Man who shot three people in Salem park gets life term
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The man who opened fire on three men in a Salem park in 2009 was sentenced Monday to life in prison.
Twenty-one-year-old Lorenzo Garcia-Ceja won't be eligible for parole until he's 60.
The Statesman Journal reports he pleaded guilty to murder in the death of 21-year-old Montez Bailey of Salem and pleaded no contest to attempted murder for wounding two of Bailey's friends in Northgate Park.
Garcia-Ceja fled to Mexico after the shooting and was arrested in 2010. He fought extradition but was returned to Salem last March for prosecution.
On June 3, 2010, Mexican law enforcement officers, in cooperation with the FBI, arrested Lorenzo Garcia-Ceja and Manuel Garcia-Ceja in Zamora and the pair were transported to a prison in Mexico City for processing.
On Nov. 3, 2010, Manuel Garcia-Ceja was extradited back to the United States.
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21 and life in prison. Was it worth it?
$75 a head at the Hilton fund raiser for the SHARE House excruciatingly boring.
You like Boring? some of us apparently really do like boring so heres what you do you Move to Boring Oregon ride the SAM to Fishers Landing in the Couve and then tak a C-Tran bus across the river to the MAX and then ride the MAX Blue line to your desk job in a Cubicle in Hillsboro City Hall! SUPER MEGA BORING
They look like pretty pre op transgender ladies mm mm ought to be getting rich in jail practicing the worlds oldest profession.
He receives life, yet he gave his victims death.
Oh, and the Statesman Journal story includes a considerably LESS FLATTERING photo of the perp as he appeared for sentencing:Â
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Wow, 39 years in Oregon state custody. Â Let's do the math here: Â 39 X $30,000 (conservative estimate of cost per annum as of most recent stats I have onhand..) = a $1.17 million crime. Â And, if he 'fled to Mexico' that immediately brings up the question of if he is here legally (or not). Â And brilliant politicians like Gov K wonder why we are having a budget shortfall in recent years. Â Why do we NEED to import murderers again? Anyone? Beuhler??
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The one truly amazing part of this story  is that the Mexican Federal Police actually captured the guy, and had the resources/integrity to extradite him back to the US.  I see no mention of his natural citizenship in the story (not surprising, since this is an AP feed).
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 @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsPhredE It averages just under $20,000 per year to keep someone incarcerated in Oregon. It can cost over $2 million for a death penalty. The death penalty is almost always much more expensive. Besides, can you imagine the how torturous it would be not being able to leave for the rest of your life! Death is far to fast and painless
The "Beuhler" part was clever