Kenneth Morgan Stancil III. The number on his face tattoo, 88, signifies “Heil Hitler” — as H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. (Goldsboro Police Department)
A white supremacist skinhead shot and killed his gay former boss today in a third-floor print shop on the campus of a North Carolina community college, the local sheriff said. Kenneth Morgan Stancil III, 20, is on the loose after Ron Lane was gunned down at 8 a.m. in the library building of Wayne County Community College, sparking a campus-wide lockdown, Sheriff Larry Pierce told reporters at a press conference.
One shot was fired during the altercation. School officials believe Stancil, a former student who had been fired by Lane, used a back stairwell to get into the building. He has been charged with murder.
Here’s what you need to know:
He Described His Job as ‘Enforcer at White Power’
On his now-deleted Facebook page — you can see a incomplete cache of it here — Stancil referred to his job as “Enforcer at White Power.” His alias on the site is “WhiteKnight.” Among his likes are the band Angry Aryans, White Pride, Hitler Adolph and the National Socialist Movement.
One former friend described Stancil on Twitter as once being a “sweet, cute boy!” That friend told Heavy.com that she used to go the same church as Stancil.
A former high school friend of Stancil’s, Bobbi Maniscalco, told Heavy that Stancil would “mostly observe” their group of friends and didn’t talk much. She added that he was a troublemaker who smoked pot and would often cut class. The two were students together at Southern Wayne High School.
According to police in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Stancil is a former student at Wayne Community. Speaking to CNN, the college’s assistant operations manager described the suspect as a “bald white male, 5-foot-11, with a tattoo over his left eye and a goatee.” He was last seen wearing a blue jacket and light-colored pants. He was armed with a rifle, reports WRAL. He was not known to local police until the day of the shooting.
School spokesperson Tara Humphries told reporters that Stancil was previously a work study student at the school, where he was employed at the print shop under the supervision of shooting victim Ron Lane. At some point Lane fired Stancil, who is no longer enrolled at the school. In a Facebook message to WNCN, Stancill’s mother, Debbie, wrote about her son being fired saying “I have the letter that showed he was terminated without consent.” She also claimed that the victim, Lane, had “made inappropriate sexual advances toward [Stancil].” During the search for Stancill, police were seen entering the family’s trailer in Dudley, North Carolina. His green BMW was seen parked outside, but the suspect was nowhere to be found, reports Allen Etzler of the local News-Argus. An hour after arriving at the trailer, police were seen leaving the home with garbage bags.
The Victim: Ron Lane. (Facebook)
In addition to being an employee of the school, Ron “Dwight” Lane, of Seven Springs, North Carolina, attended the community college from 1989 to 1995, according to his Facebook page.He had worked at the school for 18 years. School officials have said that there will be an official service to remember him.
