DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. ― Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a gay community college worker as a hate crime, while the man charged in the killing told a judge Tuesday there was “one less child molester” after the slaying of his former supervisor.
Nothing in police records substantiated the allegations Kenneth Morgan Stancil III made at his bond hearing, and a judge warned him he had the right to remain silent.
Stancil, a former student at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, North Carolina, is accused of killing Ron Lane, his former work-study supervisor at the school.
Police said Lane, 44, was gunned down Monday morning soon after he reported for work. Lane had dismissed Stancil from the print shop’s work-study program in March because he had too many absences.
Police have not released a motive in the shooting and said the men’s relationship was purely one of supervisor and student.
Calls to Stancil’s home were not returned and family members declined comment to an Associated Press reporter.
Lane’s boss said Lane was gay, but police refused to say why a hate crime was being investigated.
