In Oklahoma, funeral services will be held Friday for Khalid Jabara, the Lebanese-American man police say was killed by his next-door neighbor in a possible hate crime. Police say Stanley Majors will be charged with first-degree murder for Monday’s killing and acknowledged he had a long-standing animosity toward Jabara’s family. Majors, who is white, is already facing assault charges for hitting Haifa Jabara, Khalid’s mother, with his car last year while she was jogging. Before that, Haifa Jabara already had a restraining order against Majors after he had threatened and harassed her. Despite all this, Majors was released on bail earlier this year and returned to his home. The Jabaras say Majors had threatened them and used racial slurs repeatedly since 2013. Majors had been arrested at least once for violating the restraining order before hitting Haifa Jabara with his car. Ten minutes before he was shot on Monday, Khalid Jabara called police to report suspicious activity around the family’s home. Police left without speaking to Majors, but admitted to journalists later that Majors was known to be hostile toward the Jabaras. Victoria Jabara Wiliams, Khalid’s sister, wrote on Facebook: “My family lived in fear of this man and his hatred for years. Yet in May, not even one year after he ran over our mother and despite our repeated protests, he was released from jail with no conditions on his bond—no ankle monitor, no drug/alcohol testing, nothing.”
Hate Crime Charges Possible for Oklahoma Man Who Killed Arab Neighbor
HeadlineAug 18, 2016