Puerto Rico Brutal Murder Will be Investigated as a Hate Crime
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Hundreds of members of the LGBT community and the ACLU have taken to the streets, and lobbied the state in Puerto Rico to treat the brutal murder of 19 year old Jorge Steven López Mercado as a hate crime. They say that they want the confessed murderer, Juan A. Martínez, made an example of and that the state has a history of not following its own hate crime statutes.
The state has agreed to investigate this crime with added hate crimes enhancement.
Martinez has confessed to killing Lopez Mercado, who he picked up on the road for sex and beat and killed after discovering that the prostitute he had picked up, was actually a man in drag. Using the "gay panic" defense, Martinez says he hates homosexuals because he was sexually abused in prison on a prior conviction, for which he had just been released.
Jorge Steven López Mercado's body was found 2 weeks ago partially burned, decapitated and dismembered in a ditch. He was popular in the gay scene, and had aspirations of becoming a designer.
On Current:
http://current.com/items/91468444_gay-teen-found-dismembered-burned-and-decapita...
http://current.com/items/91468160_horrific-hate-crime-terrorizes-the-gay-communi...
More on Nuevo Dia (in Spanish):
http://www.elnuevodia.com/XStatic/endi/template/content.aspx?se=nota&id=6411...
More on Primea Hora (in Spanish):
http://current.com/http://www.primerahora.com/diario/noticia/policia/noticias/co...
More on Towleroad:
http://current.com/http://www.towleroad.com/2009/11/man-arrested-in-horrific-mur...
More on Boy in Bushwick:
http://boyinbushwick.blogspot.com/2009/11/puerto-rican-authorities-agree-to.html
Photo Credit: Primera Hora
The state has agreed to investigate this crime with added hate crimes enhancement.
Martinez has confessed to killing Lopez Mercado, who he picked up on the road for sex and beat and killed after discovering that the prostitute he had picked up, was actually a man in drag. Using the "gay panic" defense, Martinez says he hates homosexuals because he was sexually abused in prison on a prior conviction, for which he had just been released.
Jorge Steven López Mercado's body was found 2 weeks ago partially burned, decapitated and dismembered in a ditch. He was popular in the gay scene, and had aspirations of becoming a designer.
On Current:
http://current.com/items/91468444_gay-teen-found-dismembered-burned-and-decapita...
http://current.com/items/91468160_horrific-hate-crime-terrorizes-the-gay-communi...
More on Nuevo Dia (in Spanish):
http://www.elnuevodia.com/XStatic/endi/template/content.aspx?se=nota&id=6411...
More on Primea Hora (in Spanish):
http://current.com/http://www.primerahora.com/diario/noticia/policia/noticias/co...
More on Towleroad:
http://current.com/http://www.towleroad.com/2009/11/man-arrested-in-horrific-mur...
More on Boy in Bushwick:
http://boyinbushwick.blogspot.com/2009/11/puerto-rican-authorities-agree-to.html
Photo Credit: Primera Hora
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Brazil617MA
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I hope he dies in jail !
- 4 months ago
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Brazil617MA
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UrbanGypsy
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All that thug had to do was say "Oh your a dude? No thanks".. Instead, being the thug and criminal that he was, he resorted to violence.
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UrbanGypsy
