Illegal alien gets six months in prison for killing roommate

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On Wednesday, a judge in Petersburg, Va. sentenced Norman Jose Carcamo-Arias, 25, to 10 years in prison with nine years and six months suspended. In December 2009, he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his roommate, Josiel Venturi Garcia-Orbina, 24.

Since Arias, a Honduran national, has already been in jail for a year, local law enforcement are now just waiting for him to be picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.

Petersburg Senior Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Kenneth Blalock told the Richmond-Times Dispatch: “They said they were going to come down and pick him up to deport him back to Honduras.”

On Jan. 8, 2009, police arrived at the apartment responded Arias and Orbina, shared, along with three others. There, they found Orbina’s body with a fatal shotgun blast to the neck.

Two of his roommates claimed that they came home and found Orbina dead, and had no idea how he was killed.

When police caught up to Arias, he told them that the homicide was the result of a bad drug deal, and that an unidentified black male shot Orbina.

Eventually, all of them recanted their stories and admitted that Arias shot Orbina, after the two had apparently been playing with a shotgun, pointing it at one another.

Blalock described Arias’ actions: “He apparently pulled the trigger and nothing happened, he then cocked the gun and pulled the trigger again. The second time the gun fired.”

When Orbina fell dead, his four roommates ran from the apartment, bringing the gun with them.

Blalock said: “When they left, they gave the gun to someone on the street. Then they took Carcamo-Arias to Richmond and let him out of the car before returning to the apartment and calling police.”

All of the roommates are in the country illegally.

 

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