He was also charged with shooting another woman.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: An illegal immigrant suspected of murdering one woman, wounding another, and attempting to rape a 14-year-old girl was released earlier this month by Ohio sheriff’s deputies after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents told them not to hold him, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
Juan Emmanuel Razo, 35, appeared for his arraignment July 28 in Ohio’s Painesville Municipal Court a day after being arrested and charged with shooting one woman and is also suspected of shooting another woman and attempting to rape a teenage girl.
Thus far, Razo only has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a woman who was walking on a bike path with her two children.
However, according to The News-Herald, However, an investigation is continuing and more charges are expected to be filed against Razo in connection with the fatal shooting of Margaret Kostelnik at her Ravenna Road in Concord Township, and the attempted rape of a 14-year-old girl at Lake Metroparks Helen Hazen Wyman Park, also in Concord.
“I have somebody who we don’t know who he is, why he is in this country, why he is here illegally, and why he allegedly committed a murder,” Painesville Municipal Court Judge Michael Cicconetti stated at Razo’s arraignment, noting the suspect has no green card, birth certificate or driver’s license.
Cicconetti, who set bail at $10 million, later told Fox News he did not understand how federal authorities could have ordered Razo released on July 7 when local deputies questioned him and contacted Border Protection officials, given that no one could even verify his identity.
At the arraignment, the sheriff’s department also recounted that Razo was detained regarding a “suspicious vehicle” incident and that the U.S. Border Patrol agents told sheriff’s deputies that he was here illegally from Mexico but border patrol agents refused to arrest him.
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