LEX18: “The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs reported that on Monday, a Kentucky man was charged with federal hate crime and firearm offenses after he allegedly threatened a Palestinian American man with a loaded gun in March.
The office reported that the unsealed indictment revealed that Melvin Perry Litteral III reportedly “used force or the threat of force to intimidate and interfere with the victim-a Palestinian American man and practicing Muslim…”
As previously reported by LEX 18 Investigates, the victim said he was at a Lexington Chedder’s restaurant, when Litteral made Islamophobic comments to him, then allegedly pulled a gun on him.”