A white Arizona man newly released from prison has been charged with first-degree murder in the grisly slaying of a black teenager whose rap music he claimed was menacing. The suspect, year-old Michael Adams, told authorities that unprovoked, he stabbed year-old Elijah Al-Amin in the back with a pocket knife and slit his throat, The Washington Post reported. Stumbling outside, Al-Amin fell to the ground where witnesses engaged in futile efforts to save him, a probable cause statement obtained by the Post said. Two days before the killing, Adams was released from prison. Maricopa County Form 4 records do not indicate Michael Paul Adams, who police reported confessing to the crime, as "mentally disturbed" at the time of his arrest pic.
White Arizona Man Charged In Slaying Of Black Teen Over Rap Music
White man slits black teen's throat for playing rap, police say
According to investigators the teen was buying a soda after getting off from a late shift, and had his back turned when Adams came up behind him and stabbed him in the neck. According to court filings, Adams told investigators he heard Amin listening to rap in his car before entering a Circle K grocer in Peoria, Arizona, last Thursday, in the early hours of Fourth of July. The case reminded some experts and activists of the killing of Jordan Davis, a black Florida teen shot in by a white man after a dispute over the volume of music coming from his vehicle. The suspected Arizona attacker had been released from prison less than 48 hours prior to the incident, and his attorney laid blame with the department of corrections for putting a mentally ill man on the streets with no support.
Civil rights advocates and candidate Cory Booker are calling for investigators to treat the killing of a black Arizona teen last week as a hate crime. Police say at a. Just minutes after Al-Amin stepped into the store, Michael Paul Adams came up behind him and allegedly slit his throat with a pocket knife, then stabbed him twice in the back. Police tried to revive the teen before taking him to a local hospital. Al-Amin was pronounced dead less than half hour after he was stabbed.
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