RALEIGH, N.C. — The man charged with killing a print shop employee at a North Carolina community college says he’s a neo-Nazi who hates gay people.
Kenneth Morgan Stancil III told Raleigh’s WRAL-TV he killed Ron Lane earlier this week because Lane had made sexual advances to Stancil’s 16-year-old brother. Lane’s cousin, Steven Smith, told that TV station that Lane never made sexual advances toward children or anyone he worked with.
During an appearance in a Goldsboro, North Carolina, courtroom Thursday to face a pending murder charge, Stancil again accused the victim, who was gay, of improperly approaching minors.
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The news you care about, reported on by the people who care about you.Superior Court Judge Arnold O. Jones II told Stancil he could face the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder.
“I know that. But I knew what I had to do, and I knew when I got caught, I knew in my mind I could get life, I could get the death penalty,” Stancil said, punctuating his response with an expletive. Jones told him to watch his language and when Stancil repeated the word the judge ordered law officers to hustle him from the courtroom.
Stancil returned several minutes later and was much more subdued, answering “Yes, sir” and “OK” to the judge.
In a telephone interview Wednesday from a Daytona Beach, Florida, jail, Stancil said Lane tried to take advantage of his brother.
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Stancil said Lane was looking for Stancil on Facebook and found his brother. A Goldsboro police spokesman did not return a phone message Thursday about that allegation. There were no criminal complaints filed by Stancil family members with either the Wayne County sheriff or Goldsboro police, Wayne County investigations clerk Ellen Grice said. There were no workplace complaints filed against Lane, Wayne Community College human resources director Ina Rawlinson said.
