XPost: talk.politics.guns, comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.politics.homosexuality   
   XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sac.politics   
   From: vacancy@kamala.harris   
      
   A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to life in prison for killing his romantic   
   partner and burning his body to cover up their relationship, authorities said   
   On Friday, Sept. 27, a Philadelphia jury convicted Kylen Pratt, 23, of   
   first-degree murder for the brutal 2022 slaying of Naasire Johnson, 20   
   “Make no mistake,” Assistant District Attorney Cydney Pope said in a   
   statement. “The murder of Naasire Johnson was a hate crime. Kylen Pratt did   
   not want anyone to know of his romantic involvement with the victim”   
      
   A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to life in prison for killing his romantic   
   partner and burning his body to cover up their relationship, authorities said.   
      
   On Friday, Sept. 27, a Philadelphia jury convicted Kylen Pratt, 23, of   
   first-degree murder for the brutal 2022 slaying of Naasire Johnson, 20, in the   
   city’s Brewerytown section, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office   
   announced in a statement.   
      
   Following his conviction, a judge sentenced Pratt to a mandatory sentence of   
   life in state incarceration without the possibility of parole followed by a   
   consecutive period of 4.5 to 9 years.   
      
   The murder is considered a hate crime because Pratt was in a romantic   
   relationship with Johnson at the time of the murder, prosecutors said.   
      
   "This is an individual who was killed because he was gay and because the man   
   who killed him did not want anyone to find out that he was in a relationship   
   with him," Assistant District Attorney Cydney Pope said at a press conference   
   Monday, local outlet    
   WPVI reported.   
      
   “Make no mistake,” Pope said in the statement. “The murder of Naasire   
   Johnson was a hate crime. Kylen Pratt did not want anyone to know of his   
   romantic involvement with the victim.”   
      
   Authorities were able to solve the crime based on someone who provided the   
   anonymous tip, she said.   
      
   Investigators learned that in the early morning hours of Feb. 17, 2022,   
   Johnson took an Uber from his family’s West Philadelphia residence to   
   Pratt’s home on Oxford Street, prosecutors said in the statement.   
      
   “Pratt shot Johnson in the neck shortly after the victim’s arrival,” the   
   statement continued, further noting that he then transported Johnson’s body   
   to a remote trail in Fairmount Park and set the corpse on fire.   
      
   If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence   
   Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org. All calls are toll-free   
   and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.   
      
   https://people.com/penn-man-killed-romantic-partner-and-burned-h   
   s-body-to-cover-up-their-relationship-8721526   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)