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Two men accused of killing an off-duty Florida firefighter for his Nike sneakers and iPhone boasted about the murder just moments after the heinous act, according to a witness who saw the gunman “smiling about it.” Torrey Holston, 26, and Jose Garcia Romero, 27, allegedly killed Coral Springs-Parkland firefighter Christopher Randazzo, 39, in front of a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea resort when he left his second job as a bartender at Aruba Beach Cafe around 1 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2019. Holston was heard saying, “I can’t believe I just caught a body,” witness Cheyenne Papach testified Tuesday. “And he was smiling about...

The silence of the Black Leadership on another issue is equally puzzling. Specifically: Gregory Kane, in a commentary at eblackamericaweb.com, states, “Black Americans are engaged in a race war, but it’s not the one you think it is. And you can bet our traditional “misleaders”—the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus and Julian Bond and Bruce Gordon of the NAACP—won’t ever talk about this race war.” The race war Mr. Kane is referring to is what LA County Sheriff Lee Baca (in a Washington Post article) calls the, “daily ‘brown on black’ violence” occurring inside California’s...

Gang Member Admits Role in 2001 Va. Slaying By Tom Jackman Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 10, 2004; Page B01 A Salvadoran gang member admitted yesterday in a Fairfax County courtroom that he led the gang rape of a Falls Church area woman in the summer of 2001, then kicked her in the neck with such force that it killed her. Oscar Omar Ramos Hernandez, 26, pleaded guilty to capital murder, abduction and rape and signed a plea agreement to serve three consecutive life sentences. Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Kathleen H. MacKay said she would probably accept the...