The AP story says Police search for man after 3 bodies found in California, because the AP Stylebook says that it's not "relevant" that a wanted killer is either Hispanic or an illegal immigrant, but it looks like a case of Immigrant Mass Murder, involving Mexican criminal gangs:
PERRIS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are seeking an “armed and very dangerous” man who is believed to have killed three men and left their bodies in a Southern California cemetery, the Riverside County sheriff said Thursday.The three men — Perris residents Jaime Covarrubias Espindola, 50; Jose Maria Aguilar-Espejel, 38 and Rodrigo Aguilar-Espejel, 28 — were killed at the same time. Their bodies were found Monday in the grass at the Perris Valley Cemetery east of Los Angeles.Sheriff Chad Bianco said at a news conferencethere is a felony warrant out for the arrest of Jose Luis Torres Garcia, 33, with $3 million bail. Bianco did not say how the men were killed.“We do not know his motive,” Bianco said.The sheriff said Garcia acted alone and he knew the three victims. They were discovered in a cemetery near the grave of a man who died in Mexico. Officials have not said who the grave belonged to, or whether a relationship existed between that person and the recent victims.“We don’t believe this was a random killing,” Bianco said. “A regular, normal resident of Perris should not have anything to be afraid of.”The sheriff said Garcia has ties to San Jose, California, and Mexico. He has been deported twice. But authorities have not yet determined his current immigration status. There are already two misdemeanor warrants out for his arrest regarding other cases.[More]
Elio Martinez, 46, is the man referred to in the Stamford Advocate headline Stamford man gets 10 years in drunk driving incident that paralyzed a Darien woman, by John Nickerson, February 20, 2020.
Elio Martinez, 46, is the man referred to in the Stamford Advocate headlineAn undocumented immigrant with a pending drunk driving charge has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for crashing into a Darien woman and causing her paralyzing injuries while driving drunk in Stamford in June 2017.Judge Gary White handed down the sentence to Elio Martinez, 46, after a heart rending hearing in which the injured woman, Carrie Maturo, read a lengthy statement detailing how Martinez’s actions affected her life and left her wondering for a time if she might have been better off if he had killed her.Sitting at the prosecutors table with canes at her side and assistant state’s attorney Daniel Cummings, Maturo, 54, said she has been active all her life, playing sports, hiking, biking and camping. She belonged to a triathlon club and skied on water and snow.But all that came to an end, she said, on Father’s Day, June 18, 2017 when she drove to Stamford for an errand and pulled up to a stoplight on East Main Street next to Quintard Terrace near the Myrtle Avenue railroad bridge.
The victim is in bad shape, and feels suicidal. It didn't help that Martinez was, of course, driving without insurance.
When it came time for him to speak, Martinez said he never meant to cause Maturo such pain and apologized to her and the Lord. “It was not my intention to commit any crime because I am not a criminal,” he said through an intrepreter while four of his young children sat in a pew with their mother only a few feet behind him.
The Stamford Advocate has no photographs of "Stamford Man" Martinez, but the Stamford Voice did.
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