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Posted: Monday, 18 September 2006 1:52PM
Homeless Man Receives Max Sentence for Bias Murder
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A homeless man who said he knifed a woman to death in a mall parking garage because she was white was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in prison.
State Supreme Court Justice Lester Adler told the defendant, Phillip Grant, ``You, Mr. Grant, represent the face of evil.''
Grant seemed unmoved as the sentence was imposed. As he was led out of the courtroom, one of the victim's sons shouted, ``Disgusting animal!''
Grant, 44, who is black, was convicted in July of murder as a hate crime in the killing of Concetta Russo-Carriero, 56, a legal secretary who was stabbed twice in the heart in June 2005 in the parking garage of the Galleria mall in downtown White Plains.
Captured just minutes later, Grant quickly admitted his guilt, led police to a bloody knife and sat for a videotaped confession in which he ranted about a race war, saying of his victim, ``As long as she had blond hair and blue eyes, she had to die.''
He added that if he'd had a gun, ``There'd be a lot of dead white people on the streets of White Plains.''
The case spurred calls for a civil commitment law that could keep violent sex offenders off the streets even after their prison time is served.
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