Man Who Killed 84-Year-Old for Looking At Him Escapes Murder Conviction

<![CDATA[I wrote about this case years ago when it happened. A 19-year-old named Antoine Watson charged and tackled an 84-year-old man named Vicha Ratanapakdee who died of his injures two days later. The attack, which happened in January 2021, was caught on video but for years afterwards there was no explanation for why this had happened. For reasons that are unclear, It took five years to put Antoine Watson on trial. And sadly his trial just ended with an acquittal on the murder charge.]]>