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Gonzalez-Pacheco's Friends and Family Mourn

While questions still surround whose bullet is responsible for the death of Officer Whitson, State Police have also not revealed which officer shot Rogelio Gonzalez-Pacheco. Tonight those close to Pacheco are speaking out about what happened on Vine Street Tuesday morning.

Family members did tell WBKO that gonzalez-Pacheco was tased by Bowling Green Police officers before shots were fired, but the taser didn’t stick. But Pacheco’s relatives tell us even if he was in this country as an illegal alien, to them, he is still family.

“I said ‘I love you’ he said ‘I love you Mommy, I’ll be praying for you’ and that’s the last words he said to me,”
Angie Calix, Rogelio’s girlfriend says. Rogelio and Angie had been dating for eight months.

“Once we became close, we never could be seperated... until now,” Calix sobs.

Angie has three children from a previous marriage who Rogilio adored, but lately she hadn’t seen much of her long-term boyfriend.

He’d become distant after finding that he would soon be out of a job and without a place to live. Angie says the bad news didn’t stop there though. He soon learned his mother was very sick and in a Mexican hospital.

“His heart was in so many places. In mexico, here with me and with his family,” Calix explains.

Angie says the money he made as a farm hand was sent to his family in Mexico and that he became worried about how he’d help out with bills, but he was never violent toward others.

Angie nor Rogelio’s brothers can explain why he was waving knives the day he died.

“It was not like him at all. He was a kind, giving person. He’d give me the last penny he had to take care of me and my kids,” Calix explains.

Angie says his illegal status shouldn’t be the focus of the tragedy. Two lives are lost and many quesitons still remain.

“We all have a heart no matter what color our skin is. He came here for a better life and he lost his,” Calix says.

Gonzalez-Pacheco’s body is currently at Burnam and Son Mortuary where the family is planning a visitation. Details have not yet been released but they did tell us they’re trying to bury him in Mexico.
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The Court System & Illegal Aliens
Updated: 8:49 PM Nov 2, 2006
Lauren Hanson


According to records obtained from the Warren County Justice Center, Rogelio Gonzalez-Pacheco had an arrest record for DUI in 2003. He also had citations for having a fake ID, and not having a license or insurance. He was also an illegal alien.

Warren Circuit Court Judge Steve Wilson says being an undocumented worker is not illegal under the state law, because it's a federal offense.

Judge Wilson says when undocumented workers enter the courtroom, there are two choices, send them to jail for their offense or release them.

"If they're released, the INS or the federal government would have to at that time pick them up and have deportation. If they do not do that, they would have to be released," said Judge Wilson.

Judge Wilson says when he was the Warren County Commonwealth Attorney, he noticed if the undocumented person committed a felony the federal government would begin the deportation process. He says if it was a minor offense, they usually were not deported.

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