Posted on 11/26/2007 11:07:55 PM PST by Reeses
An Oakland man charged Monday with murdering two children in a Thanksgiving night hit-and-run crash told his 17-year-old nephew moments before impact that he didn't care if he or the teenager died as a result of his speeding, a prosecutor said.
Carmelo Salas, 28, was charged with murder in the deaths of Stephanie Cervantez, 14, and her 4-year-old cousin, Jacklin Munguia-Herrera, for allegedly running a stop sign in East Oakland and crashing his Ford Expedition sport utility vehicle into a Ford Mustang carrying the victims about 7:20 p.m. Thursday.
... Salas told his nephew that he wasn't afraid to die and that he would take his nephew with him, Chu said. Salas was going as fast as 80 mph in a 25-mph zone, and the nephew warned him seconds before impact that the Mustang was approaching, the prosecutor said.
...Salas was also charged with kidnapping his nephew to ride with him in the SUV, Chu said. The nephew feared for his safety because he knew Salas could be "volatile" when he was drinking, Chu said. Police said the nephew helped identify the suspect.
...Salas is also the subject of a hold by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement because he is in the United States illegally from Mexico, authorities said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
So isn’t this guy in line to get one of those SF id’s they are handing out? So he’d be semi-legal?
over and over....
We need this guy like we need cancer!?
o great. Maybe they will ship him back . . . he will reenter a day later and do this to someone else in San Diego or LA. Joy.
[Salas is also the subject of a hold by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement because he is in the United States illegally from Mexico, authorities said.]
... Then no-one will care anymore.
One of geraldo’s boys.
The Rats must be proud.
This is just damn sad. WHY do we continue to allow our country to be overrun by the scum of the earth when we could attract the best and brightest immigrants on the planet? I just don’t understand it!
>>.. Salas told his nephew that he wasn’t afraid to die
Put him in the electric chair. He won’t mind.
My Uncle was killed by a man under almost the exact situation except for the being held by Ice part the man walked out of the hospital and disappeared a few months earlier before my Uncle he Crippled a woman in Indiana arrested then he walked away .... under smelly conditions These guys get away with murder and were supposed to accept it ? Nope sorry ...
obviously this would’ve been prevented if he was allowed to have a driver’s license
As must el Presidente Jorge.
Thanks, WH, DHS, US Chamber of Commerce, and RAT congress!!! Another example of those “hard working types with family values that don’t stop south of the Rio Grande” you all are so in love with. Never bloody mind about US citizens and legal immigrants who get murdered, raped, etc., just keep those doors open and yell “come on, down”!!!
Another ‘Macho’ man......
Mexico president says ‘culture of machismo’ still strong
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/26/america/LA-GEN-Mexico-Machismo.php
Nov 26, 2007
MEXICO CITY: President Felipe Calderon said Monday said that despite the passage of anti-discrimination laws, millions of women suffer from workplace bias and physical and psychological abuse due to an enduring “culture of machismo” in Mexico.
“As a citizen, as a husband, as a father, as president, I am worried and indignant over the mistreatment millions of Mexican women still receive,” Calderon said during an event on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Last year alone, the president said, more than 30 million Mexican women suffered some type of violence, while more than 80 percent of women who were murdered were killed in their own homes.
Earlier this year, Mexico enacted a law obligating federal and local authorities to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women. Yet only a handful of states have formally adopted it, Calderon said.
At fault? A culture still dominated by “the false premise of subordination, submission and even inferiority of women with respect to men,” he said. “This is a cultural obstacle that we have to reverse.”
Mexico has had some success chipping away at machismo, passing the anti-violence measure and a law allowing same-sex civil unions in Mexico City. Women have also made advances in business and politics, and on Monday, Calderon signed a law aimed at fighting the trafficking and enslavement of women and children.
But he acknowledged the country has a ways to go, saying, “There have been advances but ... there is much to be done.”
My soon-to-be ex-MIL is from Mexico and raised her daughter to be Mexican and to manipulate her husband. While it works in Mexico on Mexican "men", it is an abusive way to treat an American man.
Send them all back to Mexico to be Mexican. Let God sort them out!
Shame this didnt happen in texas where they would certainly give him the needle.
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