or, Another Brick In Trump's Wall.
A suspect in five murders in Kansas and Missouri was pronounced dead at a hospital Tuesday after he was found hanging from a light fixture in his cell at the St. Louis jail.
Pablo Serrano-Vitorino, an [illegal] immigrant accused of killing four people in Kansas and one man in Missouri, was in his cell alone when he was found by jail staff during a routine check at 2:02 a.m. Tuesday. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 3:06 a.m., officials say.
Serrano-Vitorino, 43, was charged in Montgomery County, Mo., with killing Randy Nordman on March 8, 2016, at his rural home near New Florence. Prosecutors alleged that Serrano-Vitorino, on the run from a quadruple slaying in Kansas, killed Nordman, 49, after abandoning a getaway vehicle on the interstate.
A trial for the Kansas crimes would have followed any Missouri trial. Serrano-Vitorino was charged in Kansas with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Jeremy Waters, 36; Michael Capps, 41; and brothers Clint Harter, 27, and Austin Harter, 29. Serrano-Vitorino lived next door to Capps; he allegedly burst into his home with a rifle and shot all four men.
The killings received nationwide attention in the ongoing debate over legal and illegal immigration. Serrano-Vitorino was a Mexican national who had been deported from the United States in 2004 and illegally re-entered the country at an unknown time, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
I'd speculate that this poor fellow was triggered by rampant American racism but that's probably a poor choice of words in this situation.
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