Stanley Vernon Majors was charged with first-degree murder for opening fire on 37-year oid Khalid Jabara as he retrieved the mail on the front porch of his family’s home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to news reports, and local police.
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Thirty minutes later, Jabara was fatally shot on his front porch, and the police arrived back on the scene. Back in March 2015, according to police reports, Majors told Haifa, “F*** you and I want to kill you”, in violation of a court-ordained protective order. He was found a short time later hiding behind a tree.
Their ugly history began in August 2013 when Haifa Jabara accused Majors of “knocking at windows late at nite, harassing me with ugly sex words over the phone” in her petition for a restraining order.
Majors was arrested, charged with aggravated assault, and jailed for several months awaiting trial.
Tulsa County DA Steve Kunzweiler: “You can’t lock up everybody, and you can’t let everybody out, so there’s got to be this balance”.
Khalid Jabara, who ran the family catering business with his mother, had learned on Friday that Majors was armed with a gun. Yet in May, not even one year after he ran over our mother and despite our repeated protests, he was released from jail with no conditions on his bond-no ankle monitor, no drug/alcohol testing, nothing.
“The Constitution allows for people to bond out”, Walker told the Post of the failures that led to Jabara’s death.
Jabara Williams also pointed out that Majors was allegedly able to kill her brother because he was awaiting trial for hitting her mother with a auto.
Khalid Jabara’s parents immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s from Lebanon.
“I’ll miss his jokes (I stole all my jokes from him!)”, she said, “his love for all things electronic, his love for my mom and dad, Rami, and this tenderness toward his nieces”.
Since the beginning of 2015, police have responded to over 50 calls to Majors’ residence, but Walker said on Monday that he couldn’t confirm what they were about or in reference to.
Khalid Jabara was killed at his home Friday, according to the Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2byi02N ).
Eight minutes later, police received another call: Jabara had been shot.
‘He repeatedly attacked our ethnicity and perceived religion, making racist comments, ‘ Victoria Jabara Williams wrote on Facebook. He often called us “dirty Arabs”, “filthy Lebanese”, “Aye-rabs”, and “Mooslems”-a fact highlighted by the Tulsa Police Department who also heard these comments from the suspect”.
“This suspect had a history of bigotry against our family”, the statement says. “He made xenophobic comments about many in our community – ‘filthy Mexican” and the ‘n” word were all part of his hateful approach to anyone from a different background”.
“Today, in our pain, we are also keenly aware that this is not just another murder to be added to crime statistics”.
The statement accused Tulsa authorities of not doing enough to address the threat from a man who her family “lived in fear of” for years, calling him “a known danger”. Our brother’s death could have been prevented.
He also was accused of hitting Mr Jabara’s mother with his auto previous year.
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“Majors went on to repeat this with variations including that he “hit her” and ‘I left because I was scared, ‘” the officer wrote in the report. However, eight months later, for reasons that aren’t clear, a judge set bail, which Majors posted, and on May 25, he returned to his home, right next door the the family he had allegedly been terrorizing for years. This is troubling at any time, but profoundly disturbing given the current climate of our country and the increase nationally in cases of hate crimes. He was a kind spirit, loving brother, uncle and son. He cared for our entire family, our friends and people he didn’t even know. “All of that has been taken away from us by this hateful man and a system that failed to protect our community”.
