Posted on 01/24/2009 3:47:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Watsonville gang leader accused of murder is being held on $1 million bail after the district attorney told a judge that Jose Velasquez and other gang members stabbed a man 80 times, then left his bloody body near a Pajaro Valley berry field.
District Attorney Bob Lee gave new details about the gruesome killing during the first court appearance for Velasquez, 25, one of two Watsonville men who have been arrested and charged with murdering Oscar Avalos Sanchez, 35, and dumping his body off Carlton Road earlier this month.
"The facts of this case include 80 stabbings," Lee said. "It was almost to the point of torture."
All of the 80 stabs punctured Sanchez's sweatshirt, 60 penetrated his undershirt and 40 went into his skin, Lee said. Several were mortal.
Sheriff's Office detectives have said Velasquez and Alejandro Chavez, 22, are equally responsible for killing Sanchez, who was an acquaintance, on Jan. 6. Chavez was arrested last week in Missouri and is expected to be extradited to California next week.
All three men had gang ties, and Lee said Velasquez is the leader of a Watsonville gang, which was not identified. However, gang relations were not the motive for the killing, according to investigators.
The motive "was personal, that's all I can tell you," Lee said outside of the courtroom.
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Is it safe to say he was berry stabbed?
At least the gang leader was berry berry angry.
Gangs are the greatest threat to American’s security, not Al Queda. This from the department of justice. Mexico is on the verge of collapse due to the crime wave that has infected every aspect of “social order”.This scurge is coming to this country. Just wait for the kidnappings.
I know it isn’t politically correct to ask this, but what was the citizenship status of the people involved?
Prolly put his burrito in some other guy's gal's taco.
“I know it isn’t politically correct to ask this, but what was the citizenship status of the people involved?”
A gangbanger is a gangbanger...illegal or not....many of them ‘anchor babies’. Just more of what we’ll get with amnesty.
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