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Race-fueled murder with Jeep brings life sentence with 28-year minimum for Russell Courtier
Also: White supremacist gets life for running down black man (Associated Press)
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Source: The Oregonian/OregonLive
Race-fueled murder with Jeep brings life sentence with 28-year minimum for Russell Courtier
Updated Apr 16, 3:41 PM; Posted Apr 16, 11:14 AM
By Aimee Green | The Oregonian/OregonLive
A white man who murdered an African American teenager out of racial hatred on a Gresham street was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with a minimum of 28 years before he’s eligible for release.
Russell Orlando Courtier, 40, also must serve that prison time on top of a four-year term he previously received for a 2015 bar attack.
Courtier had hoped for a slightly shorter sentence -- life with a minimum of 25 years -- for killing 19-year-old Larnell Bruce Jr. by running into him with a Jeep after the two got into a fistfight outside a 7-Eleven in August 2016. A jury found him guilty in March.
The prosecution isn’t sure what prompted the fight, but said Courtier was a member of a white supremacist prison gang and was wearing the gang’s logo on his baseball cap and had it tattooed on one of his legs when he encountered Bruce outside the convenience store.
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Updated Apr 16, 3:41 PM; Posted Apr 16, 11:14 AM
By Aimee Green | The Oregonian/OregonLive
A white man who murdered an African American teenager out of racial hatred on a Gresham street was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with a minimum of 28 years before he’s eligible for release.
Russell Orlando Courtier, 40, also must serve that prison time on top of a four-year term he previously received for a 2015 bar attack.
Courtier had hoped for a slightly shorter sentence -- life with a minimum of 25 years -- for killing 19-year-old Larnell Bruce Jr. by running into him with a Jeep after the two got into a fistfight outside a 7-Eleven in August 2016. A jury found him guilty in March.
The prosecution isn’t sure what prompted the fight, but said Courtier was a member of a white supremacist prison gang and was wearing the gang’s logo on his baseball cap and had it tattooed on one of his legs when he encountered Bruce outside the convenience store.
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Read more: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/04/race-fueled-hate-crime-murder-with-jeep-nets-russell-courtier-life-in-prison-with-28-year-minimum.html