White man indicted on murder charges in black men's killings
Source: Associated Press
Updated 3:53 pm, Thursday, November 30, 2017
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana grand jury indicted a white man on murder charges Thursday in the shooting deaths of two black men, attacks that police have said may have been racially motivated.
Kenneth Gleason, 23, is charged with first-degree murder and second-degree murder in the separate Baton Rouge shootings that killed 49-year-old Donald Smart and 59-year-old Bruce Cofield in September.
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Authorities have said surveillance footage and DNA link Gleason to the crimes. In each case, police said, the killer opened fire from his car, then walked up to the victim as he lay on the ground and fired again repeatedly.
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A law enforcement official told The Associated Press in September that authorities found a handwritten copy of an Adolf Hitler speech at the home Gleason shared with his parents. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.
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Kenneth Gleason
Hitler speech found at home of white man accused of killing two blacks
By PRESS ASSOCIATION
PUBLISHED: 12:55 EST, 19 September 2017 | UPDATED: 14:26 EST, 19 September 2017
A copy of an Adolf Hitler speech has been found at the home of a 23-year-old white suspect accused of killing two black men and firing on a family, in a string of attacks that police say may have been racially motivated.
A law enforcement official said the Hitler speech was found at the home of Kenneth Gleason in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and investigators said DNA on shell casings and other evidence linked him to the crimes.
Gleason was led away in handcuffs on Tuesday, just before authorities held a news conference to announce that he would be charged with first-degree murder over the fatal shootings last week of a homeless man and a dishwasher who was walking to work.
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