US EditionJury convicts Wisconsin inmate accused of killing cellmate for being Black and gay
- A Brown County jury convicted 25-year-old Jackson Vogel of first-degree intentional homicide for the August 27, 2024 strangulation of his cellmate, 19-year-old Micah Laureano, at the Wisconsin prison where they were both incarcerated.
- Vogel, already serving a 20-year sentence for attempting to kill his mother, admitted killing Laureano because he was Black and gay, which prosecutors classified as a hate crime motive.
- Laureano, 19, was serving a three-year sentence for battery and related crimes and was found hanging in the cell he shared with Vogel, alongside cut orange cloth strips and a 'Kill all humans!' note discovered by investigators.
- The jury deliberated just over 20 minutes after less than two days of testimony, with prosecutor Caleb Saunders quoting Vogel saying, 'I wanted to kill him the first day I met him,' supporting the intentional and biased nature of the killing.
- Vogel faces a mandatory life sentence, scheduled for sentencing on June 27, while Laureano's mother filed a federal lawsuit alleging prison officials failed to protect him from Vogel and violated his civil rights.
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Jury convicts Wisconsin inmate accused of killing cellmate for being Black and gay
A Wisconsin inmate accused of killing his cellmate for being Black and gay has been convicted. WLUK-TV reports that a jury found 25-year-old Jackson Vogel guilty of first-degree intentional homicide Wednesday in connection with the death of Micah Laureano at the Green Bay Correctional Institution in
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