Posted on 05/09/2006 11:59:01 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Laredo man was critically injured in an early morning shooting at Colonia Centenario, located 18 miles west of Laredo.
An armed suspect was later apprehended by the Webb County Sheriffs Deparment SWAT team at the same location.
Maj. Doyle Holdridge said suspect Sergio Fernando Cox-Miranda, 38, pulled out a .12 gauge shotgun and blasted his cousin, 33-year-old Pablo Tayum, during an altercation. Both men are from Guatemala.
Sheriffs deputies were dispatched to the scene at about midnight Saturday, and Tayum was rushed to Laredo Medical Center.
Tayum was in stable condition, but doctors found shell fragments near his heart and in his liver, Holdridge said.
Meanwhile, Cox-Miranda barricaded himself inside a second-story apartment at the ranch. Holdridge activated the SWAT team and deputies tried to negotiate with the suspect to no avail.
After emergency medical personnel arrived, the SWAT team entered the apartment through a metal door and arrested Cox-Miranda.
"The suspect was safely subdued with no injuries to him or our deputies," said Sheriff Rick Flores in a statement.
At the time, he had blood on both arms, which investigators figured belonged to the victim, Holdridge said.
Investigators said Cox-Miranda signed a written a confession during an interview at the Sheriffs substation.
Cox-Miranda is charged with first-degree felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and tampering with physical evidence, a third-degree felony.
Investigators accused Cox-Miranda of trying to burn the clothes he was wearing.
He was taken to Webb Couny jail on a $50,000 bond for the assault charge and a $20,000 bond for the tampering charge. The U.S. Marshals also put an immigration hold on Cox-Miranda.
(Clay Reddick may be reached at (956) 728-2582 or by e-mail at clay@lmtonline.com)
Guatemalan Ping!
I wonder what percent of the anywhere from 11 to 25 million criminal, illegal aliens are violent criminals? 10%? 15%? 20%?
It's going to get real ugly before it gets any better.
Just doing the shooting that good law abiding Americans won't do.
I think you are so right, it is going to get very ugly. I dont understand why its been left to get to this either. Looking the other way has never solved any problem and our govt should have secured the border long ago. The gangs really scare me. Why on earth would we let people like this stay?
I'm guessing that the number of Americans who have been killed by illegal immigrants dwarfs the number who have been killed in Iraq.
Here are two staggering facts established by Heather MacDonald of City Journal to consider:
In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.
In 2000, nearly 30 percent of federal prisoners were foreign-born.
And you'd be guessing right.
Here's just the tip of that iceberg, B...
http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/
I've got a cousin who does property appraisals (mostly big ranches) and when he goes to the Laredo area, besides his hand gun that he always takes, he also takes a sawed off shotgun.
It's dangerous down there. Funny that guns are illegal in glorious old Mexico. They're so law abiding down there.
Mexico, what a POS.
Must have been eating a hard boiled egg when he was shot.
I've had plenty of old-timers tell me that one day the 'Mezcans', as they described them, would try and retake Texas. I wish I had listen to them then.
ping
even presidente bush concedes that 12% of the illegals have criminal backgrounds.
sorry, meant 8% (1 in 12).
The mistake you are making is assuming that George Bush is a rational person - thinks like a patriot, cares about America's future, etc. In my opinion, none of that is true. He lives for the day when Mexico takes over America, and if 1 in 12 are criminals, so much the better.
A question for you: Is George Bush a stockholder in PEMEX, the Mexican national oil industry monopoly? And to what percentage....?
The following NY Times link is a bit of a tease.
i think the figure i mentioned is derived from the fact that of 12 mexican invaders interdicted, at least one has a criminal background per the border patrol. probably higher, and, if you consider the fact that all of them are breaking into our homes and stealing, it is 100%.
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