Teenager Gets 25-Year Sentence in Hate Crime Killing on Long Island
By ANDY NEWMAN and MANNY FERNANDEZ
Published: May 26, 2010


A white teenager who fatally stabbed an Ecuadorean immigrant on Long Island in 2008 was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years in prison, the maximum sentence.

The teenager, Jeffrey Conroy, had been convicted last month of manslaughter as a hate crime for the death of Marcelo Lucero, 37, who was attacked in a parking lot of the Patchogue train station.

Just before his sentencing by Justice Robert W. Doyle of State Supreme Court in Riverhead, Mr. Conroy, 19, apologized. “I’m really sorry for what happened to Mr. Lucero,â€