St. Louis CofCC Blog

KSDK-NBC-5:

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A 28-year-old man and a teenage boy were charged Thursday in the execution-style schoolyard killings of three college students and the wounding of another, a crime that has outraged this violence-marred city

The arrests came within hours of each other, with police taking the 15-year-old boy into custody Wednesday night and the man, Jose Carranza, surrendering to the mayor on Thursday.

“We believe that others were involved in this heinous crime,” Essex County Prosecutor Paula T. Dow said. “We’re looking for them.”

Community activists, meanwhile, urged racial calm after the arrest of a Hispanic man — Carranza — in the slayings of the three young black students.

“The kind of violence that happens in Newark is random. There has never been any animosity between blacks and Latinos,” said Ras Baraka, principal of Central High School in Newark and the son of New Jersey’s former poet laureate, Amiri Baraka.

I covered the story on another medium, and initially speculated that the four victims really weren’t innocent bystanders. Because it seems now that this was a Hispanic-on-black murder, that the motive for the crimes could very well be racial hatred.

If there truly is no “animosity between blacks and Latinos” in Newark, then it must have materialized all of a sudden before last Saturday night.

UPDATE 7:10 PM:  The local politicians and the MSM speak of this for the tragedy that it was, but there wasn’t 1% of this moral indignation over the Christian-Newsom murders in Knoxville; the local politician/MSM angle there is that “only white supremacists” are making a big deal of it, and by no means was it a hate crime (and they’re not bothering to find out if it was).  Evidently, some victims of brutal murders are more equal than others.  Also, the early returns on the blabbering from Newark politicians has nothing to do with the fact that the suspect is an illegal alien, but about how the gun did it.