June 14th, 2016, illegal alien transient Johnny Josue Sanchez set fire to an abandoned warehouse in retaliation against another homeless squatter.
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| Johnny Sanchez of Honduras, arrested |
His fire ended up murdering five Americans and nearly killed two others.
I found out about this story through a contact who monitors illegal alien crimes in the news, including the Los Angeles area. Five days later, I went to the site of that abandoned warehouse, with the smokestains still singed around the borders of the windows.
I still remember the stench of the the burned areas all around. Within minutes of our arrival at the scene, a yound lady named Choda arrived, in tears. Her husband Deandre Mitchell was one of the five victims. He had a nickname "Jokerface", and that's all that the LA Times article reported.
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| Honoring the Loss of the Westlake Five |
This sudden encounter helped capture the tragedy of these terrible crimes. Foreign nationals break into our country, commit repeat offenses, receive little punishment, then reoffend.
What happens when they murder our citizens? Yes, they get caught, convicted, incarcerated. However, we the taxpayers have to shoulder the costs of their room and board in our country.
What's worse, aside from the report published by the LA Times, the press will not report that these scum are illegal aliens!
In this report, the DA's office announced that they won't pursue the death penalty against this evil man:
against a man charged with setting a June 2016 fire that killed five people in
a vacant commercial building in the Westlake district where a group of
transients were living.
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| From the top left corner going clockwise: Joseph Proenneke, Dean Clemons, Tierra Stansberry, Mary Ann Davis |
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| Deandre Mitchell featured on back of Remembrance Project Shirt |
June 13, 2016 deaths of De Andre Mitchell, Jerry Dean Clemons, Mary Ann Davis,
Joseph Proenneke and Tierra Stansberry, along with two counts of attempted
murder involving two people who were rescued from the burning building.
The five people were not transients themselves. Dean Clemons and Mary Ann Davis were Joseph's biological parents. They all planned to meet together in Los Angeles.
multiple murders and murder during the commission of an arson.
Special circumstances notwithstanding, the DA won't pursue the death penalty.
had been involved in a dispute with another transient in the vacant building at
2411 W. Eighth St., near MacArthur Park.
swept through the building where homeless people had been living. Cadaver dogs
and their handlers discovered the bodies of four more people “huddled up” in
the ruins of the two-story structure the next day, Los Angeles Fire Department
arson investigator Lance Jimenez testified at a hearing in March in which
Sanchez was ordered to stand trial.
They wanted to get out, but they couldn't escape. Terrible. I can't imagine the horror which swept through their minds as the fire, or rather fires, engulfed the entire building.
and that he was able to rule out the possibility that the blaze had been
accidentally caused.
jailed without bail.
pretrial hearing, and could now face a maximum of life in prison without the
possibility of parole if he is convicted as charged.
Final Reflection
Notice that not once did the article mention that Sanchez was an illegal alien. The report didn't even print "undocumented", even though that term is inappropriate and inefficient.
When people challenge the argument that illegal aliens commit a disproportionate number of crimes, our answer must reference how often the media and the government refuse to report the nature of these terrible crimes.
For now, it is nothing but tragedy, and the true solace that comes with justice served has become a little more elusive.
UPDATE
Robin Hvidston, the California Director for the Remembrance Project and the leader for We the People Rising, reported the following about this unfortunate update: