Elderly Arizona Rancher Pleads Not Guilty To Shooting Illegal Immigrant Trespassing On His Property

A rancher from Arizona, an elderly man accused of killing an illegal Mexican immigrant who was trespassing onto his land in Arizona, has pleaded guilty to second-degree Murder.

George Alan Kelly, age 74, was first charged with the murder of Gabriel Cuen Butimea (Fox News), who was an illegal immigrant. reported. The Daily Mail reports that the migrant was deported several times prior to his death. reportedThis was most recently seen in 2016.

A judge late last month announced It was decided that the murder charge would now be reduced to second degree. Kelly, according to the New York Post, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Monday. reported.

Kelly was scheduled to stand trial on September 6. Judge Thomas Fink granted Kelly’s request for a two month extension in order to speak with her experts. Kelly also requested an additional search warrant, which was executed on Kelly’s property.

The Daily Wire was informed by Larkin that although she could not comment on the matter to the media, she did tell The Daily Wire. “we cannot try this case in the press, or in any place that is outside of the courtroom,” That is where the defense lies “confident that Mr. Kelly is an innocent man, based on his long history of law-abiding behavior, and based on the uncontroverted facts of this case.”

Kelly was freed on February 24, after posting a bond of $1 million. Kelly’s defense claims that he fired only warning shots with his guns into the air, and not at anyone. reported. Kelly reportedly said this to investigators. He claimed that Cuen-Butimea was found dead on Kelly’s property while checking on his horse. Kelly also stated that he had seen men carrying AK-47s around the property.

Larkin stated in court that on February 22, her client was being frame by human traffickers. “securing their route” Kelly’s property, and to serve as an example to anyone who might want to take on Kelly.

“Absolutely the least likely thing that happened in this case is that Mr. Kelly randomly decided to … start shooting at random people,” Larkin claimed that there had been a dispute in court. “large incentive” For witnesses to step forward and lie “succumbing to pressure from traffickers.”

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Kelly is being arrested at a time when illegal border crossings continue their rise. an estimated 5.5 million migrants According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform data, crossings have not occurred during the Biden Administration so far.

Miranda Devine, a columnist for the New York Post pointed out the failures of the Biden administration to secure the border.

“Government abandons the border, leaving elderly rancher and sick wife stuck in a lawless badlands run by cartels,” She tweeted Kelly’s name. “So he uses his legal gun to protect himself from trespassers of unknown intent and now is in jail on $1m bail while his wife is home alone.”

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