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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.

[Theresawithanh]

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

[BigCinBigD]

This is how Batman started.

[VeniVidiVici]

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