4 Found Shot To Death On a Highway (Illegals in Chandler, AZ)

KABC7 - Los Angeles ^ | November 4th, 2003

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4 Found Shot To Death On a Highway

ARIZONA — Authorities are combing the desert looking for clues and suspects after a deadly shooting spree in Arizona. It happened on Interstate-10 near the town of Casa Grande Southeast of Phoenix.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety says all the victims and people who have been arrested appear to be illegal immigrants. The shooting occurred as some of the vehicles were moving down the highway. There is speculation that the shooting may have involved rival smuggling operations.

Details are very sketchy so far, but four people are dead and three others wounded. The Arizona Department Of Public Safety says Highway Patrol Officers received a call about a wounded man next to the highway. There were other reports of people running into the desert. When they arrived they found three bodies inside the pickup. One was lying on the ground outside the pickup. Two victims were found hiding under a tree nearby.

A few miles away from the accident border patrol agents tracked down four people. It is not known at this time, if they are suspects in the shooting or ran into the desert to escape harm. Sheriff's SWAT officers in an armored personnel carrier showed up to help guard and transport the four men. According to a spokesman for the Department Of Public Safety, all the people appear to be illegal immigrants.

The border patrol would only confirm for ABC7 Eyewitness News that its agents were on the scene and involved in the investigation. However DPS spokesman Frank Valenzuela tells Eyewitness News that the shootings occurred as the vehicles were moving down the highway.

A van blacked out windows and two of them broken out was found a short distance away. Valenzuela says a Ford Explorer was stopped near Phoenix with several people in it including a wounded woman.

Gila River Tribal Police found the van and there were five or six people running from it. There is a search underway in the desert for any other victims or people connected to the incident. The Penal County Sheriff's Department is now leading the investigation.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Take home message dont talk about illegals and how great they are unless you have to live with them, which in Minnesota I hardly doubt you do. I would bet that pretty much everybody up there is white as snow and unaffected by the problems this border invasion is creating.

Lighten up, Francis. You're going to pop a gasket.

I live in a small rural community, about 5000 residents, 20% of whom are illegals who work in the food packing plants here. I know some, I've talked with them, and for the most part they keep to themselves, and stay out of trouble. Yes, our schools teach them in English, and the kids actually learn it.

I travel around the Midwest discussing employee benefits at various companies. I have spoken with many (probably) illegals at these companies--mostly in the Chicago area--and their employers generally tell me that their Hispanic workers are very hard-working and dependable.

I'm sorry my experience has not been the same as yours. I'm sure it IS 100% worse in Arizona or other border states. I never said it wasn't, so lighten up and keep your 'lily-white' comments to yourself. Immigration affects ALL Americans in one way or another. It obviously affects you more than me because of the much higher concentration you have throughout your state, and because of the Balkanized conclaves that have been allowed to exist in border states.

[El Gato]

Pretty amazing that he can get away with crap like that, considering his Irish-Spanish ancestry. Not exactly a Mestizo himself.

Most of the elite kleptocrats are like that, much Spanish(or other European), not much Indian. OTOH, my Mexican friends, and they are pretty well off folks due their own hard work and business successes, have lots of Indio in their background. One's mother is full blood Mayan (family name Dzib), the other is very very dark complected, but his features are not particualarly Mayan.

[sasafras]

We will have to agree to disagree on the work ethic of mexican immigrants - my experience has been that most are pretty lazy. And you are right my experience is much different than yours, ever go into a convienence store to get a coke and find out that knowone speaks english - it happens here or go to the ER and watch illegals walk out without having to pay a bill while our service men and women are eaking out a living while protecting our rights. It is frustraiting to say the least that politicians want to give illegals more benefits than our soldiers.