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Man charged in hit-and-run of Arab neighbor allegedly went on to kill her son bit.ly/2bysdt0 pic.twitter.com/DlNkwWnO6Z
Khalid Jabara knew that he had reason to fear his next-door neighbor.
Jabara's family, who immigrated to the United States from Lebanon, felt that their neighbor, Stanley Vernon Majors, had targeted them for years with ethnic slurs and frivolous calls to the police. The tension peaked last September in a violent hit-and-run attack on matriarch Haifa Jabara outside the family’s Tulsa, Oklahoma home, for which Majors was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, among other charges.
So when Khalid Jabara learned on Friday evening that Majors had come into possession of a gun, he called the police to report his concerns.
Officers came to Jabara’s East Avenue residence, surveyed the scene, and left, unable to make contact with Majors. Eight minutes later, police said Majors repeatedly shot Jabara on his front porch while he collected the mail.
Officers who arrived at the scene soon found a barefoot, seemingly intoxicated Majors hiding behind a tree outside the nearby Hardesty Library, Tulsa Police Sgt. Dave Walker told TPM. They arrested Majors on probable cause, and on Saturday booked him on suspicion of murder.
“The question now is not really the who or how but the why,” Walker said of Jabara's killing, which came 10 weeks after Majors was released on bail in the pending hit-and-run case.
On Friday night, Jabara was at home with his disabled father, Walker said. Jabara reportedly learned from a neighbor that Majors had acquired a firearm, and called police around 5:02 p.m. local time after hearing knocking on the window. Officers arrived at the Jabara’s home at 6:30 p.m., spoke with him, and then went next door to try to speak with Majors (Walker attributed the delay between Jabara's call and officers' arrival to priority considerations).
Officers left the scene at around 6:40 p.m., having no “actionable” reason to forcibly enter Majors’ home after nobody came to the door, Walker said.
Jabara phoned his mother and stepped outside onto the porch to collect the mail. That's when Majors allegedly opened fire, fatally wounding the 37-year-old.
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