Mississippi Father-Son Found Guilty After They Admitted to Shooting at Black Teens on ATVs
Mississippi Father-Son Found Guilty After They Admitted to Shooting at Black Teens on ATVs, Both Men Now Face More Than 20 Years In Prison
A jury has found a father-son duo guilty of several offenses, including felony malicious mischief with a hate crime enhancement. The incident in connection with a Sept. 2020 incident in which Wade Twiner and his son Lane Twiner ran after and shot Black teens riding ATVs near the men’s property. On Aug. 25, after a three-day trial, a jury found Wade and Lane guilty of two counts of simple assault and felony malicious mischief according to WLBT. Both men were found guilty of a hate crime enhancement, which has the potential to double their possible to sentences to 20 years apiece.
Police said Wade and Lane admitted to shooting at the teens on Sunday, Sept. 27, when Yazoo County deputies responding to a call about the pursuit stopped the ATVs and the Twiners’ pickup truck. The men told authorities they were upset with joyriders operating their four-wheelers on the dirt road near their property; they owned land on both sides of the dirt path. But the boys are identified as Steven Gibbs and Deveon Luckett, maintained that they were not trespassing on private land.
The state of Mississippi bans ATV riding on public roads but, the law is seldom enforced. re
Initially the two men accused the boys of riding and alleged they were just attempting to stop them and figure out who they were. However, law enforcement said instead the father and son duo chased the teens in their pickup truck, fired several gunshots at them, and even attempted to run them off the road. At one point, they even rammed their vehicle into the back of one teen’s ATV. Both teens survived the ordeal unharmed.
On March 8 the Twiners were indicted by a grand jury on multiple counts, including the hate crime charge, stemming from the incident.
“Not only did they shoot at him, they also ran into the back of his four-wheeler, and that could also have been murder right then and there,” the mother of the victims told WLBT not long after the incident.
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