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GEORGE, Utah June 26, 2004 -- A man who took a baby hostage stabbed the infant during a standoff with police before officers shot and wounded the man in the hip. The baby was flown to a Salt Lake City hospital Friday night with stab wounds to some internal organs, but was expected to live, St. Police identified the suspect as Valentin S Echevarria, and said the child was believed to be his girlfriend's. The child's mother ran to a neighbor and called police Friday night, saying she had been stabbed in the hand by a man who still had her baby in her home. Officers negotiated with the man who was in the country illegally in Spanish, but he did not drop the knife and continued to threaten the child. When officers saw Echevarria stab the baby, they tried to subdue him with the beanbag rounds, then bullets, Harding said. "It stopped him from doing what he was doing and we were able to grab the child and rush it to medical services," Harding said. An officer grabbed the child and ran it to a waiting ambulance. Harding believed the child is a boy around 6-7 months old, but wasn't certain about the gender. Echevarria, 28, had been deported recently, Harding said. He was treated and released for a gunshot wound to the hip, then taken to a jail and held on charges of aggravated attempted murder and aggravated kidnapping, Harding said.
Valentin S Echevarria, 28, is shown in this police booking photo, June 25, 2004. Echevarria is is the Washington County Jail and is being held on charges of aggravated attempted murder and aggravated kidnapping, for stabbing a baby he was holding hostage, in St, George, Utah, police said.
View Replies To: NewRomeTacitus Being one who thinks tales of prisoners' exacting justice on pedarests and other sociopaths are apocryphal, I do hope they are true in this case. It would be nice to ship Mr Echevarria's body home minus a few pounds of flesh.
thegreatbeast "Harding believed the child is a boy around 6-7 months old, but wasn't certain about the gender." I hope that uncertainty didn't have anything to do with the wounding.
View Replies To: NewRomeTacitus This is the garbage that republican Orin Hatch wants to cozy up to. Well, in that case we need to make sure that this perv can cozy up to hatch!
View Replies To: steplock "Well, in that case we need to make sure that this perv can cozy up to hatch!" Hatch is so far out of touch he doesn't know what he's saying half the time.
He was treated and released for a gunshot wound to the hip, With American taxpayers paying the bill. then taken to a jail and held on charges of aggravated attempted murder and aggravated kidnapping Where he will meet with Democrat operatives who will register him to vote. I wonder if Senator Hatch will take pity on this guy and hire him as a babysitter.
View Replies To: kdot "Unfortunately, this is true of so many senators." Most of them IMO They have so many perks and are so removed from everyday life I bet they don't even wipe their on asses anymore.
View Replies To: NewRomeTacitus I don't believe this garbage! We all know poor Mexican illegals only come to here to work and share our values for honest, hard work! You are just part of that insane immigration/border obsessed crowd!
All this time we've been worried about the Hildabeast, when it is clear to all "informed" Americans that Hatch plans to institute a dictatorial Empire through some secret Senatorial clause in the upcoming Patriot Act IV: The Senator Strikes Back!
View Replies To: NewRomeTacitus I hope the police remember to contact the Mexican Consulate so we don't have to worry about sending this scumbag to prison. Once in prison word will get around that he stabbed a child -- after the word gets around he will last about as long as a mayfly.
View Replies To: streetpreacher I associated them after listening to Hatch one too many times on C-SPAN. I don't know if his magic underwear is too tight or if he's an accident of Mormon famiily traditions;
View Replies To: ladyjane How does a guy that ugly and mean looking get a girlfriend? An ugly man walks into his local pub with a big grin on his face. Well, on my way home last night, I noticed a young woman tied to the tracks, like in the movies. I, of course, went and cut her free and took her back to my place. We did everything, me on top, sometimes her on top, every position imaginable!"
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