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Man charged in ramming death at bar
By Maria Panaritis
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Authorities filed murder charges today against a 35-year-old man, saying he exacted revenge against a takeout clerk who had escorted him out of a Bensalem bar last night by killing him in the parking lot a few minutes later with a pickup truck.
Jose Maldonado-Luzuriaga was sent to the Bucks County prison on homicide and related charges this morning after failing to post $3 million bail in the death of William Sullo III of Philadelphia, said First Assistant District Attorney David Zellis. . . .
Zellis said Maldonado-Luzuriaga told investigators that he had been living in the United States as an illegal immigrant for five or six years but that little else was known about his background, work status or family.
He also told investigators he had drunk five Corona beers before the crash, authorities said.
After bar employees refused to serve him alcohol and their backs were turned on him, some fellow Hispanic patrons apparently gave him a drink, officials said.
A smattering of those patrons would later follow him out of the bar. They argued with him in the parking lot before he got into the truck, authorities said.
Zellis said that the job of informing federal authorities about the suspect's immigration status was being left to Bensalem police but that prosecutors would press forward with their case against Maldonado-Luzuriaga. A preliminary hearing should take place in the next 10 days, Zellis said.
"We will be in touch with the federal authorities," Zellis said, "but that's not going to deter us from fully prosecuting him according to the law."
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Man charged in ramming death at bar | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/30/2008
Sullo was struck by the vehicle and driven into the concrete wall of the building. The force of the impact caused heavy damage to the front of the bar and fatally injured Sullo. He was pronounced dead at Frankford Torresdale Hospital a short time later.
Police said they quickly determined the crashing of the truck into the building was a deliberate act, and that Maldonado-Luzuriaga, identified as an illegal immigrant, was responsible. He was taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in the crash, then taken into custody and charged with criminal homicide, criminal attempted homicide, and other unnamed but related offenses. He was arraigned and sent to Bucks County Prison in lieu of $3 million bail.
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Man charged in ramming death at bar
By Maria Panaritis
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Authorities filed murder charges today against a 35-year-old man, saying he exacted revenge against a takeout clerk who had escorted him out of a Bensalem bar last night by killing him in the parking lot a few minutes later with a pickup truck.
Jose Maldonado-Luzuriaga was sent to the Bucks County prison on homicide and related charges this morning after failing to post $3 million bail in the death of William Sullo III of Philadelphia, said First Assistant District Attorney David Zellis. . . .
Zellis said Maldonado-Luzuriaga told investigators that he had been living in the United States as an illegal immigrant for five or six years but that little else was known about his background, work status or family.
He also told investigators he had drunk five Corona beers before the crash, authorities said.
After bar employees refused to serve him alcohol and their backs were turned on him, some fellow Hispanic patrons apparently gave him a drink, officials said.
A smattering of those patrons would later follow him out of the bar. They argued with him in the parking lot before he got into the truck, authorities said.
Zellis said that the job of informing federal authorities about the suspect's immigration status was being left to Bensalem police but that prosecutors would press forward with their case against Maldonado-Luzuriaga. A preliminary hearing should take place in the next 10 days, Zellis said.
"We will be in touch with the federal authorities," Zellis said, "but that's not going to deter us from fully prosecuting him according to the law."
Full article here:
Man charged in ramming death at bar | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/30/2008
Sullo was struck by the vehicle and driven into the concrete wall of the building. The force of the impact caused heavy damage to the front of the bar and fatally injured Sullo. He was pronounced dead at Frankford Torresdale Hospital a short time later.
Police said they quickly determined the crashing of the truck into the building was a deliberate act, and that Maldonado-Luzuriaga, identified as an illegal immigrant, was responsible. He was taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in the crash, then taken into custody and charged with criminal homicide, criminal attempted homicide, and other unnamed but related offenses. He was arraigned and sent to Bucks County Prison in lieu of $3 million bail.
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