South Carolina Man Gets 9 Years for Racially Motivated Shooting of Black Neighbor
The first man charged under South Carolina’s county hate crime law received 9 years in federal prison after admitting he targeted a Black neighbor.
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'It's not a safe home no more': Black man speaks out after South Carolina neighbor sentenced to prison for shooting at him
Jonathan Felkel will spend nine years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal hate crime related to shooting at his Black neighbor.
"I was a target": Man gets 9 years for shooting at Black neighbor in hate crime
A Midlands man who admitted he targeted a Black neighbor because of his race was sentenced Thursday to nine years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a f
SC man to spend 9 years in prison for shooting at Black neighbor • SC Daily Gazette
Jarvis McKenzie and his attorney, Tyler Bailey, speak to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Columbia, S.C., on Thursday, July 16, 2026. (Photo by Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette)COLUMBIA — A white Columbia man will spend nine years in prison for shooting a gun in the air to frighten a Black man solely because of his race, a judge decided Thursday. Jonathan Felkel pleaded guilty in March to a federal civil rights charge involving housing d…
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