Boy, 5, knocks on doors after parents are slain

SFGate.com ^ | 1/16/07 | Demian Bulwa

[LibWhacker]

Answering her doorbell just after 10 p.m. Friday, Mary Jo Cooney looked through her peephole in San Francisco's Mission Terrace neighborhood and saw nothing.

She didn't realize her late-night visitor was too short to see. It was 5-year-old Oscar Limon, spattered with his parents' blood and clutching a Nintendo video game, trying to find someone to help him and his younger sister.

After Oscar rang a second doorbell on Badger Street, neighbors made a terrible discovery. In an extended-cab pickup truck parked around the corner on Still Street, the boy's father and mother had been shot dead.

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Lord, have mercy. Heartbreaking story. I'm glad the little ones weren't hurt. I hope they catch the maggots who did this and squish them.

[Sender]

Delacruz and Guzman-Vasquez dated as teenagers in the Mexican state of Jalisco, their relatives said. At age 18, he sneaked across the border with friends in an effort to find work. Guzman-Vasquez missed him and followed a couple of years later.

He eventually found work in construction, relatives said. She became a full-time homemaker.

They were quiet and religious and had no enemies, family members said. One of the walls of their living room was dominated by a roughly 4-foot-tall crucifix.

Cooney said the children appeared to be dressed up Friday night, perhaps for church or a special occasion. Oscar, in pants and a jacket, had just gotten his hair cut. His sister was dressed all in pink, with pink bows in her pigtails and gold earrings. Both children wore gold bracelets engraved with their names.

Cooney said Oscar had told her his mother picked him up early from preschool Friday. He told her, "I was scared because of the bad man."

Oscar mentioned the "bad man" more than once, Cooney said.

All thoughts about illegal immigration aside, I would wager that whoever shot the parents was someone from Jalisco, Mexico who had a beef with them.

May God protect the children, white black or brown.

[Doctor Raoul]

"It was the most horrible evening of my life," said Cooney, who with her husband helped to care for the children for the next few hours as police learned what they could from the boy and social workers made arrangements to house him and Sahian.

God bless the Cooneys.

This one hurts.

[Doctor Raoul]

I wonder if this is a case of not paying the coyote who got them across the border?

[Sender]

Could be a coyote, a jealous suitor, or who knows. We have imported the values of death for honor.

[Wuli]

"All thoughts about illegal immigration aside, I would wager that whoever shot the parents was someone from Jalisco, Mexico who had a beef with them."

And, we have no extradition treaty with Mexico and because we have the death penalty Mexican courts will not let Mexican authorities help us arrest Mexican fugitives who commit capital crimes here. If the killer was from Jalisco, he is probably already SAFELY back there now, having a beer.

[Theresawithanh]

An incredibly sad story. Prayers for these two little ones.

[BigCinBigD]

This is how Batman started.

[Magic Sam]

Come on, man. What's to joke about?

[VeniVidiVici]

Drugs. Money. Same that is going on in the border states of both Mexico and the US.

[PzGr43]

"plata o plomo" - "silver or lead"