Louisiana man sentenced to 45 years for trying to kill and dismember gay men

Probability Seneca, 21, was sentenced on Wednesday to 45 years after making an attempt to homicide homosexual males he met on the relationship app Grindr. The court docket stated Seneca deliberate his hate crimes for a lot of months and deliberately focused homosexual males. 

In June 2020, Seneca used Grindr to suggest a gathering with a person he solicited on the app with the plan to homicide and dismember him, in keeping with a Justice Division information launch. Seneca grew to become obsessed along with his murder-fantasy maybe impressed by the infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the discharge stated; he deliberate to “eat and protect his victims’ our bodies,” simply as Dahmer had achieved.

Seneca drove the person he met on the app to an remoted home and took out a handgun, advised the person to placed on handcuffs after which tried to kill him, the Justice Division stated. 

Lafayette police responded to a name from Seneca on June 2020 and located a person, Holden White, 18, severely injured in a bath with strangulation marks on his neck and “wrists slit to the bone,” an unsealed affidavit stated.

The affidavit was filed by an FBI agent and was primarily based on data from Lafayette police and a dialog the agent had with Seneca. It stated Seneca advised police he had known as 911 after the assault “in a self-described effort to be put right into a psychological establishment.” Seneca had kidnapped two different males on June 19, the indictment stated.