{"id":1721,"date":"2023-03-21T00:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2023-03-21T00:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:38:21","slug":"rancher-accused-of-killing-mexican-man-hit-with-extra-charges-as-its-revealed-8-people-were-on-his-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/21\/rancher-accused-of-killing-mexican-man-hit-with-extra-charges-as-its-revealed-8-people-were-on-his-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Rancher Accused of Killing Mexican Man Hit with Extra Charges as It\u2019s Revealed 8 People Were on His Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Alan Kelly, a rancher in Arizona, has been charged with the murder of a Mexican national.<\/p>\n<p>Chief deputy attorney for Santa Cruz County, Kimberly Hunley, said that the Mexican national was in a group of people who were unarmed.<\/p>\n<p>Hunley said that the group \u201cposed no threat to him or his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AZ: 74 y\/o George Alan Kelly arrived to his evidentiary hearing in Nogales alone this morning\u2014While his attorney recommended he didn\u2019t make a comment he told me off camera that he doesn\u2019t know what to expect today as he has never been in a situation like this. <\/p>\n<p>Hearing at 9am. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7XIxeEFGbl\">pic.twitter.com\/7XIxeEFGbl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AliBradleyTV\/status\/1629145686989246464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kelly allegedly \u201cshot at them repeatedly with an AK-47, striking and killing one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"afw afw_custom  afw_ad afwadid-113  \" data-ad-id=\"113\"><\/div>\n<p>Hunley continued, \u201cMr. Kelly shot an unarmed man in the back in an unprovoked attack as he ran for his life. There was no warning, and the victim was more than 100 yards from the defendant\u2019s residence when he was shot and killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two people who were shot have spoken up, which has led the Santa Cruz County Sheriff\u2019s Office to file an amended complaint that added two counts of aggravated assault to the first-degree murder charge Kelly faces.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly is charged with killing Gabriel Cuen-Butimea of Mexico. Cuen-Butimea had been deported to Mexico multiple times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AZ: Prosecution says there were 8 people on George Alan Kelly\u2019s ranch when he fired shots\u2014One shot allegedly killed an immigrant.<\/p>\n<p>The state believes more witnesses may come forward. <\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s bond stays at $1M but converted to a surety. Prelim hearing continued: Feb. 24th 9am. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hRQK0ZlQUM\">pic.twitter.com\/hRQK0ZlQUM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AliBradleyTV\/status\/1628444133424766976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kelly is in jail on a $1 million bond. Justice of the Peace Emilio G. Velasquez kept the amount the same but changed the conditions to a surety bond. Kelly can put up his land as the bond.<\/p>\n<p>Brenna Larkin, Kelly\u2019s attorney, said, \u201cThere was a huge divergence in how investigation and prosecution should happen and how it did happen in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Larkin continued, \u201cThere\u2019s a very large incentive structure for people to come forward and to have claimed to have been witnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can possibly obtain immigration benefits for doing so, or at least have the expectation of that, and people can succumb to pressure from traffickers who have an interest in blaming this event on Mr. Kelly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly added, \u201cTestimony is something that is bought and sold by drug traffickers the same way that drugs and people are bought and sold. It is a valuable commodity, and it is used by these traffickers to obtain what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"afw afw_custom  afw_ad afwadid-114  \" data-ad-id=\"114\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, the benefit they\u2019re getting is security for their smuggling route through Mr. Kelly\u2019s property, and they\u2019re sending a message to anybody else defending his or her own property that if you defend your property against us, you will be arrested, and there will be witnesses who come to stand against you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Alan Kelly, a rancher in Arizona, has been charged with the murder of a Mexican national. Chief deputy attorney for Santa Cruz County, Kimberly Hunley, said that the Mexican national was in a group of people who were unarmed. Hunley said that the group \u201cposed no threat to him or his family.\u201d AZ: 74 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}