Hispanic Suspect In Rare Upstate New York Murder

By James Fulford on February 16, 2009 at 4:38pm

The suspect in an upstate New York multiple murder is named Frank Garcia. He's apparently from Hilton, NY, a typical American small town which is demographically only 1.49% Hispanic. He's probably American-born, a guess I'm making based on his first name. Ontario County, where the shooting occurred, is also demographically behind the times, so much so that they don't have any murders:

A rare charge in Ontario County
By Jessica Pierce
Canandaigua Daily Messenger
Posted Feb 16, 2009
Canandaigua, N.Y. —

Frank Garcia could be the first person in at least 30 years to be charged with first-degree murder in Ontario County.

That’s according to Ontario County District Attorney R. Michael Tantillo, who intends to ask a grand jury to consider the charge within the next two weeks.

If the charge is levied, however, Garcia won’t be considered a “capital” case and won’t face the possibility of the death penalty because the Court of Appeals has struck down that statute, ruling it unconstitutional, in a 2004 case called People v. LaValle. The death penalty had returned to New York state nine years earlier.[More]

Does the fact that suspect Garcia was probably born in the United States mean that we  shouldn't put in the "Immigrant Mass Murder" category? Not really.