August 24, 2016
By Samantha Vicent and Arianna Pickard
Tulsa County prosecutors (click here) on Tuesday filed first-degree murder and hate crime charges against a man accused of fatally shooting his next-door neighbor this month after years of reportedly escalating ethnic-based harassment against him and his family.
By Samantha Vicent and Arianna Pickard
Tulsa County prosecutors (click here) on Tuesday filed first-degree murder and hate crime charges against a man accused of fatally shooting his next-door neighbor this month after years of reportedly escalating ethnic-based harassment against him and his family.
Stanley Majors, 61, is accused of shooting 37-year-old Lebanese-American Khalid Jabara on Aug. 12 on Jabara’s front porch, in the 9300 block of South 85th East Avenue. Majors was also charged Tuesday with felony possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony, a misdemeanor count of malicious intimidation and harassment, and a misdemeanor count of threatening a violent act.
“Under Oklahoma law a person is presumed innocent until a judge or jury determines otherwise. The death of Khalid Jabara is tragic and our sympathies are with his family,” District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said in a news release Tuesday afternoon.
The intimidation or harassment misdemeanor count alleges that Majors — between July 1, 2013, and Aug. 12 of this year — “unlawfully, maliciously, willfully, wrongfully and intentionally, and without justifiable or excusable cause, by maliciously and with specific intent to intimidate and harass because of race, color, religion, ancestry and national origin,” threatened to harm Khalid Jabara’s mother, Haifa Jabara, and her family, including Khalid....
