Bond set at $5M each for suspects in murders of 2 homeless men
Three teenagers, two of them clad in gray T-shirts and dark blue pants given to them at the juvenile detention center, appeared before a judge Monday to face murder charges in the beating death of two homeless Navajo men – a savage attack that shocked Albuquerque, New Mexico and the nation.
The two victims, who had not been identified late Monday, were beaten so brutally with cinder block and a pole that they were unrecognizable.
But a homeless man named Emerson Roanhorse, 62, waiting at a bus stop Monday near the vacant lot in northwest Albuquerque where the beating occurred said he knew the slain men as “Coyboy” and “Yazzie.”
Roanhorse said both were Navajo, like him. He had been drinking with the two men Friday night and had slept in a corner of the vacant lot, and he saw part of the attack before running away. He said he saw the boys hit one of the homeless men with what looked like a bat.
“The man was just sleeping. Can you hit a man like that? A homeless man? I don’t like it,” an emotional Roanhorse said. He said the boys were cowards.
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