Monday, November 17, 2008

Jury Closer to Decision in Patchogue Hate Crime Case

A grand jury neared a decision Friday on whether to upgrade charges in the fatal stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant whose killing has prompted widespread outrage and forced the chief executive of Suffolk County to apologize for calling it a “one-day story.”

Police arrested seven Patchogue-area teens for the stabbing death of 37-year-old Marcelo Lucero, an immigrant from Ecuador who came to the United States 16 years ago, on Saturday, October 8 around midnight.

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Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy will give a televised address on race Tuesday night at 7 p.m. on News 12 Long Island.

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