TUSAL MAN KILLED BY NEIGHBOUR WHO CALLS HIM DIRTY ARAB

For years, the Jabara family says, their Tulsa neighbor terrorized them.
He called them names -- "dirty Arabs," "filthy Lebanese," they said. He hurled racial epithets at those who came to work on their lawns, they alleged. He ran Haifa Jabara over with his car and went to court for it. 

 And it all came to a head last week when the man, Stanley Vernon Majors, walked up to the front steps of the family home and shot and killed Khalid Jabara, police said. "The frustration that we continue to see anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, xenophobic rhetoric and hate speech has unfortunately led up to a tragedy like this," said the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Khalid Jabara's parents immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s from Lebanon. They settled in Tulsa and raised three children. 

One brother became a lawyer, the sister works in marketing, and Khalid Jabara ran the family catering business with his mother. "He was hilarious, quirky, very intelligent, and really would give all of himself for anyone he loved," his brother wrote in a Facebook post. The Jabara family moved into their current home 12 years ago. 

A few years later, Stanley Majors moved into the house next door. The harassment and intimidation began almost immediately, they say. "He'd call us names all the time. 'You dirty Arabs, get out of here,'" the mother, Haifa Jabara, told CNN. "I had a guy who mowed our lawn, he's black. He'd scream, 'You N-word, get out of here." Neighbors lodged several complaints with police against Majors over his behavior. And in 2013, the family filed a protective order, which forbade Majors from having any contact with the Jabaras. It didn't make a difference. "Every time I came outside at night, he'd scream and yell at me. Scared me to death," Jabara said.