Local Arrests in Newark Slayings - washingtonpost.com
A key suspect in the brutal killings of three college students in Newark was arrested early yesterday in Oxon Hill, where authorities found the 24-year-old Nicaraguan man among a group drinking beer and getting tattooed in a filthy apartment furnished with little more than mattresses on the floor.
Twenty minutes later, police arrested his 16-year-old half brother in the basement of a Woodbridge townhouse as the intense manhunt in the execution-style killings moved to the Washington immigrant community, authorities said.
Authorities said the suspects — Rodolfo Godinez and the teenager, who is not being identified because he is to be charged as a juvenile — were arrested on fugitive warrants for their involvement in the grisly Aug. 4 killings.
Godinez is believed to be a ringleader in the killings that shocked Newark and the rest of the nation with their incomprehensible brutality, authorities said. Police have said the students were forced to kneel against a wall behind an elementary school before being shot in the head. Cellphones and jewelry were taken from them, and two were slashed in the face with either a knife or a machete.
What is entirely missing from this WaPo “report?”
This:
4th suspect in Newark schoolyard killings remains at large - Breaking News From New Jersey - NJ.com
Godinez has lived on Midland Avenue and Manor Drive in Newark, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement records indicated he may have also been in the country illegally. 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 last night.
It used to be that the justification the media used for not identifying criminal suspects by ethnicity or skin color was that “it didn’t make any difference,” and that it might needlessly “demonize” particular racial or ethnic groups.
Now, the media seems to have arrived at applying the same standard to criminal sub-groups, as if it feared “demonizing” illegal aliens.
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