BROCKTON, Massachusetts – A white man accused of killing two people and raping a third during a January crime spree against nonwhites showed up in court with a recently carved swastika on his forehead.
Twenty-two-year-old Keith Luke pleaded not guilty to murder and rape charges in Brockton Superior Court in Massachusetts on Wednesday. He was ordered held without bail.
The victims were all of Cape Verdean descent. Luke did not have a swastika on his head at the time of his arrest and apparently carved the symbol while in custody.
Luke's attorney asked that his client be sent to a psychiatric hospital, but a judge refused.
Luke allegedly told authorities he was fighting the white race's extinction and had stockpiled ammunition to kill blacks, Hispanics and Jews.
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