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Running for the Border

MILWAUKEE - Most of the people wanted for murder in Milwaukee are believed to have fled to Mexico. Perhaps even more disturbing: Milwaukee's police chief and top prosecutor say it's part of a problem that so big, that it's out of their hands.

The most recent case is the search for the suspect in the Memorial Day double murder at South Shore Park in the Bay View neighborhood. Police believe Octaviano Juarez-Corro may have found freedom by returing to his native Mexico.

"Even if we are able to locate him, it's very very difficult to get him out of Mexico and back to the United States," said Milwaukee Police Chief, Nan Hegerty.

A Milwaukee homicide captain says there are 18 outstanding homicide warrants in the city. Police believe 13 of those suspects may have crossed the Mexican border, making it nearly impossible to ever take them to trial.

"If some people perceive that's a way to escape, to commit a homicide and escape liability, that's bad," said Milwaukee County District Attorney, Mike McCann. He hopes the federal government will get involved and bring some of them back to the United States.

"If we have 13 in our area, I assume that would mean there are many across our country," McCann said. "And eventually the pressure will build to say this has got to be resolved between the two nations."

"It's very very frustrating," said Chief Hegerty. "And it's very frustrating because there is no resolution for the families of the people that have been killed."

The statistics do not suggest that Mexican nationals commit most murders. They only reveal that most of the suspects police can't find are believed to be hiding out in Mexico.

The Mexican government's policy is to not extradite a criminal if that person faces the death penatly or life in prison without parole back in the United States.

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Posted on Mon, Jun. 05, 2006

Suspect in park shooting was legal resident, Mexican citizen


Associated Press

MILWAUKEE - The man charged with shooting two people to death and wounding three others, including his estranged wife, at a park on Memorial Day was in the United States legally, officials said Monday.

Octaviano Juarez-Corro, 32, had a green card and was considered a legal and permanent U.S. resident, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Gail Montenegro. Local officials had described him as an illegal immigrant.

Officials suspect Juarez-Corro may have fled to Mexico, where he is a citizen, but have no confirmation, said Milwaukee Police Capt. Tim Burkee.

"We don't know for sure because we don't have good intelligence there," Burkee said. "And we don't have the legal authority to go into Mexico and get him even if we have a warrant."

Juarez-Corro was charged on Friday with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide in last Monday's shooting at South Shore Park along Lake Michigan.

He was accused of killing Raymundo Silva, 31, and Julio Diaz-Guillen, 17, both of Milwaukee, and wounding Eunice Torres, 23, his estranged wife; Jose Saavedra, 21; and Everardo Munoz, 34.

Authorities suspect the shooting was related to a pending divorce with Torres and his desire to see the couple's 3-year-old daughter, who was at the picnic with her mother.