White Supremacist Stands Trial For Murdering Biracial Child [View All]

WILKES-BARRE — The swastika tattooed to Alan Leitzel Jr.’s chest remained hidden Tuesday, beneath the gray jacket and white button-down shirt he wore during the second day of his “degree of guilt” trial for the killing of his girlfriend’s biracial son.

Leitzel boasted about the tattoo as two state police officers drove him to a preliminary hearing last April in Hazle Township, four months after the boy, 3-month-old Xavier Simmons, died from blunt force trauma to the head, state police Corporal Corey Wetzel said.

Leitzel told Wetzel he had the swastika — a symbol of hate propagated by Nazis and white supremacists — branded to his body while incarcerated at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, using a sharpened staple as a needle and hair-care products heated to produce a dark dye.

Earlier in the ride, Leitzel noticed a black motorist driving near the intersection of Wilkes-Barre Boulevard and Coal Street, Wetzel said. He scowled at the driver, cursed and invoked a historically pejorative term for blacks.

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