Thread: Soldier Stabbed After Return From Iraq

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-Soldier Stabbed After Return From Iraq

POSTED: 12:23 pm MST February 13, 2007
UPDATED: 6:05 pm MST February 13, 2007


PHOENIX -- A Valley soldier is fighting for his life after he was stabbed 11 days ago in his front yard.

Jason Okon is a three-year Army veteran who recently returned from Iraq, where he was awarded a Bronze Star for valor.

He planned to get a full-time job when he returned, and eventually attend Arizona State University. When he couldn't find work, he and his wife decided to move to Wisconsin.

Okon's wife, Elizabeth, said her husband was doing some yard work the day before they were scheduled to move to Wisconsin.

Elizabeth Okon said a man, later identified as 34-year-old Armando Martinez-Lozano, approached Okon with a knife and said something to him in Spanish. She said her husband told Martinez-Lozano to leave, and the other man stabbed Okon in the stomach and ran away.

KTAR reported that Martinez-Lozano lived within a block of the Okons' home, near 54th Avenue and Camelback Road.

Elizabeth Okon called 911 and her husband was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he remains in the intensive care unit. He is comatose and on a ventilator, but his wife said Okon is in stable condition.

Martinez-Lozano was arrested by police and jailed on charges of aggravated assault against Okon and the three officers who arrested him.

Armando Martinez-Lozano

Police said Martinez-Lozano is an illegal immigrant and the Immigration and Naturalization Service has placed a hold on him.

Okon's family and friends said they think the stabbing was a hate crime because Okon is a decorated soldier. His wife said he often wore his camouflage around town and in their yard.

"This is domestic terrorism in its rawest form," family friend Albert Fernandez said.

Police have not labeled the stabbing a hate crime.

An account has been set up at Southwest Healthcare Credit Union to help the Okon family. Elizabeth Okon is pregnant and the Okons have two daughters, ages 2 and a-half years and 8 months old, and sold almost all of their possessions in anticipation of their move to Wisconsin. Elizabeth Okon and the children have been staying with a neighbor.

"This is domestic terrorism in its rawest form," family friend Albert Fernandez said.

This is domestic terrorism and on a decorated Iraq war veteren!!!

We should be screaming at the Mexican government!!! How dare your citizens harm our heroes and citizens!!

Militarize the border, deport and get these illegal foreign aliens out of this country.

Originally Posted by CCUSA

"This is domestic terrorism in its rawest form," family friend Albert Fernandez said.

This is domestic terrorism and on a decorated Iraq war veteren!!!

We should be screaming at the Mexican government!!! How dare your citizens harm our heroes and citizens!!

Militarize the border, deport and get these illegal foreign aliens out of this country.

We should demand that the Mexican government take responsibility for sending their racist citizens to America.

Who can we write to in Mexico to force them to do something with their thugs, I am so sick of this, they keep up with this kind of thing there will be hate crimes committed you can bank on that!

And our President won't say one word about this, unless he's asked. Even then, he'll probably give us lip service. Any other President would be outraged by this. Oh, George might say that he is but his actions wont.

And our President won't say one word about this

Nope and neither will the Democrats, The RINO's, The MSM by and large, The Chamber of Commerce, The SPLC, The ADL, LaRaza, LULAC, MEChA, Big business or major unions...

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So this happened 11 days ago and we're just learning of it?

Isn't Phoenix a sanctuary city?

Originally Posted by had_enuf

So this happened 11 days ago and we're just learning of it?

Isn't Phoenix a sanctuary city?

They're not calling it a "hate crime" either. I wonder if that would hold true if the veteran would have been the one doing the stabbing of the ILLEGAL????? Well, I really don't "wonder"...I know it would have been called a hate crime.

What an outrage, to have our own heroes taken down in their own neighborhoods. I pray that something is done soon about this illegal immigration problem, it is beyond ridiculous.