Post by cinnaroll32 on Apr 17, 2007 14:14:16 GMT -5
Carthage, TX
Police, Man Confesses to Sexually Assaulting and Killing 4 Year Old Boy
It's been revealed, the Carthage Texas man charged with sexually assaulting and murdering a 4-year-old boy is an illegal immigrant.
Carthage District attorney Danny Buck Davidson says he wants exactly what happened to 4 year old Joey Zhang Liu to happen to 27 year old Rogerio Garcia.
"I really believe there's a special place in hell reserved for people who assault children or kill them."
Robert McDaniel owns the LaFiesta restaurant next door. He remembers seeing the suspect and the child. He says Garcia should be put into the hands of the people. "They should hang him on the Carthage square and let everybody come by and get a cut at him."
On Sunday, police say Garcia confessed to sexually assaulting and strangling the 4 year old.
Around 3:30 Sunday morning his mother called 911 screaming someone had killed her child. Garcia, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, lived with the family along with Jose Garcia Monreal who is also here illegally.
Both worked at the Chengs Garden restaurant.
Garcia is being held on a $12 million bond. The DA says he doesn't want him to think about going back to Mexico. "If he were to make bond, and went back to Mexico, we have no extradition treaties with Mexico he's charged with capital murder we have the possibility of seeking the death penalty."
Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against Garcia. And even though he is here illegally, he will get the best defense Carthage tax payers can afford. As for Monreal, he's being held as a witness and an INS hold.
Filed on April 15:
People who live in the town of Carthage Texas are shocked after hearing a little boy whose family owned a popular local chinese restaurant was brutally killed.
Police say the mother of 4 year old Joey Zhang-Liu called dispatch at about 3:30 Sunday morning screaming someone killed her son.
When they arrived the found the boy was blue and the immediately began CPR but he died soon after an area hospital.
Police arrested 27 year old Rogerio Garcia who worked at the Chengs Chinese Buffet and lived at the home with the family who also owned the restaurant.
Officers say Garcia has confessed. An autopsy determined the boy had a broken right arm, bruising on his ear and jaw, contusions around his neck and was also sexually assaulted.
Another man Jose Garcia Monreal was also arrested and put on INS hold. He too lived at the home. Police say the two are both here illegally.
People who often ate at the restaurant and played with the little boy say the news is devastating.
Rogerio Garcia is charges with capital murder, both men being held at the Panola Detention Center in Carthage.
www.ksla.com/global/story.asp?s=6373107&ClientType=Printable
This is so close too home, just an hour away.
Police, Man Confesses to Sexually Assaulting and Killing 4 Year Old Boy
It's been revealed, the Carthage Texas man charged with sexually assaulting and murdering a 4-year-old boy is an illegal immigrant.
Carthage District attorney Danny Buck Davidson says he wants exactly what happened to 4 year old Joey Zhang Liu to happen to 27 year old Rogerio Garcia.
"I really believe there's a special place in hell reserved for people who assault children or kill them."
Robert McDaniel owns the LaFiesta restaurant next door. He remembers seeing the suspect and the child. He says Garcia should be put into the hands of the people. "They should hang him on the Carthage square and let everybody come by and get a cut at him."
On Sunday, police say Garcia confessed to sexually assaulting and strangling the 4 year old.
Around 3:30 Sunday morning his mother called 911 screaming someone had killed her child. Garcia, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, lived with the family along with Jose Garcia Monreal who is also here illegally.
Both worked at the Chengs Garden restaurant.
Garcia is being held on a $12 million bond. The DA says he doesn't want him to think about going back to Mexico. "If he were to make bond, and went back to Mexico, we have no extradition treaties with Mexico he's charged with capital murder we have the possibility of seeking the death penalty."
Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against Garcia. And even though he is here illegally, he will get the best defense Carthage tax payers can afford. As for Monreal, he's being held as a witness and an INS hold.
Filed on April 15:
People who live in the town of Carthage Texas are shocked after hearing a little boy whose family owned a popular local chinese restaurant was brutally killed.
Police say the mother of 4 year old Joey Zhang-Liu called dispatch at about 3:30 Sunday morning screaming someone killed her son.
When they arrived the found the boy was blue and the immediately began CPR but he died soon after an area hospital.
Police arrested 27 year old Rogerio Garcia who worked at the Chengs Chinese Buffet and lived at the home with the family who also owned the restaurant.
Officers say Garcia has confessed. An autopsy determined the boy had a broken right arm, bruising on his ear and jaw, contusions around his neck and was also sexually assaulted.
Another man Jose Garcia Monreal was also arrested and put on INS hold. He too lived at the home. Police say the two are both here illegally.
People who often ate at the restaurant and played with the little boy say the news is devastating.
Rogerio Garcia is charges with capital murder, both men being held at the Panola Detention Center in Carthage.
www.ksla.com/global/story.asp?s=6373107&ClientType=Printable
This is so close too home, just an hour away.