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The case of a white Oklahoma merchant recently convicted of killing an armed black teenager attempting to rob his store has sparked a national debate.
To critics, 59-year-old pharmacist Jerome Ersland is a gun-toting vigilante who dealt out his own brand of murderous justice. To admirers, Ersland is a courageous and law-abiding hero whose actions were justified. The controversial case became even more volatile Thursday when a jury found Ersland guilty of first-degree murder for the 2009 slaying of 16-year-old Antwun Parker.
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Jerome Ersland is lead to the courtroom by Oklahoma County sheriff deputies for a bond hearing at the Oklahoma County Courthouse in Oklahoma City, Thursday, May 28, 2009. Confronted by two holdup men, pharmacist Jerome Ersland pulled a gun, shot one of them in the head and chased the other away. Then, in a scene recorded by the drugstore's security camera, he went behind the counter, got another gun, and pumped five more bullets into the wounded teenager as he lay on the floor. Now Ersland has been convicted of first-degree murder in a case that has stirred a furious debate over vigilante justice and self-defense and turned the pharmacist into something of a folk hero.
THIS "CRIMINAL" WAS A LT. COLONEL IN THE USAF AND A VETERAN OF DESERT STORM. THOSE JURORS MUST HAVE BEEN IMPORTED FROM THE BRONX.
He will be up for parole in 38 years!
The case of a white Oklahoma merchant recently convicted of killing an armed black teenager attempting to rob his store has sparked a national debate.
To critics, 59-year-old pharmacist Jerome Ersland is a gun-toting vigilante who dealt out his own brand of murderous justice. To admirers, Ersland is a courageous and law-abiding hero whose actions were justified. The controversial case became even more volatile Thursday when a jury found Ersland guilty of first-degree murder for the 2009 slaying of 16-year-old Antwun Parker.
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Jerome Ersland is lead to the courtroom by Oklahoma County sheriff deputies for a bond hearing at the Oklahoma County Courthouse in Oklahoma City, Thursday, May 28, 2009. Confronted by two holdup men, pharmacist Jerome Ersland pulled a gun, shot one of them in the head and chased the other away. Then, in a scene recorded by the drugstore's security camera, he went behind the counter, got another gun, and pumped five more bullets into the wounded teenager as he lay on the floor. Now Ersland has been convicted of first-degree murder in a case that has stirred a furious debate over vigilante justice and self-defense and turned the pharmacist into something of a folk hero.
THIS "CRIMINAL" WAS A LT. COLONEL IN THE USAF AND A VETERAN OF DESERT STORM. THOSE JURORS MUST HAVE BEEN IMPORTED FROM THE BRONX.
He will be up for parole in 38 years!