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Suspect in brutal killing of mom captured in Mexico
Houston Chronicle ^ | February 2, 2006 | Monica Guzman

Posted on 02/03/2006 5:28:05 PM PST by DumpsterDiver

Nearly two years after the stabbing death of a young mother in front of her two girls, Houston police's prime suspect, Elber Ruben Vazquez has been captured in Mexico City.

Vazquez was 19 when police say he killed 26-year-old Mireya Hernandez in her southwest Houston apartment then fled the city in a red Ford Mustang.

Hernandez had 68 stab wounds when her sister found her two hours after the slaying on the morning of May 4, 2004. Hernandez's 2-year-old, Jasmine, was lying on top of her mother, kissing her slashed cheek and telling her to wake up.

Ten-month-old Monica lay nearby in her crib, covered in blood but unharmed.

Vazquez, a suspected "coyote" who smuggled Mexican immigrants across the border, lived five doors down from the Hernandez family in an apartment complex on the 6000 block of Bissonnet. Investigators believe he waited for Hernandez's husband to leave for work before talking his way into the apartment and attacking Hernandez.

Vazquez now faces a 21-month-old charge in her murder.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrantlist; mexico; murder
I'm assuming that he will be extradited.
1 posted on 02/03/2006 5:28:06 PM PST by DumpsterDiver
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To: DumpsterDiver

If he's proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, FRY HIM!!!


2 posted on 02/03/2006 5:29:21 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (John Paul Stevens for retirement)
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To: DumpsterDiver
I'm assuming that he will be extradited.

Not if he's subject to the death penalty.

3 posted on 02/03/2006 5:29:57 PM PST by Spirochete
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To: DumpsterDiver
A coyote. How much crime, disease, and social patholigy will we save ourselves if we just enforce our own borders?
4 posted on 02/03/2006 5:31:42 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: gubamyster

ping


5 posted on 02/03/2006 5:54:34 PM PST by DumpsterDiver
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To: atomicpossum

Apparently the Bush Administration is looking for more
ways to allow our southern neighbors to visit here, stay
here and play here, might as well learn spanish.


6 posted on 02/03/2006 5:54:57 PM PST by claptrap (optional tag-line under reconsideration)
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To: DumpsterDiver

21 months for murder?


7 posted on 02/03/2006 5:57:25 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..".Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity"GW Bush)
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To: atomicpossum
How much crime, disease, and social patholigy will we save ourselves if we just enforce our own borders?

The president said something about the border the other night in his SOTU address. / s

Our nation needs orderly and secure borders.

(APPLAUSE)

To meet this goal, we must have stronger immigration enforcement and border protection.

(APPLAUSE)

BUSH: And we must have a rational, humane guest worker program that rejects amnesty, allows temporary jobs for people who seek them legally, and reduces smuggling and crime at the border.

8 posted on 02/03/2006 6:01:38 PM PST by csvset
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To: TASMANIANRED
21 months for murder?

No, what the reporter was trying to say was that the guy had been wanted for murder for the 21 months prior to his capture.

9 posted on 02/03/2006 6:10:06 PM PST by DumpsterDiver
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To: DumpsterDiver
Don't bet on it. The Mexican government recently announced that it considers life imprisonment to be cruel and inhumane. They may not extradite him at all.

L

10 posted on 02/03/2006 6:11:47 PM PST by Lurker (In God I trust. Everybody else shows me their hands.)
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To: atomicpossum

"How much crime, disease, and social patholigy will we save ourselves if we just enforce our own borders?"

THANK YOU! As a lovely woman I used to work with used to say.


11 posted on 02/03/2006 6:15:57 PM PST by jocon307 (The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; A CA Guy; ...

ping


12 posted on 02/04/2006 9:39:12 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: DumpsterDiver
Good morning.

I'm hoping this means the perro who murdered his wife, my cousin, and fled to Mexico will be dragged back to our prisons. He will die if that happens.

Michael Frazier
13 posted on 02/04/2006 9:47:05 AM PST by brazzaville (no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: DumpsterDiver
No, what the reporter was trying to say was that the guy had been wanted for murder for the 21 months prior to his capture.

Obviously English is not the editor's first language.

14 posted on 02/04/2006 9:49:54 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: gubamyster
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant!


15 posted on 02/04/2006 3:19:31 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: DumpsterDiver
Were NUKES Smuggled Through Mega-Tunnel?
16 posted on 02/09/2006 2:19:38 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Thanks, that was an interesting read.


17 posted on 02/09/2006 2:31:07 PM PST by DumpsterDiver
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