A jury has convicted an Iowa man of first-degree murder in the killing of Michael Williams, a Black man whose body was found burning in a ditch last year.
Steven Vogel, 32, who is white, was also found guilty of abuse of a corpse in a case that Williams’ relatives see as a possible hate crime but authorities described as a relationship dispute that turned lethal.
“It gives peace to the Williams family and the Grinnell community,” he said, referring to the small town where Williams lived. And during a family meeting at the Grinnell Police Department with the assistant attorney general and other officials in October 2020, Terrell said, her family pushed authorities to pursue the case as a possible hate crime. But the officials said a first-degree murder conviction carried a greater maximum sentence, she recalled them saying."They kept making it like it was nothing," Terrell said."I see the point, but I think it takes away from history.
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