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Baby Held Hostage, Stabbed in Standoff (w Prev. Deported Alien)
ABCNewsGo ^ | 06-26-2004 | AP

Posted on 6/26/2004, 11:13:09 PM by NewRomeTacitus

ST. GEORGE, Utah June 26, 2004 — A man who took a baby hostage stabbed the infant during a standoff with police before officers shot and wounded the man in the hip.

The baby was flown to a Salt Lake City hospital Friday night with stab wounds to some internal organs, but was expected to live, St. George police spokesman Craig Harding said Saturday.

Police identified the suspect as Valentin S. Echevarria, and said the child was believed to be his girlfriend's. Officials were not sure if the child was his.

The child's mother ran to a neighbor and called police Friday night, saying she had been stabbed in the hand by a man who still had her baby in her home.

Officers negotiated with the man who was in the country illegally in Spanish, but he did not drop the knife and continued to threaten the child.

When officers saw Echevarria stab the baby, they tried to subdue him with the beanbag rounds, then bullets, Harding said.

"It stopped him from doing what he was doing and we were able to grab the child and rush it to medical services," Harding said.

An officer grabbed the child and ran it to a waiting ambulance. Harding believed the child is a boy around 6-7 months old, but wasn't certain about the gender.

Echevarria, 28, had been deported recently, Harding said. He was treated and released for a gunshot wound to the hip, then taken to a jail and held on charges of aggravated attempted murder and aggravated kidnapping, Harding said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: aliens; depravity; illegalimmigration
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Valentin S. Echevarria, 28, is shown in this police booking photo, June 25, 2004. Echevarria is is the Washington County Jail and is being held on charges of aggravated attempted murder and aggravated kidnapping, for stabbing a baby he was holding hostage, in St, George, Utah, police said. (AP Photo/St. George police photo)
1 posted on 6/26/2004, 11:13:09 PM by NewRomeTacitus
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To: gubamyster; HiJinx; Libertarianize the GOP; B4Ranch; hedgetrimmer; longtermmemmory; spodefly; ...

Don't worry, compadre; Senor Cannon will help you. He's your amigo!


2 posted on 6/26/2004, 11:16:32 PM by NewRomeTacitus (Don't make me come down there and put panties on your head.)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

Being one who thinks tales of prisoners' exacting justice on pedarests and other sociopaths are apocryphal, I do hope they are true in this case. It would be nice to ship Mr. Echevarria's body home minus a few pounds of flesh.


3 posted on 6/26/2004, 11:18:49 PM by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

Late-term Abortionist For Hire

4 posted on 6/26/2004, 11:23:08 PM by Joe 6-pack ("We deal in hard calibers and hot lead." - Roland Deschaines)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

Real great family values. That gets said over and over --- no matter that the evidence isn't all that strong for that.


5 posted on 6/26/2004, 11:25:12 PM by FITZ
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To: NewRomeTacitus
too bad the police in Utah are bad shots! a couple of center mass shots should have taken care of the additional cost the tax payers will be paying for the next 20 plus years
6 posted on 6/26/2004, 11:25:29 PM by martinidon ("who would Saddam and Osama vote for in this years election...")
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To: martinidon

That is one ugly piece of work.


7 posted on 6/26/2004, 11:26:50 PM by TASMANIANRED (What do they call children in Palestine? Unexploded ordinance)
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To: NewRomeTacitus
too bad the police in Utah are bad shots! a couple of center mass shots should have taken care of the additional cost the tax payers will be paying for the next 20 plus years
8 posted on 6/26/2004, 11:27:41 PM by martinidon ("who would Saddam and Osama vote for in this years election...")
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To: TASMANIANRED

How does a guy that ugly and mean looking get a girlfriend?


9 posted on 6/26/2004, 11:29:23 PM by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

I always wonder that same thing whenever I see one of these pieces of manure.


10 posted on 6/26/2004, 11:41:41 PM by EggsAckley (........"John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute".........)
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To: martinidon; FITZ; Joe 6-pack; thegreatbeast
"Harding believed the child is a boy around 6-7 months old, but wasn't certain about the gender."

Bad thought! I hope that uncertainty didn't have anything to do with the wounding. Aaargh!!!

11 posted on 6/26/2004, 11:55:58 PM by NewRomeTacitus (Don't make me come down there and put panties on your head.)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

The poor guy is just here to do the jobs Americans don't want to do,like stabbing babies!!!



12 posted on 6/27/2004, 12:08:44 AM by Mears
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To: NewRomeTacitus

Let me guess-fox wants him released immediately.


13 posted on 6/27/2004, 12:12:51 AM by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

"Authorities announced that the baby-stabber would be released on bail at noon sharp, at the corner of Pico and Alvarado."


14 posted on 6/27/2004, 12:20:57 AM by Nick Danger (doo waddie diddy diddy dum diddy doo)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

This is the garbage that republican Orin Hatch wants to cozy up to.

Well, in that case we need to make sure that this perv can cozy up to hatch!


15 posted on 6/27/2004, 12:23:54 AM by steplock (http://www.gohotsprings.com)
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"Well, in that case we need to make sure that this perv can cozy up to hatch!"

Hatch is so far out of touch he doesn't know what he's saying half the time. He's been in the 'elite' senate way to long.

16 posted on 6/27/2004, 12:27:21 AM by blam
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To: blam
You wrote: "He's been in the 'elite' senate way to long"

Unfortunately, this is true of so many senators.

17 posted on 6/27/2004, 12:35:06 AM by kdot
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To: NewRomeTacitus
Harding said. He was treated and released for a gunshot wound to the hip,

With American taxpayers paying the bill.

then taken to a jail and held on charges of aggravated attempted murder and aggravated kidnapping

Where he will meet with Democrat operatives who will register him to vote.

I wonder if Senator Hatch will take pity on this guy and hire him as a babysitter. After all, Americans dont want that job.

18 posted on 6/27/2004, 12:38:03 AM by lowbridge ("You are an American. You are my brother. I would die for you." -Kurdish Sergeant)
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To: TASMANIANRED
That is one ugly piece of work.

In every sense of the word.

19 posted on 6/27/2004, 12:38:33 AM by DumpsterDiver ("No one is above the law in Los Angeles." Mayor James Hahn )
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To: kdot
"Unfortunately, this is true of so many senators."

Most of them IMO. They have so many perks and are so removed from everyday life I bet they don't even wipe their on asses anymore.

20 posted on 6/27/2004, 12:40:02 AM by blam
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