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Killers in Brooklyn Hate Slay Each Get 37 Years in Prison
The two men convicted of beating and killing Ecuadorian immigrant José Sucuzhañay in a 2008 Brooklyn hate crime were each sentenced to 37 years in prison yesterday, The New York Times reports:
A 30-year-old man who confessed to the 2008 baseball-bat murder of a 31-year-old Ecuadorean immigrant by saying, “So I killed someone — that makes me a bad guy?” was sentenced on Thursday to more than 30 years in prison.
The defendant, Keith Phoenix, was convicted in May of attacking José O. Sucuzhañay on a street corner in Bushwick, Brooklyn, after Mr. Phoenix and another man, Hakim Scott, 27, jumped out of their sport utility vehicle, yelling slurs at Mr. Sucuzhañay and his brother, Romel Sucuzhañay.
Prosecutors said that the two assailants pounced on the Sucuzhañays because they were Hispanic and because Mr. Phoenix and Mr. Scott suspected they were gay.
The killing occurred in December 2008, roughly a month after another Ecuadorian immigrant, Marcelo Lucero, was killed in a hate attack in Patchogue.
Tags : brooklyn, hate crime, jose sucuzhanay, marcelo lucero
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