HATE CRIME: ILLEGAL ALIEN KILLS MAN FOR BEING GAY

PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL (The Palm Beach Post) – A man who was murdered early Sunday morning was defending his gay friends from a man who said “I hate you (expletive) gays, I’m going to kill you all here,” witnesses told the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Nelson Hernandez Mena, 48, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. He made a court appearance Monday morning.

The incident happened after Mena followed a group from a Salvadoran restaurant in Lake Worth, a witness told police.

The victim, Juan Javier Cruz, 22, died in the shooting. Multiple witnesses confirmed that Mena followed Cruz and his friends out of Restaurante y Pupuseria Las Flores in downtown Lake Worth and threatened them for being gay.

According to one bystander, Mena told Cruz right before the shooting, “If we were in my country I’d kill all of you like rats.”

After Cruz defended his friends, Mena, who later admitted to...Read More HERE