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Last update - 21:52 09/05/2009
'It's okay to kill Jews,' says suspected killer's journal
By The Associated Press
Tags: Israel news, Connecticut 

Connecticut man Stephen Morgan, suspected of killing a Jewish student at Wesleyan University, allegedly wrote in his journal that it is "okay to kill Jews," it emerged Saturday.

James Morgan, a retired venture capitalist who lives in Marblehead, told police that his son left the house with all his belongings on Tuesday, telling him he had decided to move to Newport, Rhode Island.

Morgan, whom his father described as a loner, allegedly wrote in a journal about "all the beautiful and smart" people at Wesleyan, a liberal arts university with 3,000 students. Police found the journal in the suspect's car.
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"I think it okay to kill Jews and go on a killing spree at this school," he allegedly wrote.

The missive prompted a lockdown of the university while Morgan was on the run, as well as the closing of the city?s only synagogue.

In Marblehead, police checked Morgan?s bedroom, where they said they found a box full of ammunition and an empty handgun holster.

Morgan, 29, was arrested Thursday night after he saw his photo in a newspaper and asked a convenience store clerk to call the police.

Officers found him standing outside the store, 10 miles from the Middletown, Connecticut bookstore where Johanna Justin-Jinich was gunned down by a man wearing a wig.

Justin-Jinich, 21, of Timnath, Colorado, came from a Jewish family, and her grandmother was a Holocaust survivor.

Morgan shared a summer class at New York University with Justin-Jinich in 2007. She filed a harassment complaint against him for repeated unwanted phone calls and insulting e-mails, but she decided not to press charges.

Morgan was arraigned Friday in Middletown Superior Court. A judge increased his bond from $10 million to $15 million.

His parents and two sisters, who had appealed to him to turn himself in, attended the brief hearing.

Morgan, who spent four years in the Navy before being discharged in 2003, was scruffy and unkempt. One sister wept as he was escorted from the courtroom in shackles by judicial marshals.

"I know the Morgans very well. They're wonderful people and so is Stephen," said Penny Wigglesworth, who lives in the same upper-middle-class neighborhood as Morgan's parents. "They're so kind. They're wonderful neighbors. We brought up our kids together."

Wigglesworth said she didn't know Stephen Morgan as well, partly because he wasn't the same age as her children. But she called him pleasant and polite. She remembered him being "so cute" when he played with his nieces and nephews in the neighborhood of stately brick houses. "I still can't believe it," Wigglesworth said.

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      2.   Sounds like the IDF`s Chief Rabbi in reference to Gentiles 21:57  |  peacelover 09/05/09
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