Gunner Jay Lindberg (born March 1, 1975) is an American convicted murderer on

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in California. Lindberg, a Neo-Nazi, was convicted of the 1996 murder of 24-year-old Vietnamese American Thien Minh Ly in Tustin, California. Lindberg wanted to celebrate that evening's

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". Lindberg and an accomplice, 17-year-old Domenic Michael Christopher, encountered Ly, who was rollerblading around the tennis courts at Tustin High School. Lindberg and Christopher trapped Ly on the courts, beat him, kicked him, and then stabbed him many times. Prosecutors also charged Lindberg with a

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and

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. Before that, Lindberg served most of a five-year prison sentence for another first-degree assault after shooting an 11-year-old boy three times with a pellet gun in 1992. On August 29, 2008, the

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affirmed Lindberg's convictions and death sentence.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindberg, Gunner 1975 births Living people 20th-century American criminals American neo-Nazis convicted of murder American people convicted of hate crimes American people of German descent American people of Indian descent American prisoners sentenced to death People convicted of murder by California People convicted of racial hatred offences People from Orange County, California Prisoners sentenced to death by California Racially motivated violence against Asian Americans San Quentin State Prison inmates

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