Thread: "Honduran National" kills boy with ax

No mention of his illegal alien status, but more sympathy for the perp than the victim

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/conte ... 7_COX.html

Questions surround ax slaying of boy, 9
By DOUG NURSE, YOLANDA RODRIGUEZ
Cox News Service
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Three children were playing in the parking lot of Chastain Apartments early Monday evening when a red car with the wobbly wheel drove through.

Jordin Paulder, a 9-year-old boy with chubby cheeks, called out to the car's passengers to tell them of the bad tire.

Jordin didn't mean to insult anybody, he just thought they should know, witnesses told police.

But the car stopped. A man got out and slammed an ax into Jordin's face. Emergency workers were afraid to remove the ax during the helicopter flight to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite hospital, where Jordin died.

As rescuers tried to save Jordin's life, police officers tried to question a man about the attack at the apartment complex.

That man, Santos Benigno Cabrera Borjas, 21, fought with police, authorities said, and broke an officer's arm in the struggle.

An officer shot and killed Cabrera Borjas.

What would prompt someone to attack a boy with an ax? And did police shoot the right man?

"It's just an ugly scene, and we're still sorting through all of it," said Cpl. Gary Syblis, a spokesman for the Fulton County Police Department.

While Cabrera Borjas' family painted a portrait of a troubled man, they insisted he wasn't violent. And the police, they said, hadn't told them that Cabrera Borjas might have been connected to Jordin's killing.

"No police officer, no detective that we have spoken to told us that it was because of that," said Carmen Gonzalez, a friend of Cabrera Borjas' family.

Residents in this metro Atlanta apartment complex, dotted with brick, garden-style apartments, were saddened by the senselessness of it all.

Many of the apartments in the area, just south of I-285, have had reports of late-night robberies, burglaries and car break-ins — but not violence at this level, said Karen Meinzen McEnerny, a Sandy Springs councilwoman who represents the district in which the killing occurred.

"This is unspeakable," said Meinzen McEnerny. "I'm shocked. I'm horrified. I'm very sad."

On a balmy Monday night, Jordin and other children in the apartment complex played outside.

One resident, Erika Delgado Cruz, saw Jordin shortly before the 8:30 p.m. attack.

She was inside her apartment, though, when she heard Jordin's father yell for help, and she saw the boy lying in the parking lot in front of her apartment.

At first neighbors thought Jordin had been hit by a car.

But this was no car accident: An ax was lodged in Jordin's face.

A short distance away, in the same apartment complex, Cabrera Borjas' friends and family heard the commotion, too.

But they had no idea that Cabrera Borjas, a Honduran native, might have been involved, they said.

When an officer tried to talk to Cabrera Borjas at the Chastain complex, he ran across Roswell Road to another apartment complex, said Syblis, the police spokesman.

Cabrera Borjas threw a tire at an officer, Alexis Powell, and broke the officer's arm, according to police. Then, Cabrera Borjas tried to come after Powell with a stick, police said.

Powell shot Cabrera Borjas and has been placed on routine administrative leave.

As the night — and then the day wore on — police continued to search for the red car with the wobbly wheel and its passengers.

And, they were looking for anyone who might know more about the attack on Jordin.

"We're looking for anybody that can point to [Cabrera Borjas] and say he hit the little boy in the head with the ax," said D. White, a police lieutenant with the Fulton County Police Department.

Few details have emerged about Jordin.

His mother lives in Jonesboro, Ga., and his father lives in the Chastain apartment complex, where the young boy was killed. Neither of his parents could be reached for comment.

But at the same apartment complex where Jordin was killed, friends and family of Cabrera Borjas mourned their loss.

They were under the impression, they said, that the police wanted to detain Cabrera Borjas for either stealing a car or having a stolen car, said Gonzalez, the family friend.

They described Cabrera Borjas as a troubled young man who had been mentally unstable for about two years.

Known to many by his nickname, Jerson, Cabrera Borjas was just released from the Fulton County Jail on Friday for criminal trespass, according to records.

He was becoming increasingly unstable, Gonzalez said.

"He said he would speak to God," she said.

Rony Cabrera, 18, the dead man's younger brother, said Cabrera Borjas was withdrawn.

"He did not speak to anyone. But he was not violent," his brother said. "He did not use drugs. No alcohol, no cigarettes. No nothing."

At one point, friends said, Cabrera Borjas set fire to garbage at the Chastain apartments because he saw the color pink among the debris —and he didn't like the color pink, friends and family members said.

Doug Nurse and Yolanda Rodriguez write for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Journal-Constitution writers Saeed Ahmed, Mike Morris and Cynthia Daniels contributed to this report.

"This is unspeakable

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Yes, it is.

I'm surprised that more people are not totally outraged by this senseless act of racism. If the kid were not white, I doubt that they would have attacked him.
I just hope that the cops blew away the right bean picker.

Oh well - We are outraged. This type of thing is happening daily in Atlanta and there is very little publicity about it.

By the way - this area was one of nicest a few years ago. Illegals have totally trashed it.

The big story is of how this ax murderer is being mistreated and his lawyer is crying FOWL.

That poor child and his family aren't even being talked about.

Was the murderer a legal immigrant??

Originally Posted by bootsalinda

Oh well - We are outraged. This type of thing is happening daily in Atlanta and there is very little publicity about it.

I'm sure that the people of Atlanta are definately outraged about this. I think that the entire country should be outraged.
If not for this site, I would never have heard about it.
If the situation were reversed and a car load of white guys had attacked and killed a Mexican 9 year old kid, it would have made national headlines and every tv news channel would have covered the story.

"He did not speak to anyone. But he was not violent," his brother said. "He did not use drugs. No alcohol, no cigarettes. No nothing."

Maybe he should have been on some drugs. If they saw all of these warning signs, why did his family and friends not get him some type of mental health treatments. I'm sure they abuse other forms of our system. Are they to proud to admit a mental health instability. This is just sickening.

I bet his family will sue the police department!!