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Conroy Admitted to Stabbing, Friend and Fellow Defendant Says

Posted March 29, 2010 by Ted Hesson
Categories: Hate Watch

“It’s when you go out and look for Hispanics to beat up,” Nicholas Hausch testified today in the murder trial of Jeffrey Conroy. Hausch was describing “beaner hopping,” a vicious sport allegedly practiced by Hausch and six other teens, including the defendant.

Nicholas Hausch took the witness stand for the prosecution in the trial of Conroy, who is accused of stabbing and killing Ecuadorian immigrant Marcerlo Lucero in a November 2008 hate crime.

Hausch pleaded guilty in November 2009 to charges related to the attack, including first-degree gang assault. On that charge alone, he faces five to twenty-five years.

On direct examination today, Hausch testified to any possible plea deal with the district attorney’s office:

“Was anything told to you at all about how much prison time you would get in exchange for your testimony here today?” assistant district attorney Megan O’Donnell asked Hausch. “No,” he answered.

After the confrontation with Lucero and Angel Loja on the night of November 8, 2008, Hausch said that Conroy admitted to Hausch that he had stabbed Lucero. “We were telling him to throw the knife,” Hausch said. “He didn’t; he said that he washed it off in a puddle.”

During his testimony, Hausch recounted several attacks against Latinos that he and the other defendants—including Conroy—had perpetrated.

Aside from the admission regarding the knife, however, Hausch remembered little else of Conroy’s specific role in the attack against Lucero, or in any other attacks against Latinos.

Assistant district attorney Megan O’Donnell will begin her re-direct at 2:30pm. I’ll have a more complete update later today.

Tags : hate crimes, jeffrey conroy, marcelo lucero, nicholas hausch

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