...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....group pleaded guilty Monday to fatally shooting his two Florida roommates in 2017, abruptly avoiding the start of a murder trial in which he had planned to use the insanity defense, according to court records.
Devon Arthurs, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and will serve a 45-year prison sentence. The plea deal with prosecutors means Arthur will not face a possible life sentence.
"This defendant committed a cold and calculated crime and for that he will spend the majority of his life in prison," said State Attorney Suzy Lopez in a statement. "The victims’ families are satisfied with this outcome which allows them to avoid a painful trial while knowing the defendant will have to dwell upon the pain he has caused for the next several decades behind bars."
Arthurs admitted killing the roommates, Andrew Oneschuk, 18, and 22-year-old Jeremy Himmelman, nearly 6 years ago at the Tampa apartment they shared. Arthurs told police after his arrest that all three had been part of a small, mostly online neo-Nazi group called the Atomwaffen Division
... in 2020 the group collapsed, the remnant renaming itself as the National Socialist Order while keeping to their self-imposed mission of driving civilizational collapse. Founder Brandon Russell is a convicted felon who recently got himself and his girlfriend sent up for even longer after including their BFF FBI informant in their inter-prison online discussion of their next fiendish plot — not the sharpest knife in the block, that one...
and that he shot the pair with an assault-style rifle because they ridiculed his conversion to Islam.Related:
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Atomwaffen Division: 2022-02-19 Australia to List Hamas and U.S. Far-Right Group as Terrorists
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