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Looking Over The Notes On Marcelo Lucero Killing

Posted January 20, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.

Ted Hesson has begun posting the confessions and detective notes in the Marcelo Lucero murder case. I was just reading the notes from the detective interview with the accused killer Jeff Conroy. They illustrate the problem with the reporting of hate crimes in Suffolk. Here is the detectives notes on what Conroy said:
“I almost got arrested before. Same shit. Mexican hopping. The guy didn’t want to do nothing. Yeah the cops were there. ...We knocked him out cold. ...I think it was last Monday”.
Let us look closely at these 26 words.
Obviously, Conroy admits to having engaged in these activities before, but we all knew that. Elsewhere he talks about other attacks. But this attack is extremely important. It took place days before the Lucero killing. The unnamed vicitm is described as a “Mexican”, but we know that the generic term for Latinos in that community is “Mexicans”.
The attack by three young men was brutal enough that the victim was “knocked out cold”. Elsewhere Conroy identifies Pacheco as delivering the knockout punch. But, don’t assume that it was only one punch that took the “Mexican” down.
Conroy says that the “cops were there”, seeing the after-effects of an attack that resulted in a concussion that caused the victim to lose consciousness. None of the young men was arrested, nor, as far as we know, was a report even filed in the attack.
There is some ambiguity about the phrase “the guy didn’t want to do nothing”. From its position in the notes, it appears to refer to the victim and it may mean that he didn’t want to fight, or that after the fight, he didn’t want to report the crime. If that were the case, one wonders why the police, seeing a man seriously injured after an attack by three young men, didn’t take further action.
Had the young men been taken into custody, perhaps Marcelo Lucero would be alive today.

Tags : hate crimes, marcelo lucero, suffolk, suffolk police

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