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Jurors convict gunman in 1980 racial slayings
A Buffalo jury convicted Joseph G. Christopher, 31, of three counts of first degree manslaughter for the 1980 killings of two black men and a black teenager. He rejected insanity claims amid testimony he believed blacks were the devil and heard voices urging him to kill. Sentencing set for Jan. 20 with possible 25 years per count.
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