The Kansas City branch library where Robinson met MS.
In the last few days, bloody and unusual details have become known about the day a man called Malachi Robinson shot a teenager for his sexual orientation in Kansas City, United States.
The hate crime occurred on May 29, 2019 and finally a plea deal was reached on Thursday.
On that day, the attacker, a 26-year-old man, was in a branch of the city’s public library when he came across the intended victim, a young man known as SMwho after engaging in a brief conversation with him asked if she could add him to Facebook.
Malachi Robinson, the man who shot MS. Photo: huffpost.com JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE (MO).
When he got his username, MS asked him for his sexual orientation and asked him if he wanted to go with him to the library bathroom. Robinson told him he wasn’t gay and agreed to get oral sex for $ 5 outside the club.
While all of this was happening, Malachi sent screenshots of his Facebook Messenger chat with MS to his girlfriend telling her that he “could shoot” the boy if he “tries gay shit”.
Eventually, Robinson asked MS to go to a nearby forest. When he was already there, the teenager realized what was going to happen and he wanted to leave, but the other did not allow him to escape: he pulled out a gun and shot him eight times. Three in the chest, three in the right arm, one in the buttock and one in the right hand.
Malachi was arrested on June 3, 2019, but not before trying to escape the police in very absurd ways. She cut her hair and googled “how to know if the police are looking for me”; “When the police will arrest me after a murder” and “how to escape a murder in real life”.
Where Robinson crossed paths with MS.
These days, Robinson confessed to having used a weapon to intentionally kill the teenager because he understood that the other “threw himself” at him.
When sentenced on December 15th, Malachi could be sent to life imprisonment without parole.
According to Buzzfeed News, MS spent two weeks in the hospital and continues to receive professional care for her injuries.
A statement on the deputy attorney general’s case Kristen Clarke, of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, notes, “This assassination attempt reminds us that hate crimes against the LGBTQI + community are real and need to be addressed. Violent acts directed at people based on their sexual orientation are heinous crimes that have no place in our country “.
Source: Clarin
