Miscegenation Can Be Deadly

On Wednesday in Louisiana, the FBI killed James David Hawley in a shootout.

James David Hawley

On Thanksgiving, Hawley had killed 69-year old Norma Matko in her home after raping and torturing her.

Norma Matko

But Norma Matko wasn’t Hawley’s primary target: He was after her daughter, his ex-girlfriend, Thoue Nichole Bronowski. He kidnapped her after he killed her mother. Luckily, the FBI got to Hawley before Miss Bronowski could be seriously harmed.

Thoue Nichole Bronowski

On November 18, Marcus Tate-Clay killed his girlfriend Marjorie Tate and then killed himself.

Marjorie Tate

Every news story about the murder-suicide included a photo of Marjorie, but there were no photos of Marcus. I could verify his race only through his obituary.

Marcus Tate-Clay

In late 2019, Zak Bennett-Eko threw his 11-month-old son off a bridge.

Zak Bennett-Eko

Zak Bennett-Eko’s wife, Emma Blood.

Around the same time, in New York City, Yonathan Tedla decapitated his spouse, Jennifer Schlecht, before slitting their child’s throat and killing himself.

Yonathan Tedla (right), Jennifer Schlecht (left), and their five-year-old daughter, Abaynesh. All dead now.

These are some of the more recent cases of interracial relationships that went wrong. There are others:

• April, 2019: Jerry Brown (black) broke into the apartment his ex-girlfriend Angela Valle (Hispanic) and her room mate, Savannah Rivera (white). Brown killed Rivera with an ax, nearly decapitating her, and left Miss Valle with “with devastating slashes to the throat, chest, and back of the head.”
• January, 2019: A’kym Henderson (black), boyfriend to Jaimie Howard (white) beat their one-year-old son to death.
• October, 2018: Santrez Traylor (black) beat his white girlfriend, Amanda Petrowski — and mother to his two children — with a brick before running her over with his car and killing her.
• October, 2018: Lauren McCluskey (white) broke up with her boyfriend, Melvin Rowland (black), after learning he was a registered sex offender. Mr. Rowland shot and killed her two weeks later.

We are not aware of similar cases of white men killing their non-white romantic partners.