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Stabbing Suspect Deported 7 Times:  A habitual criminal arrested for an unprovoked knife attack at a Santa Rosa market is a Mexican citizen who has been deported seven times.  Alex Pappas of Fox News reports that Ricardo Velasquez-Romero, who also goes by the name of Eulaio Miniz Orozoco, has been charged with attempted murder for the December 21 stabbing of a 61-year-old man seven times in the neck at Lola's Market.  Santa Rosa is in the sanctuary county of Sonoma, California.  The victim was hospitalized with life threatening injuries.  Velasquez-Romero has multiple prior convictions for felony drug and weapons charges.  A recent report from DHS indicates that 372,098 non-U.S. citizen offenders were removed from the United States after conviction of an aggravated felony or two or more felonies," between October 2011 and September 30, 2017.  With the exception of Fox News and the widely panned Daily Caller, no other news organization bothered to report the immigration status of this violent offender.

"Tourniquet Killer" Execution Set for Today:  The Houston murderer who became known as the "Tourniquet Killer" is scheduled to be executed this evening.  CBS News reports that the execution of Anthony Shore was postponed last October to allow an investigation into a scheme by another death row inmate to get Short to take credit for his crimes.   While he has admitted to raping and murdering Laurie Tremblay, 15, found beside a trash bin outside a Houston restaurant in 1986; Diana Rebollar, 9, abducted while walking to a neighborhood grocery store in 1994; and Dana Sanchez, 16, who disappeared in 1995 while hitchhiking to her boyfriend's home in Houston, he will be executed for the 1992 strangling of  21-year-old Maria del Carmen Estrada whose body was dumped in the drive-thru of a Dairy Queen in Houston.  Shore, a habitual sex offender, got his nickname for the way he strangled his victims to death using a rope tightened with a stick similar to a tourniquet.

Update:  The Tourniquet Killer finally paid for the four people he strangled to death at 6:28 pm Thursday night.

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