Chiman Rai, 68, was convicted on seven charges, including felony murder and burglary. Prosecutors will seek the death penalty.

The story is that He disapproved his son getting married to a black female. Some people in India believe in the caste system.  Normally all the marraiges are arranged.  The parents usually pick matees.  Well it happens that his son ends up getting a black women ( Sparkle Rai) pregnant.  Quickly he felt like he needed to get married to her.

According to Associated Press reports, two women arrived at the apartment of Rai’s son Ricky and his new wife, pretending to deliver a package. A 300-pound hit man then choked Sparkle Reid Rai with a vacuum cleaner cord and stabbed her a dozen times within earshot of her 6-month-old daughter.

This case, which turned from a simple murder investigation into an alleged hate crime across two communities of color, highlights the complexity of race relations in a country that has often framed its prejudice in black and white.

But racial intolerance, sometimes in the form of violence, is increasingly more inclusive. Experts say that such bias is nothing new, although the national immigration debate has fueled that hate, giving bigots of all complexions more excuses to act on their ignorance.

Donna Lowry, who married Sparkle Reid’s father and is now raising the victim’s daughter, said, “It was such a shock to us when we found out a few years ago and we were floored.

“We had no idea it would go in this direction,” she told ABCNEWS.com today en route to the trial. “It’s mind-boggling. We are raising her biracial child and there is so much hatred on the other side of the family.”

Rai’s lawyer, Don Samuel, had earlier told ABCNEWS.com, “I’m arguing that my client is not guilty. There is no racial issue involved at all.”

A dozen witnesses of all colors who had known Rai — once a professor at two historically black colleges — said he was not a racist. But Rai’s former cellmate, a convicted forger, testified this week that the accused had made bigoted remarks while in jail, according to reports in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

American-born Amardeep Singh, director of the national Sikh Coalition, which defends the civil and legal rights of Sikhs, admits that his own ethnic group is capable of bigotry.

“You don’t come to American to learn to be a bigot,” Singh said. “There is bigotry in India. The caste system is deeply ingrained and South Asians in the U.S. still practice caste exclusion.”

And he, too, has been a victim

 The mother of victim, Donna Lowry Reid, adopted the 6 month old baby.  The father shortly left Atlanta and moved to Chicago.  He then married a new woman who this time happens to be an Indian.  He actually hid his former life to his new bride.  He has no contact with his own child since the murder and his new wife did not know his gruesome past.  Well that’s not the whole story.  There still is something very fishy here.

They was caught around 5:20 am this morning.  They was about to hit up the outlet mall in Dawsonville

The victim, identified as Lal Lucky Ko, 20, of Lawrenceville was found shot to death on the side of Oakland Road near Herrington Road, said Cpl. Darren Moloney, spokesman for the Gwinnett County Police Department. Read On

Residents in the local community can rest easy.  His father 85 year old father said:

“I don’t know nothing. I’m not hiding anything. ... He’s not here,”

I have heard that this has been practiced for thousands of years and this could be the first to go to trial.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.—The trial of an Atlanta-area father accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors is focusing attention on an African practice experts say is becoming more common in the United States.

 

Denies charge

Khalid Adem, a 30-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, is charged with aggravated battery and cruelty to children. Human rights observers said they think this is the first criminal case in the United States involving the practice.  Read On

The Clayton County School System is facing some tough questions after police said an elementary school student was groped. The girl’s parents said they want to know how the man got on campus and why police weren’t contacted sooner.   See the Video

This is such a sad story.  The question of the story is why wasn’t a two year old in a car seat?

A 2-year-old Norcross boy died Sunday evening after he fell out of the pickup truck his mother was driving and was struck by the car his father was driving.  Rest of story

Khalid Adem is accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors.
A father stands accused of the unthinkable: brutally cutting his daughter’s genitals.

The girl was only 2.

Monday, activists from all over the world will be focused on a Gwinnett County courtroom as Khalid Adem, accused of cruelty to a child and aggravated battery for allegedly circumcising his daughter, goes on trial.  Read On

A suspected bank robber who shot an armored car guard Monday apparently shot himself as officers closed in on him, Henry County police said.

It was the second bank robbery of the afternoon in Henry County, Lt. Jason Bolton said.

Bolton said the guard, Dywane Trigg, 35, of Marietta, was shot in the parking lot of Bank of America on Ga. 138 at North Henry Boulevard in Stockbridge Monday afternoon.

The suspect fled the scene and was discovered by police behind Big Lots, in a shopping center just west of the bank, Bolton said.

Confronted by police, the suspect shot himself and died at the scene, he said.  continue

Unfortunately I don’t have tickets to this game.  I heard it might be a blowout

The Homeland Security Department says it’s investigating a threat to Atlanta’s Georgia Dome and several other NFL stadiums. The government wants you to know – it does not think the threat is credible.

 

A web site is claiming that seven stadiums – including the Georgia Dome in Atlanta – will be hit with dirty bombs this weekend. continue