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Marcelo Lucero, 38, who moved to Patchogue 15 years ago, was fatally attacked by seven students, all 17 and 16 years old from the Patchogue-Medford High School, according to Suffolk police. They were charged with felony gang assault. One of them, Jeffrey Conroy, also was charged with manslaughter as a hate crime for allegedly stabbing Lucero in the chest. In front of a Central Islip courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Nancy Clifford said the group plotted late Saturday to target a Hispanic stranger in a racially motivated attack.
Marcelo Lucero, 38, who moved to Patchogue 15 years ago, was fatally attacked by seven students, all 17 and 16 years old from the Patchogue-Medford High School, according to Suffolk police. They were charged with felony gang assault. One of them, Jeffrey Conroy, also was charged with manslaughter as a hate crime for allegedly stabbing Lucero in the chest. In front of a Central Islip courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Nancy Clifford said the group plotted late Saturday to target a Hispanic stranger in a racially motivated attack.
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Last Teen Sentenced In 2008 Stabbing Death of Immigrant
The last of seven Long Island teenagers involved in the 2008 stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Marcelo Lucero was stabbed in a confrontation near the Patchogue, N.Y., train station. The killing...Tags: Crimes, WPIX, Defendants, Prosecution, Punishment
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LI Teen Convicted In Hate Crime Stabbing Death Of Ecuadorean Immigrant
Associated Press WriterA Long Island teenager convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime in the killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant could be ordered to spend more than two decades behind bars when he is sentenced on Wednesday. Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Megan O'...Tags: Crimes, Death, Migration, Lawyers, Prosecution
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Teen Gets 25 Years In Hate Crime Stabbing
Associated PressRIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- A New York teenager has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in the hate crime killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant. Nineteen-year-old Jeffrey Conroy got the maximum sentence Wednesday. The Suffolk County Court judge who sentenced him...Tags: Crimes, Death, Punishment, New York, Assault
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Man Convicted Of Ecuadorean Immigrant's Murder As A Hate Crime At Retrial
Associated Press WriterA man was convicted Monday of murder as a hate crime during his retrial on charges that he beat an Ecuadorean immigrant with an aluminum baseball bat after mistaking him and his brother for a gay couple. Jurors deliberated for about seven hours before...Tags: Crimes, Migration, Triborough Bridge, Lawyers, Punishment
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Judge Sonia: N.Y. in D.C., with contentious edge
Spin CycleCesar Perales was seated early, before the Senate hearing room filled up. He stayed, just a couple of rows back from Judge Sonia Sotomayor and her relatives, all the way through the hours of speech making that consumed the......Tags: Crimes, United States, Alabama, Kirsten Gillibrand, Hillary Clinton
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2 Men Plead Not Guilty In Hate Crime
Two Ecuadorean brothers, stumbling home arm-in-arm after a night out, were viciously attacked, and one beaten to death with a baseball bat, by prejudiced, anti-Hispanic men who mistook them for a gay couple, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Hakim Scott and...Tags: Crimes, Lawyers, Prosecution, Minority Groups, Dining and Drinking
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Police: Man Accused of Hate Crime Had Feud with Church
A man arrested on charges of planting hate messages on the altar of a church earlier this week and hurling a log and a bottle at a churchgoer Friday night was reportedly feuding with the pastor over church fees, police said Saturday.
No one was hurt....Tags: Crimes, WPIX, Assault, Death, Crime, Law and Justice
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Patchogue Victim Recalled as 'Peaceful Guy'
Marcello Lucero usually drove to get around, but he chose to walk to a friend's place in Patchogue late Saturday, his brother said. It was on that walk that Lucero, 37, was fatally stabbed because he is Hispanic, police said. Joselo Lucero, 34,...Tags: Railway Transportation, Crimes, Death, Central Islip, Ecuador
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Hispanic Officer to Lead Troubled Suffolk County Precinct
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - He is the highest ranking Hispanic officer in the Suffolk County police department, now Inspector Aristedes Mojica will take command of the fifth precinct, which has recently come under intense scrutiny after a series of bias attacks,...Tags: Crimes, Assault, Death, Juvenile Delinquency, Crime, Law and Justice
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Mastic Residents Wake Up to Racial Vandalism
Racist graffiti, some targeting President-elect Barack Obama, was scrawled on more than a dozen cars in a normally quiet Mastic neighborhood on Wednesday morning, police and residents said. A Suffolk County police spokesman said "multiple vehicles"...Tags: Barack Obama, Racism, Death, Vehicles, Immigration
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Charge in Hate-Slay Upgraded to Murder
The teen accused of wielding the knife in the fatal hate-crime stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant in Patchogue will face an upgraded charge of murder, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. And all seven Patchogue-Medford High School students...Tags: Crimes, Medford, Death, Family, East Patchogue
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