Minnie Ray Sebolt from a photo taken August, 2005. Photo provided by Hartburg Baptist Church.
Deborah Ray Holst sighs in relief Tuesday after looking to the sky and saying, "Mom you are avenged and we love you," shortly after Bartholomew Granger was found guilty on capital murder charges from the shooting death of Holst's mother Minnie Ray Sebolt. The trial stems from the 2012 Jefferson County Courthouse Shooting. "This is the best feeling I've had in over a year and a half," she said, smiling, to reporters. Photo taken Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Photo: Guiseppe Barranco, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER/The Beaumont Enterprise
“Bartholomew Granger enters the Galveston County courtroom shortly before closing arguments on Tuesday. After the arguments the jury was excused to deliberate on capital charges for the shooting death of Minnie Ray Sebolt. Guiseppe Barranco/The Enteprise”
Posted by Nicholas Stix
When I read the subject line, I assumed that the headline was from my reader-researcher, seeing as the MSM typically seek to make black, and above all, black-on-white crime as uninteresting as possible. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the headline was actually from the Houston Chronicle.
As the defendant Bartholomew Granger, 42, explained, in his own inimitable way, this was all a big misunderstanding and an accidental murder. It seems that he was trying to murder his daughter, who had charged him with having raped her.
Granger confessed on the stand to having shot and run over his daughter, Samantha Jackson on March 14, 2012. The same day he accidentally shot and killed Mrs. Minnie Ray Sebolt, 79, in the doorway of the Galveston County Criminal District Court, while aiming at his ex-girlfriend, Claudia Jackson, who was also a witness against him that day.
For some reason, Granger considered murdering his daughter a matter of honor, but refused to admit to having murdered Mrs. Sebolt. He also called the people in court “demons,” and “grinned and winked at prosecutors Pat Knauth and Ed Shettle.”
I’m seeing an awful lot of black murderers winking in court, and telling other blacks, “I love you” these days. Alternately, we see guilty-as-hell black murderers shaking their heads at guilty verdicts (Curtis Vance, who raped and murdered Anne Pressly, and raped at least one other white woman), and announcing that prosecutors are “murder[ing] this innocent black man” (John Allen Muhammad, who murdered at least a dozen people).
The reader-researcher who sent me this story observed,
Blacks and violence.
Like whores and whorehouses.
By Sarah Moore
May 1, 2013 | Updated: May 1, 2013 10:47 a.m.
Houston Chronicle
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As defense attorneys asked a Galveston judge to revisit the competency of Bartholomew Granger, the courthouse shooter screamed in court: "Where's the American justice for me!"
Granger was convicted Tuesday of capital murder in the shooting spree that killed 79-year-old Minnie Ray Sebolt.
Sentencing began today but was postponed just before 11 a.m. following a continued series of outbursts by Granger. The hearing is expected to resume Thursday after a "legal issue" is settled.
"The bitch got what she deserved," he said during his Wednesday morning outburst, speaking of his daughter. "She's the one who should be dead. Not the old lady, her!"
Also shouted by the defendant was: "Give me liberty or give me (expletive) death. I want it. I'd rather be dead than be in you mother (expletive) custody. You are demons."
Following Tuesday's conviction, a jury will decide whether the 42-year-old Houston man should be put to death for gunning down 79-year-old Sebolt in the commission of another crime, witness retaliation.
Granger was shooting at his ex-girlfriend, Claudia Jackson, who was a witness in his aggravated sexual assault trial in Criminal District Court, when he gunned down Sebolt in the courthouse doorway on March 14, 2012.
Granger testified he shot and ran over his daughter, Samantha Jackson, the complaining witness in the trial that day, though he denied shooting Sebolt or Claudia Jackson.
The nine-woman, three-man Galveston County jury took less than two hours to convict Granger of capital murder.
Granger did not outwardly react when the guilty verdict was read, but later, as bailiffs escorted him from the courtroom, he grinned and winked at prosecutors Pat Knauth and Ed Shettle.
Deborah Holst, Sebolt's daughter, smiled broadly just after the verdict was read, then sat quietly until the court recessed.
"Tremendous," she said when asked how she felt. Then she turned to Shettle and hugged him.
Outside the courthouse, she looked up at the sky.
"Mom, you're avenged - and we love you," she said.
[With all due respect, she will be avenged when and if Granger is executed.]
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