KS - Five men shot to death in KS/MO killing spree, 7 March 2016

[PastTense]

As law enforcement officers in mid-Missouri conducted a manhunt Tuesday morning, relatives and friends of four men slain Monday night in Kansas City, Kan., gathered at the scene to mourn those they had lost.

They remembered the victims as good friends and parents. They knew of no reasons why a neighbor, apparently on the run in Missouri, might have grabbed an assault-style gun from his house and stormed into the home where they had gathered.

Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 36, who lives next door to the quadruple homicide scene, was being sought for questioning, according to Kansas City, Kan., police, who released a description of Serrano-Vitorino’s pickup struck shortly after the killings.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...e64699427.html

[tlcya]

Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino's red Dodge Ram pickup truck was found abandoned some 180 miles east of the crime scene off Interstate 70 near New Florence, Missouri, the state police said.


Nearby, police said they found a dead 49-year-old man. They did not divulge who he was, but suspect he is connected to Serrano-Vitorino, KSHB, the NBC affiliate in Kansas City, reported.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...torino-n533951

[PastTense]

Names of 4 of the 5 victims:

A short time later, someone shot to death 49-year-old Randy J. Nordman, who lives on a road that parallels I-70 at New Florence. Authorities were looking for Serrano-Vitorino in connection with that killing, too....

But friends and neighbors identified three of them as Mike Capps, also know as Chainsaw, and brothers Clint and Austin Harter. All had lived in the Turner area at one time. Capps, the father of two young sons, lived at the house where the shootings happened. The three other victims were friends of his.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...e64699427.html

[KayElJay]

The Latest: ICE says subject of manhunt was in US illegally

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says a man who is the focus of a Missouri manhunt after five fatal shootings is a Mexican national who was in the country illegally.

The agency said in a statement Tuesday night that Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino had been previously deported from the U.S. in April 2004. ICE says he illegally re-entered the country on an unknown date.

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ICE says it will place a detainer on Serrano-Vitorino if he is taken into custody.

http://news.yahoo.com/latest-missour...QDBHNlYwNzYw--

[KayElJay]

Following up from the previous post:

Paperwork mistake kept quintuple murder suspect from being deported

Serrano-Vitorino had a court appearance in Overland Park last year and should have been deported then. He was fingerprinted on Sept. 14, 2015, after being stopped and cited for operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued an ICE detainer for Serrano-Vitorino last year, but it was sent to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office and not the Overland Park Municipal Court. Not knowing that he was wanted by federal immigration officials, Overland Park freed Serrano-Vitorino the same day.

http://m.kmbc.com/news/paperwork-mis...orted/38413402

[PastTense]

An intense manhunt for a suspect wanted in connection with five murders in Kansas City, Kansas and New Florence, Missouri has ended with the man in custody.

Authorities brought Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino into custody around midnight Tuesday night near Interstate 70 and Highway 19 in Montgomery County, FOX2’s George Sells

http://fox2now.com/2016/03/09/quintu...sive-manhunt/#

Update at 1 a.m. Wednesday: The Missouri Highway Patrol says that Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 40, who suspected of gunning down five people, four of them in Kansas City, Kan., was arrested overnight in Montgomery County, Mo. He was armed, but no other details about the arrest were available. The patrol plans a briefing around 2 a.m.

A pair of helicopters hovered over a rural area in east central Missouri Tuesday afternoon as nearly 100 law enforcement officers searched for a man suspected of gunning down five people, four of them in Kansas City, Kan.

People near the Montgomery County search area were advised to stay inside and lock their doors while officers and heavily armed tactical response teams scoured a hilly, heavily wooded area that included creeks, barns and outbuildings.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...e64842177.html

[Tulessa]

Manhunt for suspect in KC quadruple homicide, murder in Montgomery County.

http://fox2now.com/2016/03/08/state-...nd-along-i-70/

[DropthePuck]

Manhunt for suspect in KC quadruple homicide, murder in Montgomery County.

http://fox2now.com/2016/03/08/state-...nd-along-i-70/

He was apprehended around midnight last night, thank goodness!! What a monster.

[pappa rob]

The more of these idiots off the street the better for us all.

[KayElJay]

Missouri seeking death penalty in Montgomery County homicide

A hearing for a Mexican national accused of killing a man in Missouri and four others in Kansas is being postponed, with prosecutors planning to seek the death penalty in the Missouri case.

Court records show that a Montgomery County judge on Wednesday delayed Pablo Serrano-Vitorino’s preliminary hearing from April 28 to May 12 at the request of Serrano’s attorneys. Prosecutors didn’t oppose the delay.

http://fox4kc.com/2016/04/20/missour...unty-homicide/

[KayElJay]

The rifle seized by state troopers from Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino at the end of a 17-hour manhunt was linked by ballistics to the death of a stranger who lived nearby, investigators testified in a hearing Thursday.

Associate Circuit Judge Kelly C. Broniec ordered that Serrano-Vitorino — who allegedly killed Randy J. Nordman of New Florence on March 8 while on the run after a quadruple murder in Kansas — must stand trial here for first-degree murder, armed criminal action and burglary.

The preliminary hearing replaces the grand jury process commonly used in urban areas as a path to trial. The next hearing will be June 1.

Serrano-Vitorino, 40, also faces first-degree murder charges in Kansas City, Kan., where he lived and is accused of fatally shooting four men in a neighbor’s home.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...ca81e999d.html

[KayElJay]

Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino faces the death penalty for allegedly killing a Missouri man while fleeing a multiple-murder scene near Kansas City.

Montgomery County Prosecuting Attorney Nathan Carroz on Friday filed court papers explaining his decision to seek capital punishment. Serrano-Vitorino, 40, of Kansas City, Kan., is charged with first-degree murder in the killing on March 8 of Randy J. Nordman of New Florence, Mo., south of Montgomery City.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/s...cfebc892d.html

[KayElJay]

MONTGOMERY CITY — A Mexican national charged with five shooting deaths pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of a Missouri man.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/...019030849.html

[glf]

At least he is going to be chgd and stand trial for these horrible killings! He needs to be punished and not just given a free ride back to Mexico.

[KayElJay]

A 40-year-old man accused of killing a Missouri man and four Kansas residents earlier this year will get a new judge in his Missouri trial.

http://cjonline.com/news/2016-08-03/...-murder-trial#

The new judge will consider Serrano-Vitorino's change of venue request.