Friend: Swastika Tattooed Teen Was Killer in LI Hate Crime

The defendants

Seven Long Island teens are accused in the fatal beating of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero, but one has been singled out as the killer. Nineteen-year-old Nicholas Hausch took the stand today testifying against Jeffrey Conroy, the only one of the boys accused of murder and manslaughter as a hate crime, according to the AP. "[Conroy] told me he stabbed him," Hausch said in court, remembering how his friend refused to dispose of the bloody weapon.

"We were telling him to throw it [away]," the key witness recalled. "[He] said he washed it off in a puddle." Last week Conroy's prison-style Swastika tattoo, inspired by the HBO show Oz , prompted a discussion of whether the 19-year-old was a white supremacist (his lawyer and father claimed he was not). Hausch pleaded guilty last year to gang assault, assault as a hate crime and conspiracy in connection with Lucero's beating and a number of other incidents, and could serve up to 25 years if convicted. As the evidence against him piles up, Conroy may face an even tougher sentence.

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By Sabrina Jaszi in News on March 29, 2010 5:00 PM

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freddynyc

Did someone once mention this looks like the album cover of an 80s boy band?

Guest

...and they're called "the defendants".

Thinky Think

Well there many other people in Long island that think this way they are just smarter than these ediots to act upon it. Actually they just join the NYPD.

Guest

probably one of the most dangerous things on earth is when hatred connects with action. sure, a lot of people need to vent but they do other things to convert hatred into good feelings. feelings are not necessarily a bad thing, and in my opinion all feelings are good, but when people don't know how to deal with bad feelings and become slaves to them, the society is in danger of devolving.

ps hey, where're all those "fuck you! you racist bastard! go to hell! etc, etc, etc" comments? these guys are the real deal!

seriously, anti-racist commenters are missing out. then again, some people only feel good from making others feel bad, not knowing that they're only making their lives shittier b/c of the instant gratification of putting others down--gives me the willies.

bitchincamaro

He's sure got a perty mouth.

WesleySnipesAlot

You are not born to hate, you are taught to hate. The father probably knows much more about his son's white supremacy attitude than he would publicly admit.

fosiacat

for fucks sake, just lock them all up and throw away the key.. no one will miss him. doesn't matter which one did the stabbing, they all all pieces of shit, and if one didn't do it, the other would have. to stand by and watch is just as bad.

jaycjay

"remembering how his friend refused to dispose of the bloody weapon."

The boy's too trifling to throw it off, even after a nighttime murder.

(Time-shifted, and of course from the wrong HBO show.)