The Wichita Massacre

In the snowy winter of 2000, the city of Wichita was frightened and shocked by the horrible crimes spree of 20 year old Jonathan Carr and his brother 22 year old Reginald Carr. That December the Carr brothers went on a crime rampage starting with the kidnapping and robbery of a 23 year old Wichita man. A few days later the brothers shot a 55 year old female outside of her home, and she died several days later. This was only the beginning of the Carr brother’s massacre.
On December 15, 2000, the Carr brothers invaded a home in a wealthier part of Wichita were they took captive five young adults, three men and two women in their 20’s. The Carr brothers ransacked the house for valuables while they held the victims at gun point. They then raped them and forced them to perform oral sex and other sexual acts to them and on each other. After all of the sexual humiliation, they drove the naked hostages to an ATM and forced them all to empty their bank accounts. Then finally they drove the victims to a deserted soccer field and shot them in the back of the head, execution style. Their last attempt to make sure there were no survivors; they drove the truck over the bodies before fleeing into the night. They then drove back to the residence where they had taken the hostages and took anything of value. They all so killed the victims’ dog.
After all of the torture, humiliation, and grief one of the female victims survived. She played until the Carr brothers drove away, and freezing cold and naked she ran more than a mile for help. After finding help she told the story of what had happened to her and her friend, before being taken by the paramedics. It turns out that the plastic hair piece the victim was wearing deflected the bullet from entering her skull, therefore saving her life.
By morning the Carr brothers were apprehended at the home of Reginald Carr and his girlfriend. A witness spotted the stolen truck, seeing a black male unloading a tv from it in front of his apartment complex. Jonathan Carr was picked up later that day. The men were tried together and both sentenced to the death penalty, which was appealed and later revoked giving them a sentence of life in prison.
There was a lot of controversy saying that this was a racial hate crime against whites. However, the Carr brothers were not charged of hate crimes, prosecutors found the motive to be robbery.