A California teenager facing trial in the 1993 bombing of two black students' rooms used racial epithets when boasting of the crime, FBI documents allege.
Prosecutors charge that then 16-year-old Robert Allen Little Jr. bragged that he "blew up the niggers" after a pipe-bomb attack on the Dixie College dorm rooms of Ronald Kemp and Gary Brown, who escaped injury.Little was "very proud and arrogant about what he had just done," according to the roommate quoted by FBI Agent Robert Gallacher in his investigative report.
Prosecutors also have asked the court's permission to allow testimony about another firebombing of a black residence allegedly involving Little eight months before the incident in St. George.
As a 15-year-old in California City, Calif., Little and a friend tossed Molotov cocktails on the property of a black family because Little's friend suspected a black youth had stolen his bicycle, a police report states.
The late-night attack caused a fire and the family fled. There were tense moments when a bedroom window jammed, delaying the escape of a young child, police records show.
Little admitted to police he was involved, but said he only threw his bottle bomb on the victims' lawn.
"Robert made several statements about hating blacks and that they deserve what they get," a California City Police report reads. "Robert (said) he had checked out a book about the KKK from the library."
Little's attorney, Ben Knowlton, opposes admission of the California City attack. He contends it was a dispute over a stolen bicycle and the fact the home was occupied by blacks was "coincidence."
Little was prosecuted in juvenile court in California and placed in a youth detention facility. Authorities say he fled, taking up residence in St. George, where he shaved his head and took on an alias.