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Final Witness: Conroy Confessed To Stabbing Marcelo Lucero

Posted April 5, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.
Categories: Hate Watch

Newsday reports that the prosecution has finished the direct examination of its final witness. Here are excerpts from Newsday’s report:

Calmly and with a “matter-of-fact” attitude, Jeffrey Conroy confessed to fatally stabbing Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero and then trying to wash the blood off his knife in a pool of water, a Suffolk detective testified Monday.

Det. James McLeer, of the Suffolk homicide squad, is the last witness to be called by prosecutors in the trial of Conroy…

McLeer, the lead investigator in the case, testified that during a 40-minute interview, Conroy told him about the night he and six friends went looking to assault Hispanic immigrants. Conroy said his friends began the fight with Lucero and Angel Lojas. Lucero took off his belt and began swinging it around, hitting Conroy in the head, he testified.

It was then that Conroy took out the black handled knife he carried with him for months and went toward Lucero, McLeer said.

“I continued to run toward him and stabbed him once in the shoulder or chest,” Conroy said, according to his written statement to police, which was introduced into evidence. After stabbing Lucero, Conroy told his friend and co-defendant Nicholas Hausch, “Oh—, I’m—. I stabbed him.”

Conroy went on to tell McLeer about how he tried to wash the blood off his knife, but then gave it to a police officer who arrived minutes later and told the officer what he had done. Conroy also drew a sketch of the crime scene that included a stick figure person and the words “got stabbed by me,” according to McLeer.

Conroy also told McLeer of another case before Lucero’s killing in which he and his friends attacked a Hispanic immigrant in the street, McLeer said.

Read Conroy’s confession, admitted into evidence today.

Tags : hate crimes, hate watch, jeffrey conroy, marcelo lucero

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