Caucasian Crew leader Jeff Conroy receives max sentence for Hispanic hate crime murder

 Posted by on 2010/05/26  1 Response »
May 262010
 
Caucasian Crew leader Jeff Conroy receives max sentence for Hispanic hate crime murder

Finally, the healing can start for the family of Marcelo Lucero, the Ecuadorean immigrant who was stabbed to death by Jeff Conroy and crew in 2008. Conroy and friends were out for a night of “beaner hopping” in Long Island, when they mistook Lucero for a Mexican and stabbed him to death. Our friends at LONG ISLAND WINS have provided excellent and continuous coverage of this hate crime since the day it happened, right through trial and sentencing. Here’s what Ted Hessen has to say about the outcome. Jeffrey Conroy, convicted this April of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime in the killing of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero, received the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison this afternoon at MORE

Marcelo Lucero & Suffolk County New York – A year later

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Nov 072009
 
Marcelo Lucero & Suffolk County New York - A year later

November 8, 2008. A young Ecuadorian, walking with a friend after a day of work, looking forward to a cold beer and TV with friends, is confronted by a gang of young punks, out for a night of “beaner bashing”.  Something they do for the “sport of it”, several times a week. Jeffrey Conroy, Jordan Dasch, Anthony Hartford, Nicholas Hausch, Christopher Overton, Jose Pacheco and Kevin Shea, all between the ages of 16 and 17 all Patchogue-Medford High School students. The young punks had attacked before. They went out a dozens of times  a year hunting Latinos, harassing them, shooting them with pellets, beating them. The others took the beatings and survived. Marcello Lucero did not. Marcelo Lucero, 38, who MORE