Illegal Immigrant Gang Member Charged with Murder: A twice-deported MS-13 gang member has been charged with the brutal murder of a Maryland teenager. Fox News Latino reports that El Salvador-native Oscar Delgado-Perez, 28, faces a charge of first-degree murder in the June stabbing of Cristian Villigran-Morales, who was stabbed over 40 times in order for Delgado-Perez to win credibility with his gang. Delgado-Perez allegedly directed a female to lure Villigran-Morales into a park in a ruse, telling him they would engage in sexual intercourse, and later lured him to the woods where he was killed. A second gang member is in custody for the murder and police are searching for a third. Delgado-Perez was deported in October 2014 and February 2015.
OH Man Faces Death Penalty: An Ohio man accused of murdering two people three years ago while the young son of one of the victims hid upstairs could face the death penalty if found guilty at his trial. Mark Gokavi of the Dayton Daily News reports that the three-week trial of Harvey Lee Jones, 37, just began. He is charged with the January 2013 double murder of Carley Hughley, 32, with whom he had a previous relationship, and Demetrius Beckwith, 29. Jones, a previously convicted sex offender who served a decade in prison, made Hughley and Beckwith lie on the floor before shooting them multiple times and stealing several items. Hughley's then 10-year-old son, who is now 14, was present during the murder and plans to testify in court. Jones has pleaded not guilty to six counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of aggravated robbery and one count of having a weapon under disability.
Killer Faces 2nd Death Penalty Trial 13 Years Later: A Massachusetts man sentenced to death for a deadly crime spree through three New England states in July 2001 has been granted a new sentencing trial. Derek Hawkins of the WaPo reports that Gary Lee Sampson, 56, had his sentence overturned in 2011 after a federal judge found that a juror had lied about her background. He begins his second sentencing trial on Wednesday in the deaths of Philip McCloskey, 69, and Jonathan Rizzo, 19, and prosecutors will again pursue a death sentence. Sampson, who has a violent criminal record and had spent some 16 years in jail prior to the crime spree, engaged in a five-day rampage in New England after returning from North Carolina, where he was wanted in connection with a string of bank robberies. After hitching separate rides from McCloskey and Rizzo in Massachusetts, he brutally killed them; McCloskey was tied up and stabbed 24 times, and Rizzo was tied to a tree in the woods and stabbed in the neck and chest. Sampson later tied up and fatally strangled the caretaker of a New Hampshire city councilor, and unsuccessfully attempted to steal the car of a Vermont man. He was tried separately in those two cases and found guilty. Although Massachusetts abolished the death penalty in 1984, prosecutors can pursue a death sentence against Sampson because the case involving the deaths of McCloskey and Rizzo is federal.
OH Man Faces Death Penalty: An Ohio man accused of murdering two people three years ago while the young son of one of the victims hid upstairs could face the death penalty if found guilty at his trial. Mark Gokavi of the Dayton Daily News reports that the three-week trial of Harvey Lee Jones, 37, just began. He is charged with the January 2013 double murder of Carley Hughley, 32, with whom he had a previous relationship, and Demetrius Beckwith, 29. Jones, a previously convicted sex offender who served a decade in prison, made Hughley and Beckwith lie on the floor before shooting them multiple times and stealing several items. Hughley's then 10-year-old son, who is now 14, was present during the murder and plans to testify in court. Jones has pleaded not guilty to six counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of aggravated robbery and one count of having a weapon under disability.
Killer Faces 2nd Death Penalty Trial 13 Years Later: A Massachusetts man sentenced to death for a deadly crime spree through three New England states in July 2001 has been granted a new sentencing trial. Derek Hawkins of the WaPo reports that Gary Lee Sampson, 56, had his sentence overturned in 2011 after a federal judge found that a juror had lied about her background. He begins his second sentencing trial on Wednesday in the deaths of Philip McCloskey, 69, and Jonathan Rizzo, 19, and prosecutors will again pursue a death sentence. Sampson, who has a violent criminal record and had spent some 16 years in jail prior to the crime spree, engaged in a five-day rampage in New England after returning from North Carolina, where he was wanted in connection with a string of bank robberies. After hitching separate rides from McCloskey and Rizzo in Massachusetts, he brutally killed them; McCloskey was tied up and stabbed 24 times, and Rizzo was tied to a tree in the woods and stabbed in the neck and chest. Sampson later tied up and fatally strangled the caretaker of a New Hampshire city councilor, and unsuccessfully attempted to steal the car of a Vermont man. He was tried separately in those two cases and found guilty. Although Massachusetts abolished the death penalty in 1984, prosecutors can pursue a death sentence against Sampson because the case involving the deaths of McCloskey and Rizzo is federal.
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