{"id":105588,"date":"2024-05-16T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/demonstrator-to-stand-trial-in-the-death-of-jewish-man-at-november-israel-hamas-war-related-protest\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T12:01:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:01:56","slug":"demonstrator-to-stand-trial-in-the-death-of-jewish-man-at-november-israel-hamas-war-related-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/demonstrator-to-stand-trial-in-the-death-of-jewish-man-at-november-israel-hamas-war-related-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstrator to stand trial in the death of Jewish man at November Israel-Hamas war-related protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-16\/protester-death_hpMain_20231107-160845_4x3.jpg\" alt><figcaption>A person places flowers at a makeshift memorial at the site of an altercation between 69-year-old Paul Kessler, who was Jewish, and pro-Palestinian protester on Nov. 7, 2023, in Thousand Oaks, Calif. (Mario Tama\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; A Ventura County judge ruled that a pro-Palestinian demonstrator will stand trial in the death of a Jewish man who was counter-protesting on a Thousand Oaks street in November.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish man, died from blunt-force head trauma following a confrontation with a counterprotester, amid simultaneous pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations last November, the Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s Office previously said. Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji is accused of striking Paul Kessler with a megaphone, causing him to fall and hit his head on the pavement.<\/p>\n<p>The Ventura County Medical Examiner ruled that Kessler died from blunt force trauma caused by the blow from the megaphone and the subsequent fall.<\/p>\n<p>Alnaji was charged in November with involuntary manslaughter, battery causing serious bodily injury and special allegations of personally inflicting great bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p>At his arraignment last fall, Alnaji pled not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>A Ventura County Superior Court judge made the decision that Alnaji would face trial after a recent two-day preliminary hearing that saw 18 witnesses testify.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are continuing to investigate. The Ventura County DA&#8217;s office said it has not found evidence to support a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>Alnaji was released on $50,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted on all charges, he faces a maximum of four years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Alnaji couldn&#8217;t immediately be reached for comment by ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person places flowers at a makeshift memorial at the site of an altercation between 69-year-old Paul Kessler, who was Jewish, and pro-Palestinian protester on Nov. 7, 2023, in Thousand Oaks, Calif. (Mario Tama\/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) &#8212; A Ventura County judge ruled that a pro-Palestinian demonstrator will stand trial<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/demonstrator-to-stand-trial-in-the-death-of-jewish-man-at-november-israel-hamas-war-related-protest\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}