The Associated Press is facing criticism for leaving out key details in its original story about the assault and murder of a 12-year-old girl by two Venezuelans who recently entered the United States illegally.
Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, and Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, Accused He is accused of luring Jocelyn Nangaray of Houston, Texas, under a bridge, holding her there for two hours, stripping her pants, tying her up, killing her, and then dumping her body in the bayou.
Fox News national correspondent Bill Melgin confirmed that both men entered the country illegally in El Paso, Texas, earlier this year and were processed by the Border Patrol and released.
“The whole article makes no mention of the murderer being an illegal immigrant.”
Many of these details would not be apparent if one read the AP article alone. report It categorizes the suspects simply as “two men” but does not inform readers of their nationality or legal status – facts that have been widely publicized.
Police said Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, are each charged with murder in the death of Jocelyn Nungaray. A medical examiner determined Nungaray’s cause of death was strangulation. It was unclear whether the two suspects still had attorneys. Their names were not listed in jail or court records as of Thursday afternoon.
Because the Associated Press is a news agency, its reporting on the incident was reprinted in many other national and local newspapers across the country, despite being lacking in details.
X users criticized the Associated Press for not disclosing the cause of this tragic death.
Unfortunately, Nungarei’s case is not the only one in which illegal immigrants have been accused of taking advantage of the border crisis created by the Biden administration in various murders across the U.S. This week alone, there have been several new cases in which illegal immigrants are allegedly behind horrific crimes.
Washington Examiner report On Friday, an illegal immigrant from Honduras who was released into the United States under the Biden administration pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Iowa.
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