Photo from Mitsu Yasukawa/The Star-Ledger

Jose Carranza, 28, also known as Jose Larchire, was named today as the “principal suspect” in the slaughter that has stirred outrage in the city and beyond its borders. Carranza — who surrendere in person to Newark Mayor Cory Booker — and a 15-year-old boy arrested Wednesday night are charged with murder, robbery and weapons offenses in the killings. Authorities are still hunting for other possible suspects. Link

I owe young black males a heartfelt apology. When this story first broke, I angrily said that I believed that those who killed these students in cold blood were black males. I was wrong. Instead, the alleged killer—at least one of them, is from Peru. I don’t know yet whether or not he is in this country legally but I DO know that he is a child molester with a record a mile long:

He had been indicted by Essex County grand juries twice this year: once in April on aggravated assault and weapons charges; and once in July on 31 counts, including aggravated sexual assault of a child under 13 years old and endangering the welfare of a child he had a duty to supervise, court records show.

With plea negotiations ongoing in the first case, Carranza was due to appear in court later this month, court records show. Instead, he is back in custody today after his fingerprint — contained in a State Police database — was matched to one lifted off a beer bottle found at the crime scene in Newark’s Ivy Hill section, authorities said. Link

Because this wicked monkey needs to post a million dollar bail to get out, I think he’ll be in jail for quite some time. And let’s pray that his fifteen year old accomplice is charged as an adult.

I also covered story HERE   and HERE