Thread: Illegal Alien Murders Idaho Native American

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No bail for murder suspect


JEROME A. POLLOS/Press
Juan Villanueva speaks with his attorney, Lynn Nelson, during his first appearance Monday for the murder of Timothy Wolfe. Villanueva allegedly shot Wolfe in the street Saturday and was ordered held without bond during the hearing.

By TOM HASSLINGER
Staff writer

COEUR d'ALENE -- The Honduran man accused of fatally shooting a 21-year-old Coeur d'Alene Tribesman early Saturday morning was charged with first-degree murder Monday.

Juan C. Aldana Villanueva, 22, originally of Honduras and living in Post Falls, is being held without bail at the Kootenai County jail for allegedly shooting Timothy I. Williams (Wolfe), of Worley, just after 2 a.m. Saturday following an altercation between the two at Mik n Mac's on Fourth Street in Coeur d'Alene.

Villanueva could face the death penalty if convicted. The minimum sentence is 10 years. It is the first homicide case in Coeur d'Alene in nearly two years, according to the Coeur d'Alene Police Department.

Villanueva made his first appearance before Judge James Stow Monday afternoon. With defense attorney Lynn Nelson beside him, Villanueva listened to the charges against him.

Stow declined bail, due to the violent nature of the charges and the defendant's ties to Honduras, the country in which he was born.

It was unclear as of Monday if Villanueva is a legal United States resident, as the investigation had not turned up a Social Security number for him, said prosecuting attorney Marty Raap.

A preliminary hearing will be scheduled within two weeks, Stow said, after which the case could be scheduled for trial.

"What we're talking about here is a very violent reaction to very minimal provocation," said Raap, who requested bond be set at $1 million.

According to police reports, the victim and his friends were at Mik n Mac's when they had a verbal altercation with the suspect.

A few hours later, at 2:17 a.m., the victim and his friends were walking in the area of Third and Indiana when Villanueva allegedly pulled up to them in his vehicle and fired one shot from a handgun, striking the victim in the head. The suspect immediately fled the area.

The victim -- whose legal name is Williams but had taken his mother's maiden name and is known on the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation as Tim Wolfe -- was transported to Kootenai Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

His family declined any interviews on Monday, said Marc Stewart, Tribe spokesman.

Villanueva was arrested Saturday morning by the Post Falls Police Swat Team assisting Coeur d'Alene police officers at Rancho Viejo restaurant in Post Falls, where he worked.

"We're making sure we're gathering all the information we can," said Sgt. Christie Wood, police spokeswoman.

According to Wood, Villanueva is not the same suspect who had been kicked out of Toro Viejo on Second Street in Coeur d'Alene Friday night for allegedly brandishing a firearm and spraying other patrons with Mace. It was originally reported Villanueva had been kicked out of Toro Viejo before encountering Williams a few hours later.

"Villanueva was never involved with the case at Toro," Wood said, adding that police are investigating that case separately.

The first-degree murder charge is the first homicide case in Coeur d'Alene since August 2007 when an angry apartment tenant, Evelyn Botto, 44, shot and killed her apartment complex manager, Bette Fears, 67, over ongoing disputes with other tenants in the Park Place apartment complex on Ramsey Road. Botto then took her own life.

It was unclear as of Monday if Villanueva is a legal United States resident, as the investigation had not turned up a Social Security number for him, said prosecuting attorney Marty Raap.

Ya OK it takes like what 5 minutes to run a SSN for a credit check? I think the problem may be that he has multiple SSN's/aliases and is most likely an illegal that has murdered yet another US citizen.

Okay, I found out from my Senator that this killer is an illegal alien from Honduras . He didn't reveal the source. This incident has caused such a stir here in North Idaho that it's apparent the media is hushing it up. I couldn't even find any articles on Tim Wolfe's funeral today, except for the blog below. Some of the stories have even been taken down at some of the links posted on this thread.

Huckleberries was told that the funeral for shooting victim Tim Wolfe, 21, of Worley, was so packed that the service was delayed for an hour because people kept arriving. The open-casket service was held at Plummer Middle School, with burial at Desmet, then dinner at Worley Long house.

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/2009/may/

Does the sheriff's dept have a website to check on inmates? We have one here in SD I've used to see if there is an immigration hold.

Originally Posted by jean

Does the sheriff's dept have a website to check on inmates? We have one here in SD I've used to see if there is an immigration hold.

I have never been able to get into it, but we already know he's on immigration hold from one of the articles here. But I don't think his legal status will be posted because Mike talked to our Sheriff today, and the sheriff was abrupt to Mike when he tried to find out the killer's legal status. The sheriff said we didn't have an illegal alien problem here. I voted for that sheriff last year. Not anymore.

ILLEGAL ALIEN MURDERS U.S. CITIZEN IN COEUR D’ALENE

Timothy Wolfe of Worley is dead, and an illegal alien has been charged with first degree murder for pulling up alongside the man as he was walking on the street and shooting him in the face.

The shooting followed an altercation in a local bar, which is a reminder that drinking in such places until the wee hours of the morning is generally not a good idea in the first place. There are many things that can happen as a result, and most of them are bad.

The suspect, a Juan Villanueva, was escorted from the bar following the altercation, but returned with a handgun and shot Wolfe as he was walking with friends to his car. Detectives found him hiding in the restroom in the restaurant where he worked.

Villanueva is an illegal immigrant from Honduras, and prosecutors believe he was preparing to flee back to Honduras when police apprehended him.

Worley leaves behind a one-year old daughter.

The Idaho legislature this year failed for the second year in a row to pass a law that would require employers to use the E-Verify system to confirm that a prospective employee has the legal right to be in the United States.

Had this law been in force and properly used, Villanueva could have and should have been back in Honduras last Saturday night instead of prowling the streets of Coeur d’Alene looking for somebody to shoot.

http://www.idahovaluesalliance.com/news.asp?id=1091

I am glad to see this since the CDA Press decided to pull all the stories and comments on this killing

Hundreds mourn murder victim
Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 11:22:20 pm PDT
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Staff writer
JEROME A. POLLOS/Press

Basil Tanner holds a flower as people hug at the end of the viewing line at Timothy Wolfe's memorial service Thursday in Plummer.
Timothy Williams Wolfe remembered as athlete, dad, 'last gentleman'

It could easily be just any drive to Plummer, until the sign outside Lakeside Elementary School comes into view: "No School Thursday. We Love you Timmy."

That love shut down much of Plummer and Worley on the chilled Thursday morning, when literally a village of mourners crammed into the Lakeside Middle School in Plummer to cherish the memory of its collective son, Timothy Williams Wolfe.

Two months shy of 22 years old, the Worley resident was shot and killed after a skirmish at a Coeur d'Alene bar early Saturday morning, the first reported homicide in Coeur d'Alene in almost two years.

The sea of tear-stained faces on Thursday told how many people a single bullet can affect.

"I was talking to his mom and we want everybody to know that the person who killed Tim not only killed a son and a dad, but he also killed this community," said Wolfe's cousin, Kristi Daniels, after embracing an old friend outside the service. "We're all family here, and he was a big part of this community."

There weren't enough extra chairs to accommodate the more than 600 who flocked to the service. Those who couldn't grab a seat stood at the back, the crowd fanning into the hallways and outside the building.

It wasn't just the loss of such a young member of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe that brought in the droves of mourners.

It was also the loss of the dreams the lean athlete had carried with him, which had been nurtured by neighbors, family, friends and classmates as he rose to athletic prowess and climbed to the cusp of adulthood, entering the daunting worlds of college and fatherhood.

"It's difficult, because he was young, and had life ahead of him, and he was everything we want our kids to be," said Ernie Stensgar, former chairman of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, who spoke at the service. "We just knew he was going to be something someday. We knew he would graduate with honors, do whatever he wanted in life, raise his children and be a good citizen."

Stensgar described Wolfe's tenure at Lakeside High School, where he lettered four years in football and basketball, lettered his senior year in track, and played in the Shriners' All-Star football game.

After graduating in 2005, Wolfe struggled at different local colleges until settling at Salish Kootenai College, a tribal college in Pablo, Mont., where he labored over his class work to land a spot on the Bison basketball team, which he helped qualify for the national championships.

"That team became Tim's second family, and they supported each other all the way," Stensgar said.

Wolfe even bought the team new shoes after he received his check from Avista payments to the Tribe.

A slide show offered a glimpse into the life of a happy, athletic jokester.

Almost perpetually in a basketball jersey and a smile, the photos included Wolfe shooting hoops with his high school team, playing pranks on friends, embracing his grandmother.

Most featured poses with his toddler, Kyleigh Ashlynn Wolfe, born in 2008, from swimming lessons to piggyback rides to a trip to Disneyland.

Few eyes were dry as the wails of the drum circle backdropped the final viewing, the wooden casket led over the gym floor where Wolfe had played ball as a boy, starting the journey to growing up that he never finished.

Teammates from his high school and college basketball teams lined up beside Wolfe's family, where the young men hugged and cried with the hundreds who passed to say their final goodbyes.

Jerry Ford, a member of the Spokane Tribe, said he and many other members of the Indian basketball circuit trooped out to honor Wolfe.

"That's how tight they are on the Indian circuit -- you know everybody, especially if you're a great ballplayer like Tim was," Ford said, shaking his head. "He was just getting well known, he had a lot to accomplish."

Melvin Moses of Desmet said Wolfe was the person who taught him to play basketball on the park courts in Worley.

More than that, he taught him respect for others.

"He was the last real gentleman," the 18-year-old said, his eyes watering. "He was nice to everybody."

Lana Sifford, a neighbor and close friend of Tim's family, described his death as "total shock" to the small town.

"He was never in trouble, he was a good dad, a good son," she said. "He'd give you the shirt off his back."

Stensgar urged other youths to learn from Wolfe's tragedy.

"Not every person coming at you in a car may have the respect you have, so be careful, behave, take care of one another," he said. "Because we want you to come home.

"We want you to reach your dreams."


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