"Young, Gay and Murdered" A Year Ago 15 y.o. Larry King was murdered.

[bluedawg12]

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/

More Details Come Out on Larry King’s Killer
Timothy Kincaid
February 12th, 2009




A year ago this week, 14 year old Brandon McInerney calmly walked up and shot two bullets into the back of 15 year old Larry King’s head. The students who knew both children said that King was killed because he was gay.

Almost immediately, McInerney’s lawyer started an image campaign designed to present King as the aggressor and McInerney as the victim. The pinacle of his efforts came in July of last year when Newsweek’s gossip writer Ramin Setoodeh** ran a hit piece on King, claiming that he “flaunted his sexuality” and engaged in “inappropriate, sometimes harmful, behavior” and insinuating that King was a sexual predator who pushed McInerney beyond his breaking point
<snip>

McInerney was the aggressor, teasing the effeminate King for weeks and vowing to “get a gun and shoot” him, according to a prosecution brief.

The additional charges of the prosecution include:

McInerney looked for other to join in a gang beating of King in the days before the shooting. Unable to find others interested he decided to kill King.
McInerney was familiar with the gun with which he killed King, having used it for target practice.
It wasn’t until King had suffered months of being called “faggot” by McInerney and others that he began to retort by making sexual taunts to McInerney.
Other students heard McInerney threaten to shoot King in the days before he did so.
In addition to the skinhead and neo-Nazi materials, McInerney also had a training video called “Shooting in Realistic Environments.”

<snip>

..............
http://www.newsweek.com/id/147790/output/print
Young, Gay and Murdered
Kids are coming out younger, but are schools ready to handle the complex issues of identity and sexuality? For Larry King, the question had tragic implications.

Ramin Setoodeh**
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Jul 28, 2008

But when Averi got home that day, she learned that Larry had suffered a fatal stroke. Larry was pronounced brain-dead that afternoon, and the family decided to donate his organs. The following day, Feb. 14, doctors harvested his pancreas, liver, lungs and the most important organ of all, which now beats inside the chest of a 10-year-old girl. On Valentine's Day, Larry King gave away his heart, but not in the way he thought he would.

[xchrom]

1. recommend in memory. nt

[beam me up scottie]

2. k&r

Larry's life was hard from the beginning. His biological mother was a drug user; his father wasn't in the picture. When Greg and Dawn King took him in at age 2, the family was told he wasn't being fed regularly. Early on, a speech impediment made Larry difficult to understand, and he repeated first grade because he had trouble reading. He was a gentle child who loved nature and crocheting, but he also acted out from an early age. "We couldn't take him to the grocery store without him shoplifting," Greg says. "We couldn't get him to clean up his room. We sent him upstairs—he'd get a screwdriver and poke holes in the walls." He was prescribed ADHD medication, and Greg says Larry was diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder, a rare condition in which children never fully bond with their caregivers or parents.

Kids started whispering about Larry when he was in third grade at Hathaway Elementary School. "In a school of 700 students, you'd know Larry," says Sarah Ranjbar, one of Larry's principals. "He was slightly effeminate but very sure of his personality." Finally, his best friend, Averi Laskey, pulled him aside one day at the end of class. "I said, 'Larry, are you gay?' He said, 'Yeah, why?' " He was 10. Averi remembers telling Larry she didn't care either way, but Larry started telling other students, and they did. They called him slurs and avoided him at recess. One Halloween, someone threw a smoke bomb into his house, almost killing the family's Jack Russell terrier. In the sixth grade, a girl started a "Burn Book"—an allusion to a book in the movie "Mean Girls," where bullies scribble nasty rumors about the people they hate—about Larry. The Larry book talked about how he was gay and falsely asserted that he dressed in Goth and drag. And it ended with a threat: "I hate Larry King. I wish he was dead," according to one parent's memory of the book. "The principal called my wife on the phone and she was crying," Greg says. "She found the book, and said we needed to do something to help protect Larry." His parents transferred him to another elementary school, hoping he could get a fresh start before he started junior high.

What a sad story for everyone involved. He must have felt so alone, I wish someone had been able to reach him.

[yellerpup]

3. Poor baby.

Such cruelty for a boy to endure in his short lifetime. RIP, Larry. :cry:

[mitchtv]

4. the punk that did it needs to be treated as an adult

or is that reserved only for killing straits? I know there is some controversy about it and so not know at theis point the status

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. The National Day of Silence will be in his honor this year.

I will be participating, as will most of my school.

http://www.dayofsilence.org/

The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. This year’s event was held in memory of Lawrence King, a California 8th-grader who was shot and killed Feb. 12 by a classmate because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. Hundreds of thousands of students came together on April 25 to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior.

[bluedawg12]

6. Good for the kids that came out in support. They give us hope

maybe future generations will have a kinder, gentler heart and greater tolerance for a variety of human self expression.

[defendandprotect]

7. The right wing has been fighting to keep schools from acceptance of

homosexuality ---

With organized patriarchal religion still teaching intolerance and hatred for

homosexuals, it's no wonder that a large part of the population is still homophobic.

Let me suggest to members of these religions that they might turn their backs on the

altar the next time any hatred for homosexuals is preached from the pulpit.

Meanwhile, we should set the public schools free to honestly discuss homosexuality and

take very seriously any name-calling or bullying of other students.

Especially, bullying with homosexual overtones!

[bluedawg12]

8. Beautifully said.

It's not just external crime, against gay kids and teens, but also the internal damage it does to the spirit and psyche.

This right win insanity must stop, and I agree, too much comes from the pulpit and people of conscience need to speak up, walk out, stop donating. Whatever it takes to send a message that the hateful words of man, are not the spiritual healing balm of a higer power.