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A group of Florida teens could face hate crime charges stemming from a murder they committed during a “game” where they targeted Hispanic immigrants to rob, police in Jupiter said.
Onesimo Marcelino Lopez-Ramos, 18, was found dead, his head bashed in white a large white rock, early April 18, cops said.
Three teens, David Harris, 19, Austin Taggart, 19 and Jesse Harris, 18, allegedly targeted Lopez-Ramos in a game of “Guat hunting,” during which the hatemongers stalked and robbed people of Guatemalan descent, according to an arrest report.
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The victim’s brother ran off and called cops. When he returned to the scene, his brother was dead.
After the murder, David Harris, who had blood on his hands, told Taggart he’d been “Guat hunting” as he laughed, WPBF reported.
Fla. teens murdered immigrant in Guat hunting game cops - NY Daily News
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A judge ruled Thursday that three teenagers will be tried as adults in a rock-throwing incident last summer that severely harmed an Ohio schoolteacher who watched the daylong pretrial hearing as she wore a plastic helmet to protect her still healing injuries.
Judge Michael Sholley said he was not willing to put them back into the juvenile system, where they would age out in less than three years, when an adult could get as much as 25 years for the most serious charges they face. Now 18, they were 17 last July when a rock was dropped from an Interstate 80 overpass and crushed the head of Sharon Budd of Uniontown, Ohio.
Budd said she agreed with the judge's decision and noted she never saw defendants Keefer McGee, Dylan Lahr or Tyler Porter look her in the eye.
The court proceedings were "saddening and sickening," said Budd, who faces a seventh surgery in the coming months. "It's hard to hear all that. I just think that when you're 17 or 18 years old, you know consequences of your actions."
3 Teens to Be Tried as Adults in Rock Maiming of Teacher - ABC News
A group of Florida teens could face hate crime charges stemming from a murder they committed during a “game” where they targeted Hispanic immigrants to rob, police in Jupiter said.
Onesimo Marcelino Lopez-Ramos, 18, was found dead, his head bashed in white a large white rock, early April 18, cops said.
Three teens, David Harris, 19, Austin Taggart, 19 and Jesse Harris, 18, allegedly targeted Lopez-Ramos in a game of “Guat hunting,” during which the hatemongers stalked and robbed people of Guatemalan descent, according to an arrest report.
<snip>
The victim’s brother ran off and called cops. When he returned to the scene, his brother was dead.
After the murder, David Harris, who had blood on his hands, told Taggart he’d been “Guat hunting” as he laughed, WPBF reported.
Fla. teens murdered immigrant in Guat hunting game cops - NY Daily News
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A judge ruled Thursday that three teenagers will be tried as adults in a rock-throwing incident last summer that severely harmed an Ohio schoolteacher who watched the daylong pretrial hearing as she wore a plastic helmet to protect her still healing injuries.
Judge Michael Sholley said he was not willing to put them back into the juvenile system, where they would age out in less than three years, when an adult could get as much as 25 years for the most serious charges they face. Now 18, they were 17 last July when a rock was dropped from an Interstate 80 overpass and crushed the head of Sharon Budd of Uniontown, Ohio.
Budd said she agreed with the judge's decision and noted she never saw defendants Keefer McGee, Dylan Lahr or Tyler Porter look her in the eye.
The court proceedings were "saddening and sickening," said Budd, who faces a seventh surgery in the coming months. "It's hard to hear all that. I just think that when you're 17 or 18 years old, you know consequences of your actions."
3 Teens to Be Tried as Adults in Rock Maiming of Teacher - ABC News
