I began following this story the day after the murders because Lori Ann (the mother in this story) was formerly cleaning the home of a friend of mine's sister and she also worked at a day-care owned by one of our family members who lives in Antioch. Once the story about the possible involvement of Jose' Sosa was made public, I learned that Lori Ann had notified authorities on SEVERAL occasions about the illegals living next door but could never get I.C.E. nor the metro police to intercede. Now, thanks to the "catch and release policies practiced by the U.S. Border Patrol and the in-action by both local organizations, she and her daughter, are DEAD!
Please also see our announcement concerning President Bush's planned Monday night address below the articles about the Nashville murders.
Theresa Harmon
Tennesseans for Responsible Immigration Policies
www.TnRIP.org
Saturday, 05/13/06
Three fingerprints link suspect to stabbing deaths, detective testifies
By TRAVIS LOLLER
Staff Writer
Three fingerprints link 16-year-old Jose Sosa to last month's stabbing deaths of Lori Ann and Adrian Rountree in south Nashville, police detectives testified on Friday.
The mother and daughter were found dead in their Creekside Drive home on April 25. Sosa, who lived next door, was arrested Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.
Police offered no motive for the killings during Friday's hearing and said there were no witnesses who had ever seen Sosa with the victims.
"I kept asking if for any reason he had been inside the house, and he said, 'No,' " detective Marvin Rivera said. "He kept saying 'No.' "
However, detective Wil Nesbitt testified that at least one of Sosa's fingerprints was found inside the home. Two more fingerprints, one of them bloody, were found on a back door, Nesbitt said.
Lori Ann Rountree, 44, received about 37 wounds that punctured her stomach, heart, liver and major arteries. Adrian, 16, had about 46 wounds to the lungs and major arteries.
Although there were signs of a struggle at the scene, police said they did not notice any wounds on Sosa on the day they found the bodies. Nesbitt also did not see any signs of a forced entry into the house, he said.
Sosa was ordered to remain in juvenile detention until a June 23 hearing, when Assistant District Attorney Jeff Burks said he will ask to have Sosa tried as an adult.
After Friday's hearing, Juan Sosa, the defendant's brother, raised his voice and began saying in Spanish that the police had no proof against his brother. Rivera told him to step outside the courtroom and then arrested him on a charge of disorderly conduct.
Juan Sosa said in an interview on Thursday that his brother was with other people when the slaying occurred and could not have done it.
The Tennessean
Arrest made in murder of Antioch mother, daughter
May 11, 2006 11:05 PM CDT
A teenage in the United States illegally is now charged with murdering a Nashville woman and her daughter.
Jose Sosa, 16, was arrested and charged on Thursday with the murders of his former neighbors, Lori and Adrian Rountree. They were brutally stabbed to death in their Antioch home in April 2006.
Police say they found a finger print of Sosa at the crime scene that matched one the border patrol had on file of him from last year. They say he had been caught coming into the United States illegally, detained and fingerprinted and then later deported.
However, he apparently re-entered the country at a later time.
Sosa is currently being held in the Juvenile Detention Center.
Source - Channel 4 News