LR man gets 35 years in ’07 killing

Jury reduces charge to 2nd-degree murder after hearing different accounts

By John Lynch (Contact)

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A Pulaski County jury Wednesday heard vastly different accounts of the slaying of Henry Onukwube: Prosecutors described the 24-year-old Onukwube’s death at Pettaway Park as the “execution” of a fleeing, unarmed man, while Naeem Hassan Rasul, 29, said he fired only in self-defense because he was facing an unrelenting tormentor who was the first to pull a weapon.

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This article was published Friday, September 26, 2008.

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