Jury hands down 1st conviction in Newark illegal alien gang massacre
In 2007, a gang of MS-13-tied illegal aliens ambushed a group of young college students in Newark and murdered them execution-style in a schoolyard. A refresher course before we get to the jury decision that came down this morning:
I covered the story — and the open-borders failures that paved the way for the murderers — extensively (see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. A reminder of the brutal crime:
The four students were hanging out behind Mount Vernon School on Aug. 4, 2007, when they were confronted by their attackers with a handgun and a machete. Three of the victims — Terrance Aeriel, 18, Dashon Harvey, 20, and Iofemi Hightower, 20 — were killed when they were lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head. Terrance’s sister, Natasha Aeriel, survived after being shot in the face and left for dead.
All of the victims were robbed, and Aeriel and the group’s other female, Iofemi Hightower, were sexually molested and cut with machetes and knives, according to a lawsuit recently filed against the city school system and the alleged killers.
And another graphic reminder:
The thugs who shot four college students in Newark reportedly preceded their sick attack by trying to sexually assault their two female victims.
The group of six assailants – who shot two men and a woman dead and wounded another woman – failed in their attempt at a sexual attack, and then decided to kill their victims, according to 1010 WINS radio.
Six suspects have now been charged in the Aug. 4 atrocity, in which the victims were blasted execution-style.
Yesterday, a family member of one of the slain victims, Iofemi Hightower, described the level of savagery of the attack. He said the thugs used a machete to hack their victims.
“They cut my niece’s face off,” said John McClain, who is Hightower’s great-uncle, and the chaplain of the Newark Police Department. “They cut her from cheek to cheek. They left her head hanging.”
McClain said the mortician told him he had to work for three days to put his grand-niece’s face back together.
“Most people couldn’t tell, when he was done, but the family could tell,” he said.
The busted deportation system aided several of the murderous thugs, as I reported in 2007, including Rodolfo Godinez, who was convicted today.
Reminder:
Rodolfo Antonio Godinez Gomez entered the U.S. from Nicaragua on Oct. 24, 1992. He was ordered deported on May 5, 1993, but it isn’t clear if he ever left the country, according to Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontura. “It seems to me that he was illegal,” he said.
The Star-Ledger also reported:
He arrived in the country in 1992 and obtained permanent legal residency in 2001.
He had eluded cops for four years after becoming a fugitive on July 7, 2003, when he ditched a Superior Court hearing on charges that he robbed and attacked three people in Irvington a year earlier.
It took the savage deaths of three promising college students for the law to finally catch up to Godinez today. Notice how this New York Times story is completely silent on the role that lax immigration enforcement played in enabling the barbaric killers:
In the first trial stemming from the shootings of four college-age friends in a Newark schoolyard, a jury on Monday returned guilty verdicts for three murders and one attempted murder, after less than a day of deliberations.
The jury in state Superior Court here convicted Rodolfo Godinez, a 26-year-old native of Nicaragua, of all the charges facing him, including multiple counts each of robbery and weapons and conspiracy. He could face consecutive life sentences on the murder charges…
…Even in a hardened by violence, the killings came as a shock. Three of the victims had been students at Delaware State University, and Ms. Hightower planned to enroll there. The shootings occurred in the Ivy Hill section at the western edge of Newark, not one of the rougher areas in the city’s center and south.
The crimes spurred changes in city policing strategies, including greater use of video cameras and devices to detect the sound of gunshots.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil…enable more evil.
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Just doing the ethnic cleansing Americans won’t do.
Once again the law proves too weak to give justice. I’m with Hammurabi. He should be executed by machete – slowly.
The handwringers will be the death of us all!
It is non-law enforcement like this in third world countries that ultimately results in the formation of death squads, which protect the population from these thugs.
This will be the net effect, if the authorities do not start doing their jobs. I do not think we need a country where death squads are roaming around.
Newark celebrates diversity!!
I ask God to be with the families of these young students. I wonder if an elected from Newark family member was killed in this horror, would things change with the illegal aliens there?
I hope this scum rots in h..l for what he and the others did!
L
Deportation for criminal illegals – shoving them out of plane over open water. Or any other method which results in that criminal never returning to commit another crime.
The same goes for the officials who refuse to enforce our immigration laws and all their enablers.
Consecutive life sentences my ass. Get a rope. Why should this waste of oxygen get a free ride on the taxpayers for the rest of his sorry life?
Is he going to bring those three kids back from the grave? Is he going to be rehabilitated to the point where he only robs and assaults people, without killing them? What is the point?
Is this fabulous demonstration of the American legal system going to stop future sociopaths from committing this same type of crime?
As long as this violence is contained within urban areas I’m ok with it.
Errah, perhaps he can move in with Auntie Zeituni??!!
When will the lame stream media anchors start saying they’re sorry it was done by illegals since it will make illegals look bad, etc., etc. etc.
Errah NPD is to busy chasing stolen cars for the cameras. If they did any prosecution of illegals that’s a TV show I’d watch. Just more nibbling around the edges.
“…the dead cost nothing.”—
Longshanks/Braveheart
I really believe that everyone should train, acquire and carry firearms on them at all times, just like people always carry a cell phone on them.
These attacks are always made possible because the perpetrators gain the advantage by use of weapons. If every potential victim carries a weapon, then no criminal can present a threatening advantage.
Remember, 99.9999% of the time, the police can only respond to a crime after it takes place.
123upnorth,
I agree with you on the carry firearms. I recall an old movie ‘Death Wish’ and Bronson did a bang up job on the bad guys the police would not do. I am NOT suggesting we go that far though. I do believe we citizens have a right under the 2nd to protect ourselves.
L
Hadenough – I like your way of thinking, so I am not knocking it, but urban sprawl and the problems associated with it act like a mold growing inside a home. It mutliplies exponentially to the point that it makes the entire dwelling unihabitable. As suburban places, over time, grow into urban cities, you have to continually move farther and farther away to avoid the contaminaton.
The Deathwish series was the best! Do you remember the giggler, where he took Bronson’s camera and then bronson let him run across the street and eventually shot him in the back – I was only 10 years old at the time, but I knew justice when I saw it.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Looks like this guy shares Manuel Noriega’s esthetician.
Here is another problem. Instead of addressing the real issue, cameras are put in place to watch the law abiding as well. They act like this is a good thing.
According to the lame stream media, the perp is always the victim, especially if the perp is a minority.
We should execute ANY illegal alien who who is convicted of murdering an American citizen. No questions. No appeals. March them out of the court house directly to the execution. And make sure it is common knowledge to everyone. They continue to come back and break laws because we are so soft on criminals. Be harsh and I guarantee you we will see a drop in crimes by illegals.
We could always contract the Russian Navy to transport them. They have an effective method for releasing pirates. I would think they could handle this for us for a modest transportation fee.
Ragman, if you want Progressive support on this you need to shift the focus to emphasizing the benefits of eliminating the perp’s CO2 emission and his overall carbon footprint, as well as the reduction to the Healtchcare burden on our country.
These will resonate with Progressives.
The “judicial system” in this country is broken, from the police officer on the street all the way up through the supreme court.
Freedom, right to a fair trial, trial by jury of peers,all of it, is just a facade across the face of a dark, rotten, diseased system that is interested only in protecting criminals.
Sure, there are exceptions. There are always exceptions, but as a whole, the system of justice in this country is as corrupt and self serving as our so-called congress.
I often think of the great Samuel L. Jackson line that Hugh Hewitt likes to play…
“I don’t like you because you’re gonna get me killed…”
Sadly, this perverted murderer illegal alien will be right at home in the American prison system. Our prisons are infected and some may say controlled by the Mexican Mafia and all of its affiliated gangs, of which one is MS-13. The only appropriate sentence is execution by the same government which enabled the criminal for so long.
(M is the 13th letter of the alphabet, and is an homage paid to the Mexican Mafia. This is why you see many gangs like Surenos-13, MS-13, and other latino gangs include the 13 in their names, wear 13 on sports jerseys, etc)
I could have sworn that ‘everybody knows’ that ‘they all come here to work hard and help their family’.
This is the problem. The news coverage shouldn’t be based on the ones that aren’t a problem, but on the ones that are dangerous and violent criminals.
There are a LOT of violent criminal illegal aliens coming across the border. How scared does AZ have to be before the federal government does its job of protecting citizens of America (that’s why we all pay taxes).
My maid (of unknown legal status though she has 3 ‘anchor babies’) said that her father was killed in Mexico by someone over a cow. The murderer came to America because he was less likely to be caught by police.
Think about that. That’s just someone I know, and i don’t know many people. There are dangerous people coming into this country.
Apparently the only place where you are allowed to be racist is when you say ‘all hispanics and Mexicans come here to work peacefully and provide for their families’.
if someone said ‘all black people are great at basketball’, well that would be racist. But it’s not racist to ignore the danger coming across our borders by saying that all hispanics are ‘good’ (though they are stealing our government services).
Only slightly OT
Is Saudi Prince Bandar, who used to go on American Sunday morning talk shows and speak about Saudi Arabia’s committment to fighting al Qaeda, the point man for funding al Qaeda in Iraq?
illegal alien gang massacre? Isn’t that statement just a tad judgmental, ethnocentric and perhaps even racist? If we are not allowed to keep them OUT how is it fair to expect them to obey any other laws?
But all in all I wish NJ would hire ME as a hangman. That way it wouldn’t be racist.
Judge Roy Bean is one of my heroes
Have Rope
Will Travel
AzN=a Paladin for the New Age!
ArizonaNeanderthal.
As your name suggests, you are from AZ. With the new law Gov. Brewer signed, the whole world knows AZ is a racist state, that makes you as someone who lives there also racist!
Judge Bean did good taking care of things.
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L
Now can we whack him?
yet another one this time a MA state rep affected…
State Rep. Mike Moran of Brighton was rear-ended by a suspected illegal immigrant this week. The suspect was wearing a Mexican costume at the time of the crash where he slammed into Moran at 60 mph.
The suspect, 27-year-old Isaias Naranjo, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, leaving the scene of an accident and driving without a valid license. According to the report, when told of the serious charges he would be facing, he just laughed.
But because of action taken by Gov. Deval Patrick, state police were unable to notify immigration authorities that Naranjo might be illegal.
Three years ago, Patrick revoked an order by former governor Mitt Romney which gave state police power to investigate immigration violations.
The governor’s aides are defending the measure, saying the department of correction can still pursue the violation.
The accident is bound to reverberate at the Statehouse where lawmakers just narrowly rejected a bill to crackdown on illegal immigrants.
This could also become an issue in the governor’s race because of what Patrick did three years ago.
The suspect, whose blood alcohol content was .25 at the time of the accident according to the police report, is being held on $50,000 cash bail.
From the police report:
“..he just laughed slurring that he was going to back to ‘my country’ mexico. “Nothing is going to happen to me, man.”
I like your way of thinking, but their is still achance he could make it ashore.
I say send him to the Artic with what he is wearing right now. he can check on the global warming going on there. This way the libs cant claim it is cruel and unusual punishment.
Words, just words…
Truesoldier, The height of the drop has to be high enough so if the fall didn’t kill them they would be too injured to swim. Think of them as scum.
or… could use the guillotine, it’s quicker.
How horrific for the parents of these victims. I cannot imagine the agony of seeing people slaughtered this way. These horrible politicians have blood on their hands. IMO, if nothing is done about the illegal alien problem, we better get ready to lock and load, rock and roll.
No,no, no:
I get be a self-hating minority–anything I do wrong is your fault
As we say in da Hood/barrio/Gated Community: El Gringo did it!
Sadly my father never bought that line
Viva Judge Bean.
Pandering to the polar bear vote there truesoldier?
The average illegal alien has 8 arrests on their record
1 in 25 illegals are felons
1 in 13 illegals have committed sexual assault after arriving in the US
45 Americans are killed every day in this country at the hands of illegal immigrants, 25 of which are via cold-blooded murder
50% of LA County’s gang members are illegals
2/3rds of LA County’s “Most Wanted” are illegals
35% of LA County’s prison population is comprised of illegal aliens
90% of LA County’s murder warrants are for illegal aliens
50% of California’s net debt can be directly linked to illegal immigration
ps: these crime statistics are 125 times higher than that of the average American citizen
You mean those undocumented residents of Alaska with the white fur coats?
Hey, they need to eat too! So let the undocumented help each other, right?
Above story cut and pasted to Word and sent to Senator John McCain-snail mail:
Yes indeed lock and load, rock and roll
Ever see the old Far side cartoon showing two crocodiles laying on a riverbank on their backs with their front legs behind there heads looking thoroughly satisfied?
In the river you see a hat with a bite out of it.
One of the crocs is saying, “That was great. No horns, no fur, no hooves; just soft and pink.”
Missed it. But that is probably a good thing (shudder).
The end game is the destruction of these United States. All of us watched the treason in the Demorats as they clapped to the Mexican President bad mouth AZ’s new law. He called it low by the way.
The CFR desire for a North American Union brings death to Americans.
I stay armed, with my gear close.
I agree with the above statement that WE THE PEOPLE may well have to do the jobs our gubmint refuses to do. If they won’t dispose of the trash, citizens have historically done that job. Vigilanteism ONLY occurs when the gubmint abdicates it’s responsibilities, but we are fast approaching that scenario.
The primary responsibility of the U.S. government is to protect the territorial integrity and people of this country. They have completely abdicated this responsibility. Both parties have been complicit in this. We are being told it is not possible to control our borders, enforce our laws, and thereby control our destiny as a nation. Hogwash. We are being sold out by corporations intent on importing workers for jobs that can’t be exported with the taxpayers paying the true costs, financial and human. If we act like sheep and don’t stop the inundation across our borders, we will lose our country without a bleat.
I saw the idiot Alan Colmes on Megan Kelly’s news program on FOXNews today and he says illegal immigration has nothing to do with things like this.
COSMIC!!
Here in Williamsburg, we have an illegal invader who murdered, raped and tortured a 16 year old girl. The justice system has made a mockery of the case because the illegal claims that he is deaf and doesn’t understand English. This has prevented him from going to trial now for at least 3 to 4 years – and probably never.
This illegal made it from South America to Williamsburg, had a job locally, and was able to get transportation to and from his job. Anybody think this is anything but a scam.
Also, referring to the above, why is this MS-13 thug who is here illegally given the rights of an American citizen – including the right to life in prison? Send the guy to Gitmo and house him with some Muslim terrorists who are told the whole story ahead of time – and let’s see what happens.
From a useful idiot on Hannity to a useless idiot used by various FNC talking heads to illustrate the opposite of whatever reasonable point they’re trying to make. Why they continue to give him air time eludes me. Sympathy?
Polar bears are people too…or something squishy like that a tree hugger would say…;)
Colmes has garnered more than his fair share of stupidity supply. I’m unsure as to whether he believes the BS he spews or does it just to irritate people. Either way, one learns very little from the man.
Anyone else willing to bet that the schoolyard where they were murdered was a “gun-free” zone????
Let’s see:
White victims: check
Illegal alien criminals: check
MS-13 gang: check
Headline msm news reports:
checklike the old adage…trespassers will be shot…survivors will be shot again…if they survive the first bail out at 10K feet, try it again…
Wouldn’t be surprised if they shared the same gene pool.
trespassers will be shot…survivors will be shot again
The city made my brother-in-law take his sign down:
“WARNING – HIV POSITIVE PIT BULL”
*The victims were black folks, I do believe, not that it matters; Bottom line is prevention saves lives, and in this case, ineffective border security and not monitoring who we invite into the country are just two of the root cause problems that are getting 25 Americans killed on a daily basis.
As for the sentencing of these individuals, “Society will only allow what it can afford.” You, the reader, are society, if you feel the plunishment does not fit the crime, speak out.
My favorite Far Side is of two polar bears eating their way through an igloo, and one says to the other, ” I loves these things, crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside.”
Here is a new piece from NumbersUSA. It is an ‘essential reading list’ for some high-level government officials:
In addition to the AZ SB 1070 (+ changes) there is also:
U.S.C. 1302 (requires aliens to register and be fingerprinted)
U.S.C. 1304 (requires aliens 18+ to ‘carry their papers’ at all times)
U.S.C. 1373 (put into effect in 1996, prohibits ‘sanctuary policies’)
Just because you wanted to know.
I had totally forgotten that one. Indeed, a classic and it fits so much better than mine, if you retrace the thread.
………….do not expect Univision or Telemundo to air this story. They are too busy calling the Arizona Immigration Law “profiling, discriminatory, and against immigration”. These two Hispanic networks do not differentiate between “legal or illegal” immigration.
I live here in Miami, Florida and these hypocrites will not air any of the barbaric and senseless crimes committed by illegal aliens, nor of my fellow Law Enforcement officers that have been killed in the line of duty at the southern front (Land Border).
A hasty execution right after conviction should be a good deterrent.
“Si ves pacem, para bellum”
Rio
Semper Fi!
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MOLON LABE!
O-B-A-M-A..One Big A$$ Mistake, America!
amen to that, very slowly.
The eyes say it all. There is no countenance or soul shining through. Nothing more than a rabid animal. He looked the devil in the eye and lost.
Newark? That’s in New Jersey and it’s governor is Menendez and he is screaming at Obama for sending 1200 troops to the border? Calls that act terrible etc. What is our nation coming to? Elected officials lobbying on behalf of killers like these and others pouring across the border unchecked? Democrats cried because Nixon was corrupt, well, look at the mess we are in with Democrats in charge.
Menendez is the US Senator here.
You should see how many illegals are in NJ. It’s a sanctuary state. NO enforcement whatsoever. None.
I realize the situation in AZ is bad, but I believe NJ is not far behind. The changes here in the last 5 or 6 years are hard to believe. Makes me wonder how many of the young illegals roaming our local mall are MS-13.
Menendez is scum by the way. If his own family were attacked by MS-13 members, he’d still be pandering to illegals. Votes are his priority.