CASEY ANTHONY'S... These mo'fo's are pulling out ALL the stops. Anything to try and stick or sway the jury. This is what the American court system has become. Create a case of confusion instead of the facts. Create "doubt" by throwing in other variables that has nothing to do with the case at hand to "confuse" jurors on making a rational, just decision based on the EVIDENCE.
This is fu*king crazy.
Posted by: Okie-Doke | 04 August 2011 at 11:51
Back in the day there was an episode of "The Golden Girls" where the four main characters went to a baseball game. Dorothy was reluctant to go. But she did eventually go. The seat beside her was empty. She started to explain to the other "girls" that she always expected that if she ever found herself at a baseball game she, in her horror, would find herself sitting next to a creepy overweight, sweaty guy stuffing his face with hot dogs. No longer than when she had finished this statement, did a man come and sit next to her, fitting exactly the description she had just uttered. She then turned to the man and said, "What took you so long?"
This is the same question I have about this "revelation" of sexual abuse in this case. Of course the defendant was molested. Of course. What took you so long, scheming defense team to reveal this. Next week we'll likely hear testimony that the alleged molester looked creepily like Lawrence King and just happened to be wearing eerily similar make-up and clothing as King was wearing when he murdered him. Puh-leeze. I fear this trial is becoming nothing more than a sad, sad excuse for justifying the murder of yet another defenseless LGBT child of color. Lord help us all.
Posted by: Sage | 04 August 2011 at 12:12
Sorry, I misunderstood the abuse to be sexual abuse rather than physical abuse. Ok, that mitigates my previous post slightly...ever so slightly
Posted by: Sage | 04 August 2011 at 12:20
Lawrence King's assassination is very painful for all of us. It hits pretty close to home for those of us who are or were gender role non-conforming. I keep thinking, "that could've been me assassinated"
And tHis bullshit about Lawrence being aggressive and a harasser. One of defense mechanisms that some feminine boys use is to become even more flamboyant or daring than your harassers acuse you of. To develop a sort "in your face" attitude. I did it in highschool, and sometimes on the streets. That strategy was frightening and painful because the anger you received in return was intense, but you're trying to show "them" that you're not afraid--but often you are. And you're usually alone like Lawrence King.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | 04 August 2011 at 12:31
Ya know, yes it is tragic and sad that McInerney was abused and I feel for him but I also know that there are quite a few other people...and I mean men...that are abused in these ways and they don't commit murder.
Brandon McInerney is a murderer.
Posted by: Chitown Kev | 04 August 2011 at 13:02
although...
IF I were McInerney and his folks, this is exactly what I would want my lawyer to be doing.
Still...
of all those previous witnessess and students that were upset by King's behavior, from what I've read, it was kept solely at the verbal bullying level and McInerney could convince noone to bash King.
That's the one thing that I know of so far that just sticks out to me.
Posted by: Chitown Kev | 04 August 2011 at 13:08
@Sage. Your post is fine (and on point) the abuse was both sexual and physical.
Posted by: BoBo | 04 August 2011 at 13:40
"Give 'em the old...RAZZLE DAZZLE...Razzle Dazzle 'em"
Posted by: Aamir Swag | 04 August 2011 at 15:10