March 29, 2010
By FRANK ELTMAN
Associated Press Writer
Moments after an Ecuadorean immigrant was stabbed to death during a confrontation with a group of Long Island teenagers, the youth suspected of inflicting the fatal blow admitted he had a knife and was responsible for the stabbing, one of his friends testified Monday.
Nicholas Hausch, 18, who has pleaded guilty to gang assault, conspiracy and other crimes, appeared Monday as a prosecution witness in the trial of Jeffrey Conroy.
Prosecutors say Conroy was one of seven teens, including Hausch, who surrounded and killed Marcelo Lucero on a Patchogue street in November 2008. Conroy, who has pleaded not guilty, is the only one charged with murder and manslaughter as a hate crime; prosecutors say he is the one who actually stabbed Lucero.
Hausch also has admitted participating in other attacks on Hispanics, including an incident about 24 hours before Lucero was killed in which he and two friends - not Conroy - fired a BB gun at a Hispanic person.
Posted By: Ayanna Spikes
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