PHOENIX (Reuters) - A newly released ex-convict who stabbed a teenager to death at an Arizona convenience store on Independence Day, later telling police he had felt threatened by the boy's rap music, was charged with first-degree murder on Tuesday.
The stabbing of 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria recalled the killing three years earlier of a black Florida teenager who was shot by white man during an argument over his music. Al-Amin was described by the New York Times as multiracial.
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