El Salvadoran ‘Got Away’ Charged in Carjacking Killing in America’s Wealthiest County
Just another one of those migrant crimes that supposedly doesn’t happen
By Andrew R. Arthur on August 1, 2024
On July 30, a local NBC affiliate reported that police had arrested Jose Aguilar-Martinez, aged 21, for the carjacking of a 54-year-old mother and grandmother, Melody Waldecker, in Sterling, Va., a D.C. suburb. Aguilar-Martinez allegedly hit and killed Waldecker as he was leaving the scene. Omitted from that report is a fact included by the local Fox outlet in its story about the arrest: the suspect is an illegal migrant from El Salvador. Regrettably, this is just another of those crimes that supposedly doesn’t happen.
The 7-Eleven in Loudon County. It’s possible, if not likely, that NBC4 News Washington had no idea of the suspect’s status at the time it ran its piece.
Their report includes a lot of other facts that set the scene of that alleged crime:
Melody Waldecker, 54, had just walked into a 7-Eleven at the Town Center at Sterling shopping center when she noticed a man getting into her Kia Sorento and tried to stop him, her family members said.
Jose Aguilar-Martinez, 21, took off in the Sorento and hit Waldecker with her own car, the Loudoun County Sheriff's office said in a release Tuesday.
Waldecker, a mother of four and grandmother to eight, died at the scene of the crash, the sheriff's office said.
https://cis.org/Arthur/El-Salvadoran-Got-Away-Charged-Carjacking-Killing-Americas-Wealthiest-County
