Jeffrey Conroy

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...

A 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...

Two Ecuadorean brothers, stumbling home arm-in-arm after a night out, were viciously attacked, and one beaten to death with a baseball bat, by prejudiced, anti-Hispanic men who mistook them for a gay couple, prosecutors said Tuesday. Hakim Scott and...

Damaging 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 Another is a quiet teenager who became more withdrawn after his mother died a few years ago.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...

The teen accused of wielding the knife in the fatal hate-crime stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant in Patchogue will face an upgraded charge of murder, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. And all seven Patchogue-Medford High School students...

PATCHOGUE, NEW YORK - Emotions continue to run high in the Long Island town of Patchogue. The state Human Rights Commissioner attended a meeting Friday aimed at healing the community and at times tempers flared. Things got real tense when Suffolk...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y (WPIX) -- A petite and frail-looking Rosario Lucero traveled all the way from Ecuador to face the seven Patchogue teens accused in the brutal racially motivated beating and stabbing death of her son Marcelo Lucero back in November. But the...

A Riverhead courtroom is filled with tension today as the teenager charged with the hate crime killing of a Hispanic immigrant testified. Jeffrey Conroy, who is charged with murder and manslaughter, told the court that someone else did the fatal...