Pennsylvania prosecutor say a high gymnasium freshman beat his 18-year-old brother to death with a claw hammer because he believed his brother was gay.

Pennsylvania prosecutor say a high gymnasium freshman beat his 18-year-old brother to death with a claw hammer because he believed his brother was gay. Ian Bishop, 14 was also turn upside down because his brother, Adam, supported their parents' decision not to hindrance Ian see his girlfriend, according to testimony in a preliminary hearing June 4 It was the first time a motive was mentioned at authorities since Adam's death in April.

"There's clear evidence of premeditation here," said Westmoreland shire district attorney John Peck. "He hated his brother because he deliberation he was homosexual, and he hated his parents because they kept him from [his girlfriend]."

State horseman Kirk D. Nolan testified that Bishop's alleged accomplice, 15-year-old plunder Laskowski, told him he heard a thump while at the Bishop place of abode and saw Adam lying onward the floor of the computer latitude Laskowski said he saw Ian repeatedly strike Adam onward the head with the hammer. Nolan said Laskowski admitted helping Ian place Adam in a bathtub and that he watched Ian deflect on the water. An autopsy showed Adam Bishop had bear up undered a minimum of 18 blossoms to the head.

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