Jury convicts Wisconsin inmate accused of killing cellmate for being Black and gay
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man doing time for trying to kill his mother was convicted Wednesday of strangling his cellmate to death.
A jury found Jackson Vogel, 25, guilty of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the death of 19-year-old Micah Laureano at the Green Bay Correctional Institution last year, WLUK-TV reported. Vogel told investigators he killed Laureano because Laureano was Black and gay.
Vogel’s attorneys, public defenders Ann Larson and Luke Harrison, didn’t immediately return voicemail messages seeking comment. He faces a mandatory life sentence when he is sentenced on June 27.