Rodolfo Godinez: A Job You Wouldn't Do

How much of this disgusting nonsense do we have to read before our lame politicians start doing something about it? No doubt you've heard about the crime.

McCarthy called Godinez a "principal player" in the attack, which occurred last Saturday night as the four friends were hanging out behind the Mount Vernon School. The attackers announced a robbery, shot Natasha Aeriel, then marched the others to a wall, where they shot each of them once in the back of the head.

Hightower also had knife wounds to her face and arm, which authorities say may have been inflicted by a machete.

Godinez has lived on Midland Avenue and Manor Drive in Newark, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement records indicated he may have also been in the country illegally. Rodolfo Antonio Godinez Gomez entered the U.S. from Nicaragua on Oct. 24, 1992. He was ordered deported on May 5, 1993, but it isn't clear if he ever left the country, according to Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontura.

"It seems to me that he was illegal," he said tonight.

Godinez was first arrested as a juvenile on June 21, 1999 in South Orange for robbery which was downgraded to theft for which he got 18 months probation. In September 2002, he was arrested in Irvington for aggravated assault, robbery and weapons possession. He was indicted but its not clear what happened after that. In April 2003, he was arrested for robbery in Newark which was downgraded to theft and got 18 months probation, Essex County records show.

Authorities have been arresting and identifying the alleged attackers since getting their first big break in the case: lifting a fingerprint from a Colt 45 beer bottle that was left at the crime scene. They matched the print to Carranza, whom Natasha Aeriel identified in a photo array from her hospital bed. While searching for Carranza, they came across the 15-year-old Newark boy, who admitted his role in the crime and named other accomplices, the law enforcement sources said.

Near Godinez's home on Midland Avenue yesterday, neighbors said it was not uncommon to see him sitting on the stoop of the pale red brick house where he rented a second floor apartment for $975 per month with his mother, Gloria.

He would sit with friends, hanging out, smoking cigarettes, they said. But since the shootings the group has been out of sight. Officers, however, have made several visits to the property over the last several days.

Comments

[eliXelx]

$975 a month??? What was he working at if he was illegal, that could possibly give him that much money FOR RENT??

[Dan Riehl]

$975 a month???

That's cheap for Northern NJ - and you'll likely find it was also the precise amount payable through tax dollar supported rent assistance programs like welfare. I think they call it "a scam" ... on us.

[templar knight]

Maybe something will finally get done, since black people are now being murdered by illegals. When the victims were white, well, who cares?

[Phoenix]

This crime disturbs me so much. I can understand robbery and I can understand premeditated murder with a motive, but this one defies reason. It would be 'understandable' if these thugs just robbed the kids, but they lined them up with decision and killed them as they did. Was that part an afterthought just for fun? And I know classic hits are shots to the head, but these are not hit men. I don't even want to think what influenced them to kill them this way. My system can't take it.

[bloodrage bob]

since liberals and their pet media are so hung up on numbers - specifically, the total number of dead soldiers in iraq - why doesn't anyone add up the numbers of US citizens killed by wetbacks over the last 1,5, & 10 years?

between murders, manslaughters, emergency room deaths caused by overloaded ER's swamped with uninsured illegals presenting themselves for (free) treatment, and DUI deaths, i'd be willing to bet the 'wetback toll' is pretty close to the 'iraq war toll', or even higher. the fact that the MSM *doesn't* want to do this is just proof that it's a good/smart/clever/proper thing to do.

numbers don't lie, right?

[templar knight]

bb, I wouldn't put it exactly the way you do, but yes, the numbers of Americans killed, murdered and maimed by illegal aliens put the numbers in Iraq to shame. But a liberal never really cares about Americans, per se, he just cares about the citizens of the World, especially the Leftists, Muslims and the 'downtrodden'. The rest of us, not so much.

[seekeronos]

I'll have to agree w/ Templar -- the minute they start picking on the Negroes, the NAACP and Al Sharpton and all the other race-baiters will scream for justice. After all, who really cares about some fair-skinned woman or girl is brutally savaged or murdered by those wonderful Aztlani Warriors from south of the Rio Grande? After all, they are nothing but the white spawn of evil imperialistas who thoughtlessly slaughtered millions of Aztec braves and stole Aztec land (which as you know, extends from the Yucatan clear on up to Manitoba!!)

But no, if they lay a hand upon a dark Nubian princess, woe unto them, for lawsuits shall abound upon someone, and the race cards shall come forth from the deck of racially charged vengeance!

*spit*

It's enough to make anyone sick, there is too much race-hate in our land.

Justice at the end of a rope used to suffice for keeping most peoples' wicked ideas at bay.

Unfortunately, we are too "enlightened" to return to the older, proven methods of executing justice in our midst against aggressors.

[Karty]

Yes it sad to see that young lives were taken but its funny how black people wanna use names and racial slurs and talk in a negative way about hispanics there is bad and good people no matter the race color ethnic backround or whatever come to DC in the summer every summer an average of 15 to 20 latino inmigrants are slain and robbed by afro americans young afro americans check it out online do your research if u want but in no way possible i will talk negative about a whole race just because this young black men decide to make a wrong decision its obvious that whoever is been posting comments under this news is a bunch of ignorant idiots with no level of intelligence what so ever to make the comments they made. there is bad and good every where no matter race color or ethnic backround is life!!

[ef]

This sort of situation seems like it's ripe for a wrongful death lawsuit against the city or other tier of goverment that had an oppurtunity to get rid of this guy. I imagine a few multimillion dollar payouts would motivate a city to be less accomodating.