Man sentenced to 10 years for attempting to hire hit man to kill black neighbor
U.S. District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks sentenced 26-year-old Brandon Lecroy on Thursday, The State reported. Hendricks ruled that Lecroy's offense qualified as a hate crime, but noted that the plan to have someone else killed was so serious she would have given him 10 years even if race wasn't a factor. Ten years is the maximum sentence for the offense.
The neighbor, identified only by the initials"F.J.," kept coming onto Lecroy's property, trying to start fights, and asking for food and to use the phone, Soderdahl said. Lecroy had repeatedly tried to get local police to keep the neighbor from trespassing, to no avail, she said. "Brandon called the KKK because who else was he going to call?" Soderdahl said."It had nothing to do with the color of his skin."
"Your honor, the fact that he reached out to the KKK — this is not a low-functioning individual," said Watkins, an assistant U.S. Attorney."It's telling that to get a black person eliminated, he turned to the KKK."
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