Smell of gunpowder recalled at hearing for Marines charged with murder

[82Marine89]

This has less to do with the fact they were Marines, and more to do with the fact four blacks kill a white guy and it's not a hate crime.



Four Marines charged with murdering their sergeant and his wife in the couple's French Valley home were seen the day of the killings with shotguns that smelled of gunpowder, a witness testified Friday.

Melissa Buck, 25, girlfriend of defendant Kevin Cox, and who shared a Fallbrook apartment with defendant Kesaun Sykes, testified that one of the defendants, Emrys "E" John, carried two shotguns that smelled like it had been recently fired. One of the men had a jewelry box taken from the victims' home, she testified at the hearing to determine whether the men should stand trial.

Buck said Sykes, Cox, John and defendant Tyrone Miller showed up together at the apartment on the day of the killings.

Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, and her husband Sgt. Janek Pietrzak, 24, were found bound with tape and shot in the head in their living room Oct. 15. Jenkins-Pietrzak was naked and had been sexually assaulted, and someone had tried to burn the home, investigators said.

Racial slurs were painted on the walls, but investigators have said financial gain, not race, was the motive. All four defendants are black, as was Jenkins-Pietrzak. Janek Pietrzak was white. According to court documents, Miller told investigators he and the other three defendants went to the home to rob the Pietrzaks.

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[Insein]

This has less to do with the fact they were Marines, and more to do with the fact four blacks kill a white guy and it's not a hate crime.



Four Marines charged with murdering their sergeant and his wife in the couple's French Valley home were seen the day of the killings with shotguns that smelled of gunpowder, a witness testified Friday.

Melissa Buck, 25, girlfriend of defendant Kevin Cox, and who shared a Fallbrook apartment with defendant Kesaun Sykes, testified that one of the defendants, Emrys "E" John, carried two shotguns that smelled like it had been recently fired. One of the men had a jewelry box taken from the victims' home, she testified at the hearing to determine whether the men should stand trial.

Buck said Sykes, Cox, John and defendant Tyrone Miller showed up together at the apartment on the day of the killings.

Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, and her husband Sgt. Janek Pietrzak, 24, were found bound with tape and shot in the head in their living room Oct. 15. Jenkins-Pietrzak was naked and had been sexually assaulted, and someone had tried to burn the home, investigators said.

Racial slurs were painted on the walls, but investigators have said financial gain, not race, was the motive. All four defendants are black, as was Jenkins-Pietrzak. Janek Pietrzak was white. According to court documents, Miller told investigators he and the other three defendants went to the home to rob the Pietrzaks.

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Dispicable all around. This does illustrate the point that Hate Crimes are political tools. They are used to make crimes like murder, rape and robbery an expedient tool for politicians to sow more seeds of hate in the masses and divide us into categories.

If hate crimes were an actual reality instead of something to pile on top of an already horrific act, then the above situation would fit the bill open and close. Racial slurs on walls? 4 blacks on 2 whites? It would not even be a question if roles were reversed. It would be front page in every paper for weeks and the news stations would do hours of commentary on the increase of hate related crime in this country.

Hate crimes are just another tool by government to keep us divided and easier to control.