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Kansas Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Hate Crimes in Olathe Bar Shooting

By Kansas News Service
Published May 21, 2018 at 10:55 PM CDT
Adam Purinton, in a mug shot taken after he was arrested in February 2017. Purinton pleaded guilty to hate crimes on Monday. (Photo from Johnson County Sheriff's Office)
Adam Purinton, in a mug shot taken after he was arrested in February 2017. Purinton pleaded guilty to hate crimes on Monday. (Photo from Johnson County Sheriff's Office)

The Olathe man who shot and killed an Indian national and wounded two other men last year pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes today (MON).  As Dan Margolies reports for the Kansas News Service, the guilty pleas spare Adam Purinton a possible death sentence.

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