Tulsa courts and police have thrown up their hands and given up trying to protect an Arab-American family who has been constantly harassed by a bigoted neighbor. Despite a number of complaints and two protective orders, one member of the family was fatally shot on Friday. Khalid Jabara, 37, was not the first member of his family to suffer from the violence of the racist neighbor, Stanley Majors.

Victoria Jabara Williams, the victim’s sister, took to Twitter to share the story about her family’s experience dealing with racist and anti-Muslim harassment over the last few years. Majors started out by calling the family “dirty Arabs” and using other racial slurs like “Mooslems” and “filthy Lebanese.” According to Williams, this was not a lone incident, and Majors spoke this way to other neighbors, as noted by police in complaint documents.

That was just the beginning. Soon, Majors turned violent.

Majors tried to kill Khalid’s mother by running her over with his car, resulting in a broken shoulder, collapsed lung, broken ankle, fractured ribs, and head trauma. The courts, however, decided to release Majors to await trial at home after he spent eight months in jail. They permitted him to return home, right next door to the woman he tried to murder. According to Williams:

‘My family lived in fear of this man and his hatred for years. Yet in May, not even one year after he ran over our mother and despite our repeated protests, he was released from jail with no conditions on his bond — no ankle monitor, no drug/alcohol testing, nothing.’

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Williams also explained that the family had two protective orders against the neighbor. Khalid had called the police on Friday to report that he thought Majors had a gun, and when the police came to talk to the family, they told them there was nothing they could do and left.

A few minutes after the police left, Majors confronted Khalid Jabara on his front porch and shot him dead.

According to Williams, her brother would still be alive if Majors’ attack on her mother had been treated as a hate crime:

‘Our brother’s death could have been prevented. This man was a known danger. He intentionally tried to kill our mother less than one year ago when he ran her over with his car. Based on his racist comments towards us, he should have been charged with a hate crime then. He should not have been released without monitoring. Yet he was released and put back next door to us, the family he assaulted just months before. This is troubling at any time, but profoundly disturbing given the current climate of our country and the increase nationally in cases of hate crimes.’

According to family the killer of Khalid Jabara referred to them as "Dirty Arabs."https://t.co/YXdD6wpNtS pic.twitter.com/nqGectpS3w — Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) August 15, 2016

According to Tulsa, Oklahoma television station News on 6, police arrested Majors, 61, and he is being held without bond on a first-degree murder charge.

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