Kenol Baptiste was charged on suspicion of stabbing to death his countryman “roommates” in Middletown (NY) while he was awaiting a deportation hearing.
The alleged 30-year-old murderer is a native of Haiti who at the time supposedly He had been undocumented in the United States for eight monthshighlighted News 12. The two victims were also Haitian immigrants.
“It was one of the most brutal murders that some authorities tell us they have seen,” said the Orange County (NY) Executive Steve Neuhaus. He added that Baptiste was awaiting federal immigration proceedings.
He was arrested Monday on suspicion of killing his two roommates at the Eastview Condominiums on Ruth Court in Middletown. The police said that one of the victims was found dead inside the apartment and the other was injured on the sidewalk and died during emergency surgery at Garnet Health Medical Center, reported New York Post.
The motive for the double homicide is unclear. Baptiste is due back in court on Monday. All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
“We have no history or background on these individuals,” he said. the Republican Neuhaus, former military man and son of immigrantswho has been critical of the massive arrival of undocumented immigrants to New York. “Who is monitoring them? That’s the problem.”
Neuhaus, who has just returned from a trip to the US border with a group of county executivessays that the victims rented the apartment and lived there with a group, including the one now suspected of killing them. “This is a failure at all levels of the federal government,” he sentenced.
Orange County is involved in several ongoing lawsuits with the City of New York after hundreds of immigrants were bussed to various hotels in Newburgh last year. Before that, several planes carrying what federal officials said at the time were underage asylum seekers were seen landing at airports in the region.
This week in New York City the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) reported that seven Hispanic migrants are in federal custody and face deportation proceedings after being repeatedly arrested by police since last year for drug and weapons crimes.
The migration crisis has marked the two years of the administration of Mayor Eric Adams of NYC, in the midst of a national political battle between democrats and republicans. It is estimated that between April 2022 and December 2023 164,500 personas They passed through the city’s admission center.
2024-04-05 16:19:40
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