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Men Accused Of Racially Motivated Killing

By Frank Morris

Kansas City, MO – Nineteen-year-old Gary Eye and 20-year-old Steven Sandstrom are accused of killing William McCay last March because he was black. The two metro men could face the death penalty for what prosecutors say was a murder motivated by race.

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