Monday, November 17, 2008

"Nobody Deserves a Death Like This"

More than a week ago we reported on the horrendous murder of a white marine and his black wife by 4 black marines. We now have an update. As the story went:

A Brooklyn-raised Marine sergeant and his new bride were tortured and killed execution-style in their California home - allegedly by four other Marines under his command.

Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak, who was raised in Bensonhurst, and his wife, Quiana, were found bound and gagged in the ransacked house, each shot in the head.
And now, this update from the Daily News:

A stack of wedding thank-you cards were waiting to be mailed when four Marines allegedly burst into the California home of Brooklyn-bred Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak and his new bride, Quiana.

By the time the bullets hit their brains, the newlyweds had been bound and gagged, forced to endure sadistic torture - and she had been violated repeatedly, court records show.

"Nobody deserves a death like this, least of all good, young people with bright futures," Riverside County prosecutor Daniel Delimon said.

Investigators say the motive for the shocking murders was robbery, but neither Pietrzak's mother in Brooklyn nor his in-laws near San Diego believe that.

"Nobody does something like this to human beings just to rob them," said Henryka Pietrzak-Varga. "They wanted to hurt them."

Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak's father said he's heard talk that the Marines - all of whom are black - visited pain on his gorgeous 26-year-old daughter because she was black and Pietrzak was white. But he's not ready to accept that horrible possibility.

Investigators are also checking whether one of the accused Marines, Lance Cpl. Tyrone Miller, had ties to the violent Crips gang.

Born in Poland and raised in Bensonhurst, the strikingly handsome Pietrzak, 24, had served for a year in Iraq and escaped without being wounded. Pietrzak's luck ran out last month when two Marines he worked with at Miramar Air Station in San Diego - Miller, 20, and Pvt. Emrys John, 18 - and two others, burst into the couples' five-bedroom home, police said.

After allegedly killing the Pietrzaks, they made off with Quiana's engagement ring, the sergeant's digital camera and other wedding gifts. They left behind the expensive telescope that Pietrzak had bought for himself - and which he used to study the stars, sources said.

Some of the stolen items were found later at the accused Marines' barracks at Camp Pendleton.

When Pietrzak failed to show up for work, his superiors contacted the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. Deputies arriving at the Pietrzak home found the door unlocked and the couple dead in the living room.

None of the suspects has entered a plea. They have already ratted out John as the triggerman who shot the Pietrzaks in the back of their heads, prosecutors said.

All the suspects admit that Quiana was sexually assaulted, but with a possible death penalty hanging over their heads, none is admitting to attacking her.

Pvt. Kesuan Sykes, 21, whose nickname is Psycho, has admitted cutting off the woman's clothes, according to court records. The fourth Marine was identified as Pvt. Kevin Cox, 20.

Seven days after the murders, Cox wrote on his Facebook page that he was "stressin' the F- out :( ."

And this, the mother of the murdered marine has written a letter asking for Obama's help. This is sad as she is asking for Obama to help by bringing change. But as you will see, crime rates will increase in an Obama administration. I will guarantee you that.

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