{"id":52529,"date":"2023-03-17T21:33:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T04:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52529"},"modified":"2023-03-17T21:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T04:34:14","slug":"white-supremacist-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison-for-racially-motivated-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52529","title":{"rendered":"White Supremacist Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Racially-Motivated Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">GEORGIA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">A federal judge on Thursday in Atlanta sentenced Larry Edward Foxworth, 48, of Jonesboro, Georgia, to 20 years in prison for a hate crime, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Foxworth shot into two convenience stores trying to kill those inside because he believed they were Black or Arab.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-WJHqCyRX74\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(Two Months Earlier)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">According to court records, at approximately 2:35 a.m. on July 30, 2021, Foxworth fired numerous rounds from a Glock pistol through a window and door of a gas station convenience store located in Jonesboro, Georgia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Just minutes later, at approximately 2:57 a.m., he again fired multiple rounds from the same handgun through the windows and door of a different gas station convenience store located nearby. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Both stores were open and occupied when Foxworth shot into the businesses. No one was injured during either shooting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Clayton County Police Department officers arrested Foxworth shortly after the second attack. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">After his arrest, Foxworth told officers that he had targeted the stores because he wanted to kill Arab and Black people, and he believed that there were people inside the stores who belonged to those groups. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Foxworth expressed hope that he had killed his targets and professed belief in white supremacist ideology, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cThe defendant fired a gun into a store wanting to kill people who he thought were Black or Arab,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division. \u201cHate-fueled violence not only traumatizes the victims, but it threatens and intimidates an entire community. 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