A Kansas City man was sentenced Thursday to about 22 years in federal prison for committing a hate crime that shot and injured a teenager because of the victim’s sexual orientation, prosecutors said.
Malachi Robinson, 25, shot 16-year-old Malachi Robinson eight times on May 29, 2019, pleading guilty in July to violating the Federal Hate Crimes Act. He was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison on Thursday without parole.
The boy survived after spending two weeks in the hospital, but had undergone several surgeries and physical therapy and still had bullets in his body, prosecutors said.
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According to court documents, the two met by chance and were walking near Swope Park when Robinson suggested they go to a wooded area to have sex. However, Robinson wrote to another girlfriend that he “might shoot this boy” because of his sexual orientation.
When the teenager changed his mind and tried to leave, prosecutors said Robinson shot him eight times. Before he was arrested, Robinson told several people that he shot his victims because of their sexual orientation, according to court documents.
