Thread: NC: Illegal immigrant charged in Fayetteville woman's death

posted 12/17/2008
Illegal immigrant charged in Fayetteville woman's death
Posted: Today at 8:27 a.m.
Updated: Today at 4:03 p.m.

Fayetteville, N.C. — Cumberland County investigators arrested an illegal immigrant from Honduras in connection with the death of a 64-year-old woman Tuesday.

Julio Cesar Ramos, 45, who claims to be homeless and unemployed, is charged with beating Paulette Locklear outside her house Tuesday afternoon. He was being held without bond Wednesday in the Cumberland County Detention Center.

Investigators said Ramos had been deported at least a dozen times over the last 20 years but kept getting back into the U.S. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could confirm only one deportation – from Houston in 1989.

Locklear and her family befriended Ramos, and she even let him live in a small building behind her house, at 1213 Wilmington Highway, said her brother, Paul Brewington, and nephew, Jeremy Brewington.

"The family just helped him any way we could," Jeremy Brewington said. "He would come and help us work, and we would pay him. He's just been sort of part of the family for a long time."

Paul Brewington said he took Ramos to church after seeing him walking along the road in Gray's Creek and learning he lived in the woods nearby.

"We just started helping him and giving him food and giving him clothes and stuff," he said. "That's what she was doing to this fellow – just giving him a helping hand."

Locklear called 911 for help Tuesday when Ramos became violent and started breaking windows in an attempt to get inside her house, according to authorities.

Deputies found Locklear's body when they arrived at her house.

"She was a wonderful person, and we're going to miss her a lot," Paul Brewington said.

The state medical examiner’s office has not determined her cause of death, and authorities haven't determined a motive for the slaying.

"We're having trouble determining exactly what his name is because, during the times he was deported, he used several different aliases," said Debbie Tanna, a spokeswoman for the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.

Jeremy Brewington said his family was unaware Ramos had been deported so many times. He said it appeared the man was mentally challenged and was known to have a temper.

"We didn't think he would do anything of this nature. We didn't really see that in him," he said. "He would get angry some times and would leave ... for a while. (He) would come back, and we would take him in and help him any way we could."

http://www.ncwanted.com/ncwanted_home/story/4155249/

Do not aid and abet illegal immigrants. But this is awful ordeal.

Investigators said Ramos had been deported at least a dozen times over the last 20 years but kept getting back into the U.S. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could confirm only one deportation – from Houston in 1989.

This is pitiful incompetence. Finish the damn fence and hire more border agents. There is no reason why any illegal should get a 2nd chance to enter America. The penalty for re-entering the country needs to be stricter so those the animals who commit these crimes never have a chance to come back in.

Originally Posted by butterbean

Investigators said Ramos had been deported at least a dozen times over the last 20 years but kept getting back into the U.S. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could confirm only one deportation – from Houston in 1989.

This is pitiful incompetence. Finish the damn fence and hire more border agents. There is no reason why any illegal should get a 2nd chance to enter America. The penalty for re-entering the country needs to be stricter so those the animals who commit these crimes never have a chance to come back in.

Amen BB!

Illegal fatally beats woman who gives him home
12-time deportee repays compassionate stranger with murder

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Posted: December 19, 2008
12:25 am Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

An illegal alien – who has been deported more than a dozen times – is being charged with first-degree murder after allegedly beating a woman to death when she took him in, gave him work and treated him like family.

Paulette Locklear, 64, and several members of her church built a small house on her property in Fayetteville, N.C., for 45-year-old Julio Cesar Ramos of Honduras, North Carolina's WRAL-TV reported.

Locklear's nephew, Jeremy Brewington, said Locklear reached out to Ramos.

"The family just helped him any way we could," Brewington said. "He would come and help us work, and we would pay him. He's just been sort of part of the family for a long time." Locklear's brother, Paul Brewington, said Ramos was homeless and living in the woods when his sister gave him a place to stay, according to the report.

"We just started helping him and giving him food and giving him clothes and stuff," he said. "That's what she was doing to this fellow – just giving him a helping hand."

They said it wasn't unusual for Ramos to disappear for 6 months and then come back.

But on Tuesday Ramos began shattering windows and trying to break into her home. She called 9-1-1 just before being beaten to death with a blunt object outside of her house.

Police arrived just as Ramos was fleeing the crime scene.

Authorities said he had been deported at least 12 times over a period of 20 years. He kept sneaking back into the U.S., WRAL reported.

Debbie Tanna, a spokeswoman for the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office said investigators are unsure of Ramos' real identity.

"We're having trouble determining exactly what his name is because, during the times he was deported, he used several different aliases," she said.

Family members said they didn't know he had been deported so many times. Jeremy Brewington indicated that Ramos had a temper.

"We didn't think he would do anything of this nature. We didn't really see that in him," he said. "He would get angry sometimes and would leave ... for a while. (He) would come back, and we would take him in and help him any way we could."

Ramos is being held without bond in the Cumberland County Detention Center.

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