Missouri Bigot Admits to Shooting Teen Eight Times Because He's Gay

[Celerity]

“How to know if the police are looking for you,” the 26-year-old allegedly searched before he was arrested.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/missouri-bigot-malachi-robinson-admits-to-shooting-teen-eight-times-because-hes-gay


Malachi Robinson - Jackson County Sheriff's Office

A Missouri man pleaded guilty this week to shooting a teen eight times because he was gay, the Department of Justice said. Malachi Robinson may now face a lifetime behind bars if handed the maximum sentence for the crime, which the 26-year-old initially boasted about to friends and family before panicking as police centered their investigation on him, according to federal prosecutors.

A plea agreement that details the May 29, 2019, incident says Robinson fired a Taurus 9mm at an unnamed teen, striking him eight times, with three bullets to his chest, three to his right arm, one in his backside, and another that nearly detached his index finger. Miraculously, the teen survived the shooting. But he was hospitalized for two weeks and still requires ongoing treatment, the plea deal says.

The teen was shot in the woods of Swope Park, near the Kansas City public library where the two initially met and added each other on Facebook. The boy then messaged Robinson, asking if he wanted to have sex in the library bathroom, the plea deal said. Robinson responded, “I’m not really gay,” but later said he was willing to receive oral sex if the boy paid him $5.

That’s when Robinson lured the teen to the woods near the library. The plea deal says M.S. thought they were searching for a place to have sex, while Robinson was actually looking for a concealed spot to shoot him. “Might shoot this boy if he try some gay shit,” Robinson allegedly wrote to his girlfriend that day. Before any sexual acts were performed, the feds say Robinson opened fire on the teen and left him to die.

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[COL Mustard]

1. Just shows to go ya.

Bigots and haters come in all colors and shapes.

[Demovictory9]

10. Handsome guy..should have.put his energy towards modeling or other lookism based career

Instead will grow old in prison

[IcyPeas]

2. "Miraculously, the teen survived the shooting."

[COL Mustard]

13. Well, it WAS a 9mm

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A couple of steps up from a popgun. But then again, I've never been shot, except for that night in WWI. But we don't talk about that anymore.


Edited to include the tag, in case it wasn’t clear.

[Fla_Democrat]

17. As I've been told

"A 9 mm bullet blows the lung out of the body", so maybe he was only hit on one side.

[LonePirate]

3. Had he not been in the KC area (or St. Louis), a typical Missouri jury would have let him walk.

Republican evangelicals like those who inhabit most of Missouri are perfectly fine with using their LGBT neighbors for target practice.

[NullTuples]

4. "A plea agreement"??? Why? Why not prosecute him as fully as possible?

[LoisB]

6. I couldn't read the article but maybe it's to protect the teen from having to testify. I imagine

he and his family and attorneys want to keep his identity private.

[NullTuples]

14. thank you, I needed to hear that.

[LoisB]

16. You are welcome. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. I still hope he has to serve a

LOT of years.

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. Since it says he faces life in prison, I'm guessing the deal was to avoid the death penalty. Nt

[NullTuples]

15. I can't argue against that, thank you.

[LoisB]

5. I hope he gets the longest prison sentence possible plus a hate crime enhancement.

[Duncan Grant]

8. May his evil be returned to him in a hundredfold measure. (nt)

[DFW]

9. This nut case has a girlfriend?

That is pretty scary, too.

[roamer65]

12. Yup, model like face.

They will fight over him.