Thread: Illegal Immigrant Admits to Killing Neighbor

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Illegal Immigrant Admits to Killing Neighbor
Friday, March 17, 2006


(Friday, March 17)
A man from Hondoras has plead guilty to stabbing his neighbor 37 times using three different knives.

Police say it happened on June 10th of last year in the Milton home of the victim, Carlye Snyder.

Friedl Omar Rodriguez Fuentes pled guilty to criminal homicide. That includes first, second, and third degree murder, and all of the other charges against him.

A hearing is scheduled for April 17th to determine which degree of criminal homicide Fuentes is guilty of.

The hearing is expected to last about three days.

The first and second degree murder charges carry life sentences and the third degree murder charge carries a sentence of up to 40 years.

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Judge to issue decision today in Fuentes case
By Eric Mayes
The Daily Item
May 12, 2006
SUNBURY — Medical experts disagreed Thursday on whether Fredil O. Fuentes was capable of making a conscious choice to kill Carly Snyder.

The sentence imposed on Mr. Fuentes depends on his intent at the time of the murder and whether or not he planned, no matter how brief the time frame, to kill her.

He confessed in March to killing Ms. Snyder. She was found on the kitchen floor of her Milton home on June 10, stabbed more than 37 times with at least four different knives. Mr. Fuentes told the court Wednesday that he killed her in a drug-induced frenzy after hours of smoking pot and crack cocaine. Taking a break from his smoking, he said, he went to his front porch where Ms. Snyder allegedly offered him the use of her phone. When he went to her door to tell her he didn't need it, she slashed his hand with a knife, he said. Enraged and fueled by drugs he killed her.

Prosecutors speculated that he visited Ms. Snyder's home for less innocent reasons, probably because he was sexually attracted to her and that he killed her because he was angry when she cut him. Worried that any trouble might lead to his arrest and deportation, District Attorney Anthony Rosini said, Mr. Fuentes, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, made the choice to kill her.

Thursday's arguments wrapped up a hearing to decide if Mr. Fuentes was guilty of first-, second- or third-degree murder. It's now up to Northumberland County President Judge Robert B. Sacavage to decide. He will weigh two weeks worth of testimony and deliver his decision at noon today in Courtroom 1 at the Northumberland County Courthouse.

Psychiatrist Dr. Ilan Levinson said Mr. Fuentes was so high on a mixture of marijuana and crack cocaine that he was not capable of reaching a conscious decision to kill.

"I determined with reasonable medical certainty that he was incapable of forming intent to kill," Mr. Levinson said. "He had to be aware of what he was doing, wanting to do it (and) know what he was doing."

Given his long history of almost daily marijuana use, frequent cocaine use and a binge combining both that lasted several hours on the day of the murder, Mr. Levinson said, it was likely that Mr. Fuentes got caught up in events after Ms. Snyder slashed him with a knife.

"The situation escalated very, very rapidly and with him not thinking clearing he committed the crime," he said.

Calling a toxicology report inconclusive, Dr. Levinson also refuted a finding of no evidence of cocaine in Mr. Fuentes' system. A blood test found evidence of marijuana but not cocaine. Because the test was not done until eight months after the blood was drawn and the sample was stored improperly, Dr. Levinson said, the results were invalid.

"The lack of cocaine means nothing," he said.

A second expert disagreed.

"The facts in this case, in my opinion, don't support a conclusion that Mr. Fuentes was unable to plan," said psychiatrist Dr. Neil Blumberg.

Going a step further, he told the court that in his opinion Mr. Fuentes was not even using cocaine on the night of the murder.

"There was no objective evidence to support that there was cocaine in his system," he said.

Mr. Fuentes' behavior, Dr. Blumberg said, as outlined in his written statement to police and corroborated by his wife, was not consistent with someone who had just used crack. The drug is a stimulant but the statement noted that Mr. Fuentes took a nap. He added that Mr. Fuentes' behavior before and after the murder indicated that he was thinking clearly. Mr. Fuentes said in court that he remembered punching Ms. Snyder, taking the knife from her, washing his hands after the stabbing, locking the front door of her house, leaving by the back door and hiding his blood-spattered clothes.

"It's my opinion to a reasonable degree of certainty Mr. Rodriguez-Fuentes was capable of forming an intent to kill," Dr. Blumberg said.

Defense attorney Ed Greco, repeated his client's claim, asking for a conviction of third-degree murder because Mr. Fuentes was too high to know exactly what he was doing.

"(Drugs) led him to the point where he was incapable of controlling his actions," he said. "He was crazy on drugs that's what caused it."

Mr. Rosini was unconvinced, doubting Mr. Fuentes' entire story right down the reason he went to her house. If she had offered the use of her phone, Mr. Rosini said, she would not have cut him with a knife when he appeared at her door.

"The defendant was an unwelcome guest in this house," he said. "People do not meet guests that are welcome with a knife. If she went to get a phone why didn't she meet him at the door with a phone? It's just not realistic. It just does not meet the facts. This defendant did in fact make a conscious decision."

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Fuentes faces life behind bars
May 12, 2006
SUNBURY — Fredil O. Fuentes, 24, will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the killing of 20-year-old Carly Snyder, of Milton.

After days of testimony in a degree-of-guilt hearing that followed Mr. Fuentes’ guilty plea to an open count of homicide in the case, Northumberland County President Judge Robert B. Sacavage announced shortly after noon Friday that he considered the slaying first-degree murder.

In exchange for pleading guilty to the homicide county, prosecutors agreed to drop their efforts to get the death penalty imposed, and Mr. Fuentes agreed to allow the judge to decide his fate. Formal sentencing is set for July 31, but with the death penalty off the table, the only sentence available for a first-degree murder conviction is life in prison.

He confessed in March to killing Ms. Snyder. She was found on the kitchen floor of her Milton home on June 10, stabbed more than 37 times with at least four different knives. Mr. Fuentes told the court Wednesday that he killed her in a drug-induced frenzy after hours of smoking pot and crack cocaine. Taking a break from his smoking, he said, he went to his front porch where Ms. Snyder allegedly offered him the use of her phone. When he went to her door to tell her he didn’t need it, she slashed his hand with a knife, he said. Enraged and fueled by drugs he killed her.

Prosecutors had speculated that he probably went to Ms. Snyder’s home because he was sexually attracted to her and that he killed her because he was angry when she cut him. Worried that any trouble might lead to his arrest and deportation, District Attorney Anthony Rosini said, Mr. Fuentes, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, made the choice to kill her.

If she had offered the use of her phone, Mr. Rosini said, she would not have cut him with a knife when he appeared at her door.

“The defendant was an unwelcome guest in this house,” the district attorney said Thursday. “People do not meet guests that are welcome with a knife. If she went to get a phone why didn’t she meet him at the door with a phone? It’s just not realistic. It just does not meet the facts. This defendant did in fact make a conscious decision.”

I assume that makes the undocumented immigrant so beloved by La Raza, LULAC and so many American citizens a......

RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!

Nah!!!! Only the invading Gringo can be a racist, right.... right?

I live in the area of Pennsylvania where this occurred. The other day there was a another murder where they arrested an illegal immigrant on suspicion of committing this crime. This is a rural area where murders are unheard of. I'm glad these immigrants are bringing this diversity to our state!

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Illegal immigrant sentenced in slaying
Man gets life for stabbing neighbor
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
BY JOHN BEAUGE
For The Patriot-News
SUNBURY - An illegal immigrant has been sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his neighbor in Milton about a year ago.

Northumberland County Judge Robert B. Sacavage also sentenced Fredil Omar Fuentes, 24, to a consecutive term of 31/2 to 7 years yesterday for criminal trespass.

Fuentes pleaded guilty in March to a count of homicide, avoiding a possible death penalty. Sacavage determined the degree of guilt after hearing testimony.

Fuentes was considered a fugitive by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on June 10, 2005, when he stabbed Carly Snyder, 20, with four knives at least 37 times in the kitchen of her home.

At a previous court hearing, Fuentes testified through an interpreter that he was high on crack cocaine and marijuana and did not remember killing Snyder.

District Attorney Anthony J. Rosini used the sentencing to criticize immigrations officials, arguing that the murder would not have occurred had they kept Fuentes in custody.

A federal judge had ordered Fuentes deported after he failed to report for an immigration hearing in Philadelphia on Oct. 11, 2001. According to ICE records, Fuentes entered the country illegally in the Brownsville, Texas, area and was apprehended by the Border Patrol on Feb. 29, 2000.

The native of Honduras was released on $5,000 bail because he did not have a criminal record. The case was transferred to Philadelphia because Fuentes provided a fake Pennsylvania address, an ICE spokesman said.

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Stabber gets life plus 7 years
By John Finnerty
The Daily Item
June 27, 2006
SUNBURY — Northumberland County President Judge Robert B. Sacavage sentenced Fredil O. Fuentes, 24, to life in prison without chance of parole for the killing of 20-year-old Carly Snyder, of Milton.

In addition, Mr. Fuentes was sentenced to an additional seven years in prison on a criminal trespassing charge filed in connection with the same case.

The sentencing on Monday followed Mr. Fuentes' guilty plea to an open count of homicide for the woman's killing in a deal with prosecutors in which they agreed not to seek the death penalty.

Ms. Snyder was found on the kitchen floor of her Milton home on June 10, 2005. She'd been stabbed more than 37 times with at least four different knives. Mr. Fuentes previously told the court that he killed her in a drug-induced frenzy after hours of smoking pot and crack cocaine.

After that plea, the judge presided over a degree-of-guilt hearing, after which Judge Sacavage ruled that the killing was first-degree murder.

Prior to sentencing, Mr. Fuentes apologized to Ms. Snyder's family.

"I'm here to beg the pardon of (the Snyder) family and to apologize," Mr. Fuentes said, speaking through a translator. "In my heart, I know the perpetrator was not myself ... Had I been myself, I could never have done that. I, too, am suffering. I cannot understand how I did what I did."

Ms. Snyder's aunt, Tina Snyder, and sister, Tracy Messinger, both gave emotional statements in court before the judge handed down the sentence.

Ms. Messinger said she was 14 when her younger sister was born. When Carly was a young girl, the sisters had enjoyed a close relationship, she said. But when Carly went through her teen-aged years, they didn't spend as much time together. "I thought I would get back the Carly I was close to, but now she's gone," she said.

Tina Snyder said Carly had told friends that she didn't like the way Mr. Fuentes looked at her. The killing proved that the young woman's instincts were correct, she said. "I feel he was stalking her with his eyes," she said.

Tina Snyder said that Mr. Fuentes' account of the killing suggests that when he startled Carly, she uttered: "Oh, God."

"She called out to him and God held her in his arms," Tina Snyder said. "Carly is now with God. We'll be with her some day."

As for Mr. Fuentes, he is "evil," she said, noting that during the degree-of-guilt hearing when graphic crime scene photographs were displayed, "he showed no remorse."

District Attorney Tony Rosini called the killing "senseless and horrible," and noted that Monday, Mr. Fuentes continued to try to avoid taking responsibility for a crime he admits doing.

In addition to the sentence for the murder conviction, Mr. Fuentes was sentenced to seven years in prison on a criminal trespassing charged filed in connection with the same case. The additional seven years in prison for the criminal trespassing charge would come into play if the murder conviction were overturned on appeal.


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Wow, these are some of those family values we are so often told that they possess. I don't believe the story he told about his reasons to be there either, they just don't add up.
I'm glad the government did not just deport this time!!!! I wonder if his wife is illegal and if so will she be deported? I hope so!!!
With that drug combo, he should be normal. Crack to speed up and marijuana to come down. They should cancel each other out. J.K.

The sorry, sorry fact of the matter is this woman would be alive if this person (and I use that term loosely) had been deported when he was caught at the border. Unfortunately there are many Americans that statement applies to. The blood of American citizens is on the governments hands.

Unfortunately there are many Americans that statement applies to. The blood of American citizens is on the governments hands.

You are so right. The US govenment is complicit in this murder. I can't help but think of the couple from TN who was murdered by a drunk driver illegal. The illegal had been arrested multiple times but never deported.