Thread: New Jersey Girl, 16, Stabbed To Death By Man Living In Country Illegally, Sources Say

September 12, 2018 at 11:47 pm

LONG BRANCH, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — A devastated New Jersey family is demanding justice for their daughter who was murdered over the weekend.

Sources say the man behind bars for the crime was not in the United States legally.

The pain of losing a friend is impossibly unfair for the teens who are all barely halfway through high school. Even worse was when that friend was by all accounts as wonderful as Madison Wells.

“Honestly I’m taking it pretty hard right now,” friend Victor Lemus said.


Madison Wells, 16. (credit: CBS2)

“She was just this bright light that everybody needed in their life,” friend Joseph Escriba said.

Hundreds of Madison’s classmates and teachers from Long Branch High School gathered in grief to light candles and comfort her family, still reeling over the murder that took the beautiful young woman away.

“It’s tragic, tragic when you see a life, so full of life… Lovable and energetic, taken so quickly for reason,” teacher Yvette Rice said.

Family members say the 16-year-old was killed Saturday night at a relative’s house by a boy she was dating. Her father, Ed Wells, says Bryan Cordero Castro “stabbed her to death and ran like a coward.”

Police arrested Cordero Castro nearby three hours after the gruesome crime.

“She met this guy, puppy love I guess,” Ed said. “He was an illegal immigrant and I found out his age and I had a problem with it.”

Law enforcement sources tell CBS2 the 20-year-old Cordero Castro, of Guatemala, was not in the United States legally. Friends of the young couple say they never saw it coming.

“They were happy together. I’ve seen them hold hands… He was a family person, she was God’s gift,” friend Vinicius Silva said.

Cordero Castro will be in court early Thursday. Madison’s family is expecting a huge turnout when she’s laid to rest on Friday.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/09...gal-immigrant/

So horrible, he was much older than her apparently, one of these old ones they let into our high schools. It's so wrong what is going on. Just terrible. Poor girl.

NONE of them should be in our schools...no matter how old they are!

Send them back to schools in THEIR country.

We should not be harboring, aiding and abetting illegal aliens OR their minor children!

GET THEM OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!

OFF OUR HEALTHCARE

OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS

OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!

I agree but when I was in school, if you didn't graduate by the time you were a certain age, you were SOL and had to go special school somewhere else for a GED, you couldn't hang in school with younger students until you finally decided to do the work to graduate high school. I think it was 19, before you turned 20.

Originally Posted by Judy

I agree but when I was in school, if you didn't graduate by the time you were a certain age, you were SOL and had to go special school somewhere else for a GED, you couldn't hang in school with younger students until you finally decided to do the work to graduate high school. I think it was 19, before you turned 20.

I didn't see anything i the story that would indicate the illegal alien murderer attended her high school.

No one said he did. The high school thing of older illegal aliens attending school with younger students is a different issue, whether it relates here or not, do not know.

Originally Posted by MW

I didn't see anything i the story that would indicate the illegal alien murderer attended her high school.

Originally Posted by Judy

No one said he did. The high school thing of older illegal aliens attending school with younger students is a different issue, whether it relates here or not, do not know.

But it was Judy who wrote

Originally Posted by Judy

I agree but when I was in school, if you didn't graduate by the time you were a certain age, you were SOL and had to go special school somewhere else for a GED, you couldn't hang in school with younger students until you finally decided to do the work to graduate high school. I think it was 19, before you turned 20.

So who was it who alluded that he was in her school?

From the article:

Family members say the 16-year-old was killed Saturday night at a relative’s house by a boy she was dating.

and

“She met this guy, puppy love I guess,” Ed said. “He was an illegal immigrant and I found out his age and I had a problem with it.”

Law enforcement sources tell CBS2 the 20-year-old Cordero Castro, of Guatemala, was not in the United States legally.

I don't find anything about him being in school at all.