(AP STORY) Jury convicts man in NJ schoolyard triple slayings
NEWARK (edited) The first defendant to be tried for a triple schoolyard killing three years ago was convicted on all counts. Rodolfo Godinez, a Nicaraguan who was one of six charged with the brutal slayings, was convicted on all 17 counts.
The savage killings of Dashon Harvey, Iofemi Hightower and Terrance Aeriel spurred a wave of anti-crime measures in Newark. A fourth victim survived and testified against Godinez. She is not being identified b/c of sexual assault charges against two other defendants. NOTE: Iofemi's face was hacked off with a machete---the mortician had to work for three days to put her face back together. Machetes are the signature weapons of violent MS-13 gangs from South America who are active in 42 states, according to a FBI report.
The three victims were found slumped against a wall of the playground, w/ mob-style gunshot wounds to the back of the head. Godinez left DNA on a beer bottle at the playground but wasn't tied to the gun or knife attacks — prosecutors used statements Godinez made to police and to a jailhouse acquaintance that implicated him. Godinez could face several life terms in prison at sentencing on July 8. By SAMANTHA HENRY, AP writer.
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BACKSTORY
Those indicted were Rodolfo Godinez, 25; his 17-year-old brother, Alexander Alfaro; peruvian illegal Jose Lachira Carranza (a child rapist), 29; Melvin Jovel, 19; Shahid Baskerville, 16; and Gerardo Gomez, 16. Baskerville and Gomez were both 15 at the time of the killings.
The three victims were college students hanging out behind the school when they were brutally killed. News reports conveniently fail to report the atrocious actions of the Newark justice system just prior to the killings of these innocent youngsters.
BACKSTORY Asst Prosecutor Margarita Rivera and Superior Court Judge Thomas Vena are the PC nitwits who freed killer Carranza.....(just helping out one of their own---snicker).
Prior to the killings, Judge Vena aided and abetted the release of Peruvian illegal Carranza (then in custody charged with 32 counts of child rape). Carranza’s release was encouraged by Asst prosecutor Margarita Rivera who was handling Carranza's child rape cases--RIVERA WAS FULLY AWARE OF THE CHARGES.
CAUGHT ON TAPE Video aired on MSNBC-TV showed Judge Vena asking Carranza for his SS no. Carranza lies (to game the system), "I don't have it." On-camera, Rivera clearly facilitates Carranza's lies----Rivera chimes in that child predator Carranza didn't have a SS #.
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
Even dummies like Vena and Rivera must know Killer Carranza has several SS #'s and multiple identities to defraud the US government to collect numerous tax-paid benefits (a common practice within the illegal latino underground).
Then-Newark prosecutor Paula Dow (she is now NJ AG) should have done the job she gets paid for---to protect the public from criminals. Dow should have overruled Rivera and kept Carranza locked up.
These L/E officials corrupted the system and let killer Carranza roam free. Dolts with law degrees. The rancid odor of affirmative action fouls the air.
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Thursday June 12, 2008
Gun used in Newark schoolyard slaying found on Long Island
by Jonathan Schuppe and Maura McDermott/The Star-
The gun used in last year's Newark schoolyard shootings that left three college students dead and one severely injured has been recovered in Long Island, authorities said.
Suffolk County, NY, District Attorney Thomas J. Spota announced during a news conference today that the .357 Colt Trooper revolver had been seized as part of a undercover crackdown on illegal gun trafficking. The weapon was discovered in the Bay Shore, N.Y., home of Alvaro "Lobo" DelGado, 25, on March 24, according to prosecutors. A grand jury has indicted DelGado, an alleged member of the MS-13 gang, on weapons charges. DelGado is being held on $200,000 bail.
The revolver had five rounds in its chamber when detectives operating on a search warrant found it in DelGado's home, authorities said. DelGado kept the gun in his dresser along with a sawed off shotgun, authorities said. The gun's serial numbers had been shaved off, but Suffolk County forensic technicians were able to recover the identifying numbers, and they matched the ballistics of the bullets in the chamber with those used in the killings, authorities said.
Authorities said the gun was used to kill Iofemi Hightower, 20; Dashon Harvey, 20, and Terrance Aeriel, 18, during an apparent robbery in the playground of the Mt. Vernon School.
Spota said investigators believe the weapon was also used in a double murder outside of New York and another out-of-state murder in which two alleged MS-13 members from Suffolk County are in custody. Spota declined to say where the other murders took place.
The only survivor of the Newark attack, Natasha Aeriel, 20, helped authorities identify the alleged killers. Aeriel was shot and stabbed before her younger brother and the other students were forced to kneel and shot in the head. The two female victims were also sexually molested and cut with machetes and knives, according to a lawsuit filed by Natasha Aeriel against the city school system and the killers.
With Aeriel's assistance, detectives rounded up the six accused killers, some of whom are alleged members of the MS-13 gang. Jose Lachira Carranza, 39, Rodolfo Godinez, 24, Melvin Jovel, 18, Alexander Alfaro, 17, Shahid Baskerville, 16, and Gerardo Gomez, 15, have been charged in the killings, and prosecutors are preparing to present the case to a grand jury. The six suspects have pleaded not guilty. All three juveniles are being tried as adults.
The four victims, all current or prospective students at Delaware State University, visited the courtyard late at night on Aug. 4. The assailants surrounded them in an apparent robbery that quickly turned violent.
Carranza, a Peruvian alien, was in the country illegally, had been arraigned on an unrelated charge the day before the murders. The charges against him sparked new rules on dealing with the arrest of undocumented immigrants in New Jersey.
SOURCE http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/gun_used_in_newark_schoolyard.html
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