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   From: Davecross@kremlin.ru   
      
   A black California man who killed three people in Fresno in 2017   
   was convicted of murder Wednesday in the racially motivated   
   rampage.   
      
   Kori Ali Muhammad, 42, was found guilty on three counts of   
   second-degree murder and one count of first-degree murder in the   
   April 18, 2017, slayings as well as a previous killing of a   
   security guard outside a motel, NBC affiliate KSEE of Fresno   
   reported.   
      
   The trial will move to the sanity phase Monday, and the outcome   
   of that will determine whether Muhammad is hospitalized or   
   sentenced to prison, the station reported.   
      
   Muhammad surrendered to police after he fired 17 shots in less   
   than a minute at four Fresno locations in an area near the   
   city's office of Catholic Charities, authorities have said.   
      
   The Fresno police chief said at the time that Muhammed is a   
   racist who planned "to kill as many white males as possible,"   
   and who advocated for the creation of a separate country for all   
   of the United States' non-white residents.   
      
   Zackary David Randalls, 34, of Clovis, and Mark James Gassett,   
   37, and David Martin Jackson, 58, both of Fresno, were killed in   
   the attack.   
      
   At the time, Muhammad was wanted in connection with the shooting   
   death of Carl Williams, 25, a security guard at a Motel 6, a   
   week prior.   
      
   The convictions handed down Wednesday relate to all four   
   killings. Muhammad in March testified that he killed all four   
   people and that in the downtown Fresno shootings, he had planned   
   to kill white men.   
      
   Muhammad's attorney, Richard Beshwate, said the jury was   
   conscientious but he would have liked all of the convictions to   
   be second-degree murder "based upon his mental-health issues,"   
   according to video from The Fresno Bee newspaper.   
      
   "We'll see where we're at in the next phase," Beshwate said.   
      
   If the jury finds Muhammad was not sane at the time of the   
   killings, he would spend the rest of his life in a state   
   hospital, according to the newspaper. If they decide he was   
   sane, he could face the death penalty or life in prison.   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-man-convicted-   
   murder-racist-shooting-spree-killed-3-fresno-n1190171   
        
      
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