GUILTY KY - Maurice Stallard, 69 & Vickie Lee Jones 67, fatally shot in hate crime, Louisville, 24 Oct 2018

[CocoChanel]

Kroger Shooting: Accused shooter tried to get into Baptist church minutes before attack

 

[Indy Anna]

Kroger grocery store shooting investigated as possible hate crime

JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. -- A federal prosecutor says the shooting at a Kentucky grocery store that left two people dead is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Fifty-one-year-old Gregory Bush has been charged with murder and other crimes in the fatal shooting of two shoppers at a Kroger store on Wednesday afternoon.

Both victims were black. Bush is white.

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Bush's ex-wife is African-American, and she has received protection orders against him after violent outbursts, including an incident in 2009 when she told police he called her racial epithets during a custody exchange of their son. They divorced in 2000.

Victims of shooting:

 

[Indy Anna]

Activists ask for hate crime charge in Kroger shooting

The Kentucky Alliance Against Racist And Political Repression teamed up with several other organizations and asked for justice to be carried through on both federal and state levels.

On Sunday afternoon, Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) said they want the shooter to be charged with same level of crime as the recent mail bomber and Saturday’s synagogue shooting suspect.

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[Indy Anna]

Kentucky man charged with hate crimes in fatal shootings of black customers at Kroger

he man accused of fatally shooting two African-American customers at a grocery store in Kentucky last month was charged Thursday with federal hate-crime and firearm offenses, the Justice Department said.

Gregory A. Bush, 51, was charged in a six-count indictment that carries a possible death sentence - though the Justice Department said it would determine later whether to seek that penalty. Bush had been held on murder charges in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and pleaded not guilty.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Prosecutors said during a preliminary hearing Wednesday that a Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center report found Gregory Bush, 51, competent to stand trial on murder, wanton endangerment and attempted murder charges stemming from the October shooting.

Bush, of Louisville, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, two counts of wanton endangerment and one count of attempted murder. He appeared at Wednesday's hearing in an orange jumpsuit.

A Jefferson Circuit Judge will decide whether to accept the findings of the report and rule Bush competent during a Oct. 31 hearing.

Bush allegedly shot and killed Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vickie Lee Jones, 67, at the Kroger off Taylorsville Road in Jeffersontown on Oct. 24.

Authorities said Bush and another shopper who was armed also exchanged gunfire in the parking lot of the Kroger.

Kroger shooting suspect is now competent to stand trial

 

[0101ABA]

In May, Bush was ruled incompetent to stand trial, but a doctor who evaluated Bush said he would likely gain competency in the future.

During the May hearing, Jefferson Circuit Judge Annie O'Connell ordered Bush be sent to the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center to undergo the forced 60-day medication treatment.

In July, prosecutors said during a court hearing that a KCPC report found Bush was competent, but O'Connell had the ultimate authority to accept the report's findings.

On Thursday, both the prosecution and defense told O'Connell that a new evaluation and more treatment for Bush is needed. O'Connell agreed.

Kroger shooting suspect Gregory Bush to undergo another competency evaluation

 

[JerseyGirl]

Louisville Kroger shooting suspect Gregory Bush competent for trial

A pretrial conference for Bush's case is scheduled for Sept. 29.

 

[Knitty]

How incredibly sad. I hope the 12-year old grandson (who is 14 now) is okay. What an awful trauma to experience.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Jeffersontown Kroger shooter Gregory Bush to spend the rest of his life in prison for murder convictions

 

[Gibbo214]

Jeffersontown Kroger shooter Gregory Bush to spend the rest of his life in prison for murder convictions

It is easy to blame voices in your head for your hate.
He was scared for his family? So he threatened them to the extent that his wife had to have a restraining order?