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Phoenix man gets 27 years in neighbor’s death

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July 5, 2011

A jury convicted Gary Thomas Kelley for the murder of his neighbor Juan Varela. Investigators said Kelley, who was arrested immediately after the shooting, repeated a racial slur several times and told Varela to “go back to Mexico” or he would die.
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  1. MrsCaptJack said,

    on July 9th, 2011 at 5:44 pm

    Well, now Gary Kelly can go to prision and spend the rest of his life with his white power brothers. I hope he got what he wanted out of it.

  2. MAXIMILLIAN GUTIERREZ said,

    on July 12th, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    I HOPE that old fart gets alot more than that…He was CONVICTED-that’s ‘Cheap’ considering he took the Life of a Man with No apparent Reason other than ‘HATE’!!!

  3. MrsCaptJack said,

    on July 15th, 2011 at 12:45 am

    That length of a sentence for a man his age is a life sentence.

  4. manny said,

    on July 16th, 2011 at 12:52 am

    Gary, enjoy prison I am sure you will make someone happy there.

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