Illegal Alien Accused of Murdering Muslim Teen (update)
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by JOHN BINDER
20 Jun 2017
Fairfax, VA
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A young illegal alien is accused of brutally murdering a Muslim teenager in Fairfax County, Virginia near a mosque.
Darwin Martinez Torres, a 22 of El Salvador, is responsible for the beating death of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen, according to police, NBC Washington reported.
Hassanen and a group of fellow Muslim teenagers were eating at a nearby McDonald’s when they left and started walking back to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center when Torres, according to police, started following the teenagers.
Soon after the teens noticed Torres, the illegal alien allegedly jumped a curb with his car and got out of his vehicle and started chasing the teens while wielding a baseball bat. Torres was able to grab Hassanen and began beating her to death with the bat, police said.
The illegal alien allegedly took her body to a nearby pond and dumped her there for the authorities to later find.
Torres now has a detainer on him by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which demands he be turned over to federal immigration officials should he be released from local custody at any point.
The illegal alien did not have any previous run-ins with ICE before he allegedly murdered Hassanen.
Despite mainstream media reports that Hassanen was killed at the hands of an anti-Muslim attacker, police said Torres’ actions were due to “road rage.”
“This tragic case appears to be the result of a road rage incident involving the suspect, who was driving and who is now charged with murder, and a group of teenagers who was walking and riding bikes in and along a roadway,” Fairfax County Police said in a statement.
“Our investigation at this point in no way indicates the victim was targeted because of her race or religion,” the statement said.
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CBS, NBC Censor Murder of Muslim Girl at Hands of Illegal Immigrant
CBS, NBC Censor Murder of Muslim Girl at Hands of Illegal Immigrant
June 20, 2017 12:17 AM EDT
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On Sunday afternoon, the body of Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year-old Muslim girl from Virginia, was discovered by police after going missing earlier that morning. The story went viral Monday with accusations that she was targeted because of her religion. According to authorities, that was not the motive of her attacker, 22-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres, road rage was. And in addition to him being under arrest, Immigration and Customs Enforcement believe him to be an illegal immigrant. Only ABC reported the story Monday evening (CBS, NBC, Univision and Telemundo ignored it), but they failed to mention his legal status. Ahead of the story itself, Anchor David Muir played up the attack as a hate crime despite the facts known at the time. “The teenage girl killed on the side of the road. Was it a hate crime? What police are now saying,” he hyped as the World News Tonight was going to a commercial break.
When that story finally aired, Muir gave the murder a mere 18 seconds news brief, saying:
To the index. The murder of a teenage Muslim girl in Sterling, Virginia. Police say the 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen was beaten to death. They say she was the victim of road rage. Investigators say she was walking to a mosque with friends. The suspect then driving up to them. 22-year-old Darwin Torres is under arrest tonight. Police do not believe she was targeted.
ABC knew perfectly well at the time of their on-air report that Torres was an illegal immigrant. In an article posted on ABC News’ website at 3:44 PM (almost three hours before WNT went live), reporter Karma Allen wrote that, “ICE said in a statement Monday that they have filed a detainer on Torres, a citizen of El Salvador, for potential deportation as he is believed to be in the U.S. illegally.”
Also left out of the report were some of the more grim details of the heinous act. “[Torres] got into an argument with a teen on a bike and then drove his car over a curb, scattering the group of as many as 15 teens,” wrote The Washington Post. “He caught up with them a short time later in a parking lot and chased them with a baseball bat, striking 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen and then abducting her in his car.” Torres eventually killed Hassanen and dumped her body in a pond near where he lived.
The Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC), in addition to the Spanish-language networks, have a long history of ignoring and censoring the crimes committed by illegal immigrants. Recently, they censored the infamous Rockville, Maryland rape case where two illegal immigrants were accused of raping a minor in a high school bathroom. The charges were later substituted with child pornography charges, but the networks still ignored the case.
Transcript below:
ABC
World News Tonight
June 19, 2017
6:49:19 PM Easter
DAVID MUIR: [When we come back] Also, the teenage girl killed on the side of the road. Was it a hate crime? What police are now saying.
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6:52:32 PM Eastern
MUIR: To the index. The murder of a teenage Muslim girl in Sterling, Virginia. Police say the 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen was beaten to death. They say she was the victim of road rage. Investigators say she was walking to a mosque with friends. The suspect then driving up to them. 22-year-old Darwin Torres is under arrest tonight. Police do not believe she was targeted.
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WaPo Ignores That Muslim Teen Was Allegedly Killed by Illegal Alien
by JOHN BINDER
22 Jun 2017
Fairfax, VA
The Washington Post refused to mention the illegal alien status of the man accused of beating to death a Muslim teenager in Fairfax County, Virginia.
In a piece on the funeral of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen, the Washington Post mentions the accused killer, Darwin Martinez Torres, but excluded any references to the fact that the man is a foreign national living in the U.S. illegally:
Authorities arrested Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, of Sterling, after a Fairfax County officer noticed him circling the site Sunday.
Police said Martinez Torres, a construction worker, beat Nabra with a baseball bat and left her body in a pond near his apartment building. Her remains were found Sunday afternoon.
Breitbart Texas reported days ago of Torres’ status as an illegal alien. The accused killer now has a detainer on him by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), where if he is released from prison for any reason, he will be deported to Guatemala.
The Post stressed how Hassanen’s death could still be an anti-Muslim hate crime, despite previous enforcement policies that wait for Torres and others to commit crimes before risking deportation:
The brutal assault has alarmed the surrounding Muslim community and reverberated nationally with calls for a hate-crime investigation. A vigil in Dupont Circle in the District on Tuesday night drew hundreds, and hundreds more — many of them young — attended a vigil in Reston on Wednesday night.
Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Raymond F. Morrogh has not ruled out pursuing hate-crime charges if fresh evidence points in that direction.
“We heard about this type of hatred. We never thought it was going to happen in our neighborhood,” said Rhab Saad, who lives in the same apartment complex as the Hassanens. “Muslim kids and Christian kids in this neighborhood grow up together. We’re all family.”
Hassanen’s death drew national headlines from the Post and The New York Times, but following the revelation that the accused killer is an illegal alien, the story quickly went to metro sections.
Hassanen and a group of fellow Muslim teenagers were eating at a nearby McDonald’s when they left and started walking back to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center when Torres, according to police, started following them.
Soon after the teens noticed Torres, the illegal alien allegedly jumped a curb with his car and got out of his vehicle and started chasing the teens while wielding a baseball bat. Torres was able to grab Hassanen and began beating her to death with the bat, police said.
The illegal alien allegedly took her body to a nearby pond and dumped her there for the authorities to later find.
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Prosecutors want to put on evidence that Nabra Hassanen’s alleged killer was suspecte
Prosecutors want to put on evidence that Nabra Hassanen’s alleged killer was suspected MS-13 member
By Justin Jouvenal
August 23
Prosecutors plan to introduce evidence during a capital murder trial that the man accused of the high-profile killing of a Muslim teen in Virginia last year had been suspected of being a member of the violent MS-13 street gang, according to recent court filings.
Darwin Martinez Torres’s brother-in-law “believed” the 23-year-old was an MS-13 associate as a juvenile in the years before authorities said he abducted, sexually assaulted and brutally killed 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen, according to the filings.
Prosecutors are not alleging the slaying is related to Torres’s alleged affiliation with the gang. But they hope to present the testimony as evidence of Torres’s potentially dangerous conduct if he is convicted at his January trial in Fairfax County and the jury weighs whether to sentence him to death.
News of a possible MS-13 angle in a case that grabbed national attention could have reverberations beyond the trial, since President Trump and his allies have highlighted violence committed by gang members and undocumented immigrants to advocate for hard-line immigration policies.
In recent days, Trump and some Republicans have seized on the case of Mollie Tibbetts, an Iowa college student who authorities said was killed by an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. The man’s attorney claims he was in the United States legally, but has offered no evidence to back up the assertion.
At a rally in West Virginia on Tuesday, Trump told a crowd that MS-13 was “on the run” and the killing of Tibbetts “should have never happened.”
“The immigration laws are a such a disgrace,” Trump said.
Immigration authorities have also said Torres, who is originally from El Salvador, entered the country illegally.
Hassanen, of Reston, Va., was attacked as she and friends walked back to their Sterling mosque, following a pre-dawn meal during Ramadan in June 2017. Police said Torres approached the group in his car and got into an altercation with one of them, before getting out and chasing them with a baseball bat.
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Nabra Hassanen in an undated family photo. (AP)
Torres eventually caught Hassanen and hit her with the bat, police said. He then abducted her, sexually assaulted her, killed her and dumped her body in a pond near his Sterling apartment, police said. Torres was arrested a short time later and has been charged with murder, rape and other counts.
Hassanen’s family feared she was targeted because of her faith, but police have called it a “road rage incident” and said they have found no evidence of a hate crime. The slaying drew national coverage and sparked vigils from coast to coast.
Joseph T. Flood, an attorney for Torres, declined to comment on the allegation that his client may have been a member of MS-13, but in court filings the defense team has sought to have the testimony barred from the trial.
Virginia law allows prosecutors to present evidence of “unadjudicated criminal conduct” during the sentencing phase of a death penalty trial to try to establish if a defendant remains a continuing threat to commit violence. The defense argues that being a gang member is not a crime in and of itself, so the testimony is not admissible.
“Its value is substantially outweighed by the unfair prejudice that will result,” defense attorneys wrote in a filing objecting to the inclusion of the proposed gang reference.
Prosecutors wrote in a filing that is under seal that Torres’s brother-in-law said the defendant had been associated with the gang through May 2011, according to an excerpt quoted in the defense filing.
The court documents publicly available do not detail Torres’s alleged status with the gang after that, or say whether he left MS-13. Prosecutors also did not detail any alleged activity with the gang, according to the defense filing.
It is not the first time Torres has been accused of an association with the region’s largest and most violent gang, which has experienced a resurgence up and down the East Coast in recent years.
The week before Hassanen was killed, a woman went to an emergency room at a Loudoun County hospital and reported that Torres had punched, choked and sexually assaulted her and was a member of MS-13, according to two people familiar with her account.
Authorities were informed, but the woman declined to pursue charges.
Following a report on the incident in The Washington Post, Fairfax County police investigated and said they found no “credible information” that Torres had gang ties.
Fairfax County police declined to comment on the apparent discrepancy between their findings and the evidence prosecutors plan to introduce, since the case is still pending. Fairfax County prosecutors also declined to comment on the evidence.
The recent defense filings also indicate prosecutors plan to introduce 15 other instances of alleged bad acts by Torres. The defense objects to the introduction of claims that Torres bullied kids while in high school, stole money from his brother-in-law and vandalized a truck, among other incidents.
Little is publicly known about Torres, but the details add to a picture of turbulent years as a juvenile. Previous defense filings had said Torres was homeless for a time before he turned 18, lived at a youth shelter and faced unspecified charges in Loudoun County that were eventually dropped.
Defense attorneys are preparing to make Torres’s mental capacity an issue in the trial. A neuropsychologist who examined Torres wrote that he is “likely intellectually disabled” and should be evaluated to determine whether he is too impaired to face the death penalty, according to a filing. A judge recently appointed experts to carry out the evaluations.
A hearing on the defense’s motion to keep prosecutors from introducing the gang reference and other alleged prior incidents at trial will occur on Aug. 31 in Fairfax County Circuit Court.
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