AbateHate.com — James Taylor, age 69, was fatally injured in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Arrested are Maria Elizabeth Peña-Echeverria, 18, Johnathan Daniel Villanueva-Galer, 19, and an unidentified 16-year-old.
Reports say Taylor was assaulted in a cemetery over the Memorial Day weekend. The motive for the attack was not reported leaving speculation that the murder may have been a gang initiation.
The crime apparently occurred May 28, 2021.
"This was not a random act," Raleigh police spokeswoman Laura Hourigan told Fox News. Hourigan declined to provide more details regarding potential motives, adding that she does not have information about Peña-Echeverria's legal status or if she has any gang affiliation.
Raleigh Police Department officers on Friday were dispatched to the 2200 block of State Farm Road, where they located an adult male suffering from serious injuries. The man, later identified as Taylor, was transported to the hospital where he was declared deceased, police said.
Hourigan declined to clarify how Taylor was fatally injured, as autopsy results have not been finalized.
In a recording of the 911 call provided to Fox News, a man who identifies himself as a worker for the North Carolina State labs tells a dispatcher that he saw three people –two males and one female, all of Hispanic descent – running out of the cemetery.
He says they hopped into two separate vehicles, one a sedan, the other a pickup truck, and left in a hurry. The caller, who says he drove to the area to check on his animals, tells the dispatcher he also sees clothes and blood across the ground leading the cemetery.
[North Carolina cemetery murder: Second, third teenager taken into custody over slaying of senior citizen, by Danielle Wallace, foxnews.com, June 2 2021]
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Image: Maria Elizabeth Peña-Echeverria, ohnathan Daniel Villanueva-Galer,
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