Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones But Names will never hurt me…
A man who confessed to fatally stomping a Phoenix woman over a racial slur has been convicted of murder.
Maricopa County prosecutors say Jose Preciliano Quintero was convicted Monday of first-degree murder, sexual abuse and kidnapping.
Prosecutors say Quintero cannot be sentenced to death because he was 16 at the time of the December 2008 slaying. He faces a sentence of up to life in prison.
Quintero told police he was upset because his girlfriend had just broken up with him and that he snapped when 38-year-old Helen Coulter called him a racial slur.
Authorities say Quintero admitted dragging Coulter to a vacant lot, stomping on her and sexually abusing her with a stick. An autopsy showed Coulter died of blunt force trauma.
Yikes, brutal story. But there is no “Gun Death” here so just move along!
The thing that bugs me most about this one is that he can’t face the death penalty because he was under 16…
Maybe if Ms. Coulter had been armed, she’d be alive today. And the Bradys would have another “Gun Death”, and taxpayers wouldn’t have to pay to keep this skum behind bars for the rest of his life. It would be a trifecta!