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Hartford police say man decapitated landlord during rent dispute, claimed 'sovereign' status
FOX News ^ | August 1, 2020 11:40am EDT | Peter Aitken

Posted on 08/23/2023 9:48:33 AM PDT by Red Badger

Accused killer refused public defender at arraignment

A Connecticut man decapitated his landlord with a sword during a dispute over unpaid rent, authorities said.

Hartford police responded to a 911 call the morning of July 25 from landlord Victor King, who said his roommate, Jerry Thompson, had been waving a Samurai sword at him, according to the Hartford Courant.

The pair was arguing about Thompson’s overdue rent, with King telling Thompson he had to move out if he couldn't pay.

The following morning, police received calls from King’s friends who were concerned for his safety after they couldn't reach him.

Officers forced their way into King’s home later that afternoon and found his body slashed and covered in bedding, with blood everywhere.

A medical examiner’s report observed injuries consistent with a large, edged weapon, noting “lacerations to the … right arm, upper chest and across the neck causing decapitation,” KTLA 5 reported.

“It was pretty brutal,” King’s cousin, Jim Banks, told the Courant. “I can’t imagine him doing anything that would provoke somebody. That just wasn’t in his personality.”

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To: Red Badger

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2021-07-06/all-revd-up-the-history-of-black-sovereignty-groups-like-rise-of-the-moors

Moorish sovereign citizens. Rather different, but just as daft.


41 posted on 08/23/2023 11:10:41 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: Angelino97
In the photos the landlord was white and the killer is black. (In the article he's also called "roommate", so maybe the "landlord" was letting the killer live with him and split the rent.) Don't ask me whatever shade of white or off-white or Ashkenazi Jew or whatever the landlord was -- I can just see that he was white. The same with the killer being black but don't ask me if he had certifiable slave blood making him black enough to criticize Obama (typed in my best OOC voice LOL).


42 posted on 08/23/2023 11:20:58 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: cgbg

My buddy is a landlord in SE Maine.
However, he uses a management company that actually collects the rents. Screens tenants. Gets those emergency calls, etc.

Right now the multifamily properties that come up for sale around here in southern NH go so fast it is stupid.
There was one about a month ago went up for sale that I actually considered, briefly. A three family in one of the suburbs west of Nashua. It had a three bd rm. A two bd rm and a single bedroom apartment. All long term tenants. Rents were below market. Total rent of $55K/year. It had over six full price offers. It went for almost $100K over asking price. They paid cash.


43 posted on 08/23/2023 11:22:18 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

My grandfather was a landlord for decades—no issues.

Today the markets are much more volatile and there is always the risk that state or local regulators will decide on anti-landlord regulations.

Some folks make a lot of money doing it—but I didn’t and don’t have the stomach for it.


44 posted on 08/23/2023 11:25:07 AM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: NWFree
Have fun with your dork head status while you rot in prison

What makes you think he'll go to jail. Some dopey lefty judge will declare that it's reparations for slavery, and he was just trying to get ahead.

45 posted on 08/23/2023 11:28:21 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: jonrick46

O G. the KI!!ER IS BLACK FOREIGNER!!! MUSLIM?


46 posted on 08/23/2023 11:28:56 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Red Badger

Trial, conviction, sentencing, execution by Labor Day, 9/4. Here? Of course not. That could only occur in a truly civilized country.


47 posted on 08/23/2023 11:33:20 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: AppyPappy

The US needs to take over an deserted island and send all the Sovtards there and they can do whatever they want. My favorite is their claim “I’m not driving, I’m traveling so I don’t need a license, registration, or insurance.” I don’t think they’ve ever won a case.


48 posted on 08/23/2023 1:20:04 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: Boogieman
Third paragraph...

"Hartford police responded to a 911 call the morning of July 25 from landlord Victor King, who said his roommate, Jerry Thompson, had been waving a Samurai sword at him, according to the Hartford Courant."

49 posted on 08/23/2023 1:49:31 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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To: tina07

Ah, so I guess they did respond, they just didn’t do anything about the guy waving the sword around.


50 posted on 08/23/2023 1:50:54 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: jonrick46

He seems nice.


51 posted on 08/23/2023 2:05:04 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-M)
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