Police: Killers target immigrants

[IndianaGreen]

Police: Killers target immigrants
Saturday, October 1, 2005; Posted: 9:34 a.m. EDT (13:34 GMT)

TIFTON, Georgia (AP) -- Efrain Navarro woke at 1:30 a.m. to the sound of loud groans, as if someone were hurt.

Then, listening through his bedroom door in the dark, he heard men inside his mobile home speaking English -- an unusual sound, given that he lived with two roommates who speak Spanish.

Navarro sprinted through the darkness for the front door, barely seeing the outline of one of his roommates sprawled on the floor. After hearing two gunshots, Navarro said, he hid in his truck until daylight Friday.

That's when Navarro and residents of three nearby trailer parks discovered shockingly similar crimes. Five people, including one of Navarro's roommates, had been brutally slain in their homes. Six more were wounded, one critically. (Watch police hunt for clues -- 1:20)

The dead were all Mexican immigrants. All lived in mobile homes in Tift County and neighboring Colquitt County, rural areas where migrant workers toil on cotton and peanut farms. Some of the victims were beaten with an aluminum baseball bat found at one of the scenes, and at least one victim was shot, police said.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/01/georgia.killings.ap/index.html

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[skooooo]

2. Who could have foreseen this?? Who could have known??

[MountainLaurel]

4. Anyone with half a brain

Take one part xenophobia, one part racism, one part angry and disenfranchised citizens, one part culture that does not trust banks and thus keeps large sums of cash on hand. Mix thoroughly.

[High Plains]

3. Que se arman para defenderse, muchachos

After all, this is America.

[VegasWolf]

5. MinuteAssholes defending Murika? nt