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Marcelo Lucero, 38, who moved to Patchogue 15 years ago, was fatally attacked by seven students, all 17 and 16 years old from the Patchogue-Medford High School, according to Suffolk police. They were charged with felony gang assault. One of them, Jeffrey Conroy, also was charged with manslaughter as a hate crime for allegedly stabbing Lucero in the chest. In front of a Central Islip courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Nancy Clifford said the group plotted late Saturday to target a Hispanic stranger in a racially motivated attack.
Marcelo Lucero, 38, who moved to Patchogue 15 years ago, was fatally attacked by seven students, all 17 and 16 years old from the Patchogue-Medford High School, according to Suffolk police. They were charged with felony gang assault. One of them, Jeffrey Conroy, also was charged with manslaughter as a hate crime for allegedly stabbing Lucero in the chest. In front of a Central Islip courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Nancy Clifford said the group plotted late Saturday to target a Hispanic stranger in a racially motivated attack.
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Last Teen Sentenced In 2008 Stabbing Death of Immigrant
The last of seven Long Island teenagers involved in the 2008 stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Marcelo Lucero was stabbed in a confrontation near the Patchogue, N.Y., train station. The killing...Tags: Immigration, Trials, Jeffrey Conroy, Juvenile Delinquency, Prisons
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Man Convicted Of Ecuadorean Immigrant's Murder As A Hate Crime At Retrial
Associated Press WriterA man was convicted Monday of murder as a hate crime during his retrial on charges that he beat an Ecuadorean immigrant with an aluminum baseball bat after mistaking him and his brother for a gay couple. Jurors deliberated for about seven hours before...Tags: Trials, Immigration, Jeffrey Conroy, Gays and Lesbians, Prisons
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Patchogue Hate Crime Suspect: "I Stabbed Him."
Staff reporterDamaging testimony was given today against Jeffrey Conroy, the teen on trial for the hate crime murder of an Ecuadorean immigrant in Riverhead, . Suffolk Police Officer Michael Richardsen testified that when he stopped Conroy and 6 other teens moments...Tags: Trials, Crimes, Jeffrey Conroy, Crime, Law and Justice, Juvenile Delinquency
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Fourth Teen Pleads Guilty in LI Hate Crime Stabbing
wpix.comJordan Dasch, of Medford, pleaded guilty in Suffolk County court today to gang assault in the first degree and fourth degree conspiracy for his role in the fatal assault of Marcelo Lucero in Patchogue on November 8, 2008. State Supreme Court Justice...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Jeffrey Conroy, Thomas Spota, Suffolk County (New York), Prisons
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Police: Man Accused of Hate Crime Had Feud with Church
A man arrested on charges of planting hate messages on the altar of a church earlier this week and hurling a log and a bottle at a churchgoer Friday night was reportedly feuding with the pastor over church fees, police said Saturday.
No one was hurt....Tags: Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Assault, Death, Hate Crimes
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Patchogue Victim Recalled as 'Peaceful Guy'
Marcello Lucero usually drove to get around, but he chose to walk to a friend's place in Patchogue late Saturday, his brother said. It was on that walk that Lucero, 37, was fatally stabbed because he is Hispanic, police said. Joselo Lucero, 34,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Suffolk County (New York), Jamaica, Ecuador, Central Islip
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Teens Charged In Racially Motivated Attack
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - The seven high school students accused of killing a man just because he looked Hispanic faced a judge today. The heinous crime created shock waves across the state. Long Island reporter Rob Hoell was in Patchogue where it happened and...Tags: Trials, Jeffrey Conroy, Juvenile Delinquency, Suffolk County (New York), Social Issues
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Latino Group Suing Parents of Hate Crime Suspects
A Latino advocacy group is suing the parents of the seven Patchogue-Medford High School students charged in the fatal stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant, saying the mothers and fathers should be held accountable for how they raise the children. The...Tags: Trials, Litigation, Jeffrey Conroy, New York, Hispanic and Latino Americans
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7 Teens Face Gang Assault Charges in Hate-Crime Slaying
One is a three-sport athlete. Another is a quiet teenager who became more withdrawn after his mother died a few years ago. A third is awaiting sentencing for his involvement in a violent home invasion that left a man dead. Somehow they came together...Tags: Jeffrey Conroy, Teaching and Learning, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Issues, Lawyers
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Hispanic Officer to Lead Troubled Suffolk County Precinct
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - He is the highest ranking Hispanic officer in the Suffolk County police department, now Inspector Aristedes Mojica will take command of the fifth precinct, which has recently come under intense scrutiny after a series of bias attacks,...Tags: Immigration, Crimes, Juvenile Delinquency, Crime, Law and Justice, Assault
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Mastic Residents Wake Up to Racial Vandalism
Racist graffiti, some targeting President-elect Barack Obama, was scrawled on more than a dozen cars in a normally quiet Mastic neighborhood on Wednesday morning, police and residents said. A Suffolk County police spokesman said "multiple vehicles"...Tags: Immigration, Vehicles, Barack Obama, Mastic, Elections
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