I’ve been following the coverage of the tragic disappearance and murder of Portland area 19-year-old Cody Myers, but today’s news adds several new, disturbing details to the case.
White supremacist and suspected murderer David Pedersen summoned a reporter to his Northern California jail cell and told her that he had killed his father, stepmother, and also “a negro” in Eureka, California. Court documents obtained by FOX 12 say that Pedersen and his girlfriend told detectives that they killed Myers because his name sounded Jewish. They also said they were traveling to Sacramento to “kill more Jews.”
All of this is strange and terrible.
Prosecutors in the case have not said whether they’ll pursue the case as a hate crime.
Yeesh.
Scary to think what else they’d have confused for a Jewish-sounding name.
And everyone’s worried about Muslims. Good job, America!
Not that it’s much more enjoyable to be killed in a less absurd and terrible killing spree.