Video After The Jump
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In 2018, Gregory Bush walked into the Jeffersontown Kroger, shot Maurice Stallard, then walked into the parking lot & shot Vickie Jones.
Thursday in court, a judge asked Bush, a white man, if he shot the two victims because they were Black. He said yes.
Bush pled guilty to six federal charges: two counts of shooting & killing a victim based on race, and one count of attempting to shoot a victim based on race. The other three charges are gun related.
The maximum sentence in federal court Bush can receive is life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The death penalty was taken off the table at the request of former U.S. Attorney General William Barr in exchange from a guilty plea from Bush. Jones’s sister, Samuella Gathright, said she has mixed feelings about that exchange.
“I’m a Christian, my family are Christians & I don’t think we would get anything out of him being sentenced to death,” Gathright said. “As long as he never walks this earth again, I think I can live with that.”
Bush will be sentenced June 24 at 1 p.m.
In December, Bush pled guilty, but mentally ill, to murder, attempted murder & wanton endangerment in state court.
He has already been sentenced to life in prison for those crimes.
Source: WHAS 11
Follow Me
}
Comments