GUILTY CA - Jeffrey Hall, 32, shot to death, Riverside, 1 May 2011

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Very unusual to be charged with murder at 10.


California boy charged with murdering neo-Nazi dad


RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A 10-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with murdering his neo-Nazi father in the family's Southern California home and his attorney said he might pursue an insanity defense.
Riverside County prosecutors charged the boy with murder involving the use of a gun after reviewing the facts surrounding the early Sunday morning shooting of Jeff Hall, a 32-year-old plumber who had carried a swastika flag and led rallies outside a local synagogue and day labor site.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110505/ap_on_re_us/us_white_supremacist_killed
 
Lionel Tate was 12 and I am wondering if this child will be the youngest that anyone has been charged with murder.
 
Just to be clear, the boy is NOT being charged as an adult. Per the article, CA law doesn't allow for minors to be charged as adults until they are 14.
 
Just to be clear, the boy is NOT being charged as an adult. Per the article, CA law doesn't allow for minors to be charged as adults until they are 14.
But he is being charged with murder.

Interestingly they do not think the father's neo nazi affiliation has anything to do with the murder. Well not directly anyway. I am imagining what kind of father he might have been and what influence he may have had on his own son. I will be interested in learning about the family dynamics.
 
What was a 10 year old doing up at 4:00AM with a gun?

We'll most likely see this has nothing to do with dad's political leanings and ideals.

10 years old. :(
 
An update on this disturbing case:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...LLED?SITE=OREUG&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Slain neo-Nazi's beliefs could air in son's case
May 10, 2011

"....Prosecutors won't say if they know the motive, but family court records portray a troubled boy who spent his first years hungry and living in filth while his parents went through a messy divorce that included accusations of child abuse.

Evidence about how he was reared is likely to surface in a case that raises questions about whether the boy is mature enough to know right from wrong and whether his father's extremist views played a role in the shooting...."

More at link (very detailed article)
 
Here's a partial photo of the boy. It's ok, he's not identified!

What's sad to see in this photo just prior to him shooting his dad, he seemed like a typical young boy, scraped knees and all!

IMHO, they SHOULD take into account this child's life from the beginning he knew nothing but abuse and neglect. The doctrine of neo-nazi is violence, hate and guns.

I honestly don't think this child is even evil. He's been misguided by the only people he had to look up to, leaving him with an under-developed mind. I believe that with foster care and intense therapy, he could become a thriving adult that could give back to civilization.

This poor child just didn't have a chance under the circumstances.

Time will tell if he heals.
:(
JMHO
fran

http://www.scpr.org/programs/madeleine-brand/2011/05/18/jeff-hall-murder-trial/

Riverside boy accused of killing Neo Nazi father in court today

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My heart goes out to the children in this family. Even though the child killed his father, I still feel for him. I feel that something such as the cheating led him to snap. I'd rather see this child receive rehabilitation and hopefully change his ways than be in jail.
 
Here's a partial photo of the boy. It's ok, he's not identified!

What's sad to see in this photo just prior to him shooting his dad, he seemed like a typical young boy, scraped knees and all!

IMHO, they SHOULD take into account this child's life from the beginning he knew nothing but abuse and neglect. The doctrine of neo-nazi is violence, hate and guns.

I honestly don't think this child is even evil. He's been misguided by the only people he had to look up to, leaving him with an under-developed mind. I believe that with foster care and intense therapy, he could become a thriving adult that could give back to civilization.

This poor child just didn't have a chance under the circumstances.

Time will tell if he heals.
:(
JMHO
fran

http://www.scpr.org/programs/madeleine-brand/2011/05/18/jeff-hall-murder-trial/

Riverside boy accused of killing Neo Nazi father in court today

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<article at link>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It makes me wonder how much was being hidden if there was a photographer following these people around.

Agreed. No child is purely evil. That's learned behavior.

In all fairness the biological mother of this child lost custody and apparently lost custody of twins she had by another man.

According to reports through the courts the boy was not being neglected in the home with his step mother and father. Violence though that's a different story. National Socialists supposedly teach their children gun safety. So it's ironic that they left a loaded firearm in the reach of small children.

Poor kid thought he was going to get shuffled around again.

On an aside the National Socialists don't identify as being supreme. It's more a preservation of culuture and pride in their race. The term Neo-Nazi doesn't sit well with them either. No doubt dad was handing out some fierce corporal punishment. I can see that.

Hate breeds hate and violence begets violence. Sadly it looks like that mix coupled with being neglected by his biological mother made this kid get dealt a bad roster.

My prayers have been going up for him.

How about that photo? A child eating a sandwich while having on one shoe while the unidentified guy has on his stomping boots or whatever they call them. I'm not sure what the blue laces mean. I think the colors mean something.
 
Of course blue laces mean something. Thanks for pointing that out, Filly. I found this on one of my very favorite (RE: extreme sarcasm here) forums:

Note: Always racist and disturbing comments here. Always. But eye opening.

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t126093-2/

Symbolism of laces and braces

".....blue represented a cop killer, which I'm sure it does mean somewhere. Around here the blue laces are worn by anyone who claims to be a sXe Skinhead (pronounced straight-edge skinhead). They tend to be a little bit more violent and wear there hair short with a little short diagonal line cut into it, cutting across the front..."

and

"....In my area, red laces mean National Socialism. White laces do indeed mean White Power/Pride (We got the best looking laces). Yellow laces mean that you have killed someone, and pink means you're a gay-basher. Blue is SHARP, and black is generic...."

More at link--lots of discussion about lace color, it must be a regional thing.


I have to wonder if Russell Bates and Abigail Sheehy of Palm Springs might have been wearing pink laces.


ETA: SHARP means "Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice".
 
Of course blue laces mean something. Thanks for pointing that out, Filly. I found this on one of my very favorite (RE: extreme sarcasm here) forums:

Note: Always racist and disturbing comments here. Always. But eye opening.

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t126093-2/

Symbolism of laces and braces

".....blue represented a cop killer, which I'm sure it does mean somewhere. Around here the blue laces are worn by anyone who claims to be a sXe Skinhead (pronounced straight-edge skinhead). They tend to be a little bit more violent and wear there hair short with a little short diagonal line cut into it, cutting across the front..."

and

"....In my area, red laces mean National Socialism. White laces do indeed mean White Power/Pride (We got the best looking laces). Yellow laces mean that you have killed someone, and pink means you're a gay-basher. Blue is SHARP, and black is generic...."

More at link--lots of discussion about lace color, it must be a regional thing.


I have to wonder if Russell Bates and Abigail Sheehy of Palm Springs might have been wearing pink laces.


ETA: SHARP means "Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice".





:doh::doh::doh:The poor little kid could have been confused enough by all those different sub groups and colors for good Lord's sake.



"Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice"? What the what?
 
Now 12, California Boy Comes to Trial in Killing of Neo-Nazi Father

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/u...-killing-of-neo-nazi-father.html?ref=us&_r=1&

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Both the prosecution and the defense involved in a trial set to start here on Monday basically agree on the following: Before dawn on May 1, 2011, 10-year-old Joseph Hall went to his family’s living room armed with a snub-nosed revolver, pointed it at his father’s head as he lay sleeping on the couch, and shot and killed him.

From there, the two sides are likely to differ on both the events that preceded the shooting and Joseph’s exact motive, elements complicated by his age and the fact that his father, Jeff Hall, was a rabid neo-Nazi. And those facts raise several more philosophical quandaries that, depending on how the judge weighs the answers, may determine the outcome of the trial. Among them: whether virulent racism can amount to parental abuse, whether a child exposed to such hate can understand the difference between right and wrong, and whether someone who grows up in such toxic circumstances can be blamed for wanting a way out. ...........

“What he did, had it been done by anybody older, there would be no doubt that it was a murder,” said Mr. Soccio, the chief deputy district attorney in Riverside County. “It’s planned. It’s premeditated. It was carried out in a cold, killing fashion. It is a murder.”

But Joseph’s public defender, Matthew J. Hardy, says his client has neurological and psychological problems, compounded by exposure to neo-Nazi “conditioning” and physical abuse in the home.

“He’s been conditioned to violence,” Mr. Hardy said, adding, “You have to ask yourself: Did this kid really know that this act was wrong based on all those things?”


More at link.......
 
I feel sorry for the kid. If Dad is dragging him to Neo-Nazi rallies, and he sees his dad preaching hatred and racism and violence, then how would the boy understand the difference between right and wrong. Everything his dad was preaching and modeling and stood for, was WRONG. Poor kid. He never had a chance, imo.
 
My father was a mean man full of hate a bigotry. I remember being embarrassed by his actions and I knew what he said and did was wrong, from a very young age.

I don't know why, even as a small child, I knew this wasn't normal. Probably because he stood out over everyone else.

I don't condone violence unless it's in self-defense, but I do feel sorry for this boy having to grow up around so much hate.
 

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