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November 21, 2008

Six Long Island Teenagers Arraigned in Immigrant Stabbing Case
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Six teenagers have been arraigned in Long Island, New York on multiple
counts of gang assault and hate crimes in connection with the stabbing
death of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant. Prosecutors said the
teenagers regularly got together to hunt down and hurt Latino men. On
the same day Lucero was murdered, some of the teenagers shot a Latino
man with a BB gun. Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said,
“To them, it was a sport. We know for sure that there are more victims
out there.” A seventh defendant, Jeffrey Conroy, has been charged with
second-degree murder and manslaughter as a hate crime in Lucero’s death.



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