IMMIGRANT WHO 'KILLED BOSTON
DOCTORS' HAS BANK-ROBBING RAPSHEET 'Why
wasn't this guy deported?' Outrage after convicted criminal allowed to stay in
U.S. by Chelsea Schilling, 5/8/17, WND
A West African immigrant who is accused
of slashing the throats of two well-respected doctors in South Boston on Friday
has a history of bank robberies and was just released from prison in April.
Police found Bampumim Teixeira, who
is a legal permanent resident, inside a $1.9 million condo belonging
to anesthesiologists Lina Bolanos, 38, and Richard Field, 49.Bolanos and Field, who were engaged
to be married, were dead inside the 11th-floor luxury penthouse. Their hands
were bound, their throats slashed and the walls smeared with blood and a
“message of retribution.”
“These are two well-respected people
killed in their penthouse apartment,” said the Boston police commissioner.
Teixeira, 30, who worked as a
security guard, engaged in a firefight with police. The suspect was shot in his
stomach, hand and leg, but he did not die. Authorities found a backpack full of
jewelry belonging to Bolanos at the scene.
“[Police] opened up the door and
shots were fired at them,” the police commissioner said. “I mean, you have a
guy here who just killed two people, and he had nothing to lose.”
Concerning Teixeira’s immigration
status, Suffolk County District Attorney spokesman Jake Wark told Heavy.com:
“From what I gather, Texeira is a lawful permanent resident. Questions about
immigration law and sanctions are best posed to federal authorities such as
ICE, since state prosecutors have no jurisdiction or standing in those
matters.”
But Immigration and Customs
Enforcement told the Daily Caller: “ICE has no legal position with regard to
this individual at this time, although we will continue to monitor the matter
in case his criminal charges change his legal disposition.”
In fact, Teixeira was fresh out
of prison in April, according to his ex-girlfriend, who said he served a nine
months in prison for robbing two banks. Teixeira pleaded guilty in September
2016 to two counts of larceny. During both of the robberies – which took place
at the same bank – the man did not carry a gun, and he passed notes to
bank employees demanding money. He was originally sentenced to 364 days in
prison, but the rest of his sentence was suspended after he served nine months.
Had Teixeira been deported after the
two bank robberies, Bolanos and Field might still be alive today. On Monday,
Jeffrey Kuhner, host
of “The Kuhner Report” on WRKO AM 680,
blasted the judge who allowed Teixeira to escape deportation.
“According to what law-enforcement
sources are telling me, he is apparently a green-card holder …,” Kuhner said.
“The one thing they stress to you when you have a green card is, you’re a
‘permanent resident,’ but it’s not permanent if you’re not law-abiding. In
other words, if you break the law, if you commit a crime, your green card
should be revoked. Then obviously if your green card is revoked, then ipso
facto, you should be deported. Why wasn’t this guy deported?
“He committed the crime. … He was
convicted of it. He was sentenced to prison. He, in fact, even had probation on
top of prison. So why was the green card not rescinded? Now the question may
lie with the judge.”
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Teixeira’s ex-girlfriend, who has
not been named, told the Boston Globe he was born in Guinea-Bissau and was
raised in Cape Verde, an island country off Africa’s west coast. He moved to
the Boston area with his aunt when he was in his 20s. But Teixeira and his
aunt had a fight, and the man became homeless, living in shelters for a time.
She described the suspected killer
as a “gentleman” who was never violent. Teixeira reportedly broke up with the
woman after six months of dating for no apparent reason, telling her he’s “not
a good person.”
When the ex-girlfriend learned of
his bank-robbing history, she asked him why he didn’t rob her.“He said, ‘No, I don’t
steal from people. I rob banks,” the woman told the Globe. ” I said, ‘OK –
but you don’t hurt people, right? He said, ‘No, no, no, I wouldn’t do something
like that.'”
Teixeira was arraigned May 8 while
he remained in a hospital bed at Tufts Medical Center. He is being charged with
two counts of murder.
At the arraignment Monday,
“not-guilty pleas to two counts of murder were entered for Teixeira, of
Chelsea, who kept his eyes closed throughout his arraignment,” reported the
Associated Press. Teixeira was ordered held without bail.
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