On July 11 two white men, one a US Army veteran, were attacked by a large group of black teens in a Walmart parking lot in Rhode Island. Both whites were stabbed with the Army veteran dying of his wounds. Now a black teen has been arrested and charged with the murder. Mysteriously, Al Sharpton and the so-called “black lives matters” crew are nowhere to be seen.
An 18-year-old African American was arrested for the murder and is being charged as an adult for murdering a veteran of the actions in Afghanistan who had a three-year-old daughter.
Erico Montalvo, of 10 Pocasset Ave., wore no expression as he was led handcuffed into District Court early Friday morning to face the charges. The timing, coincidentally, was just before the funeral Mass for 26-year-old Colby Mendonca of Pawtucket.
Mendonca and his friend, Russell Gleason, 25, were in the parking lot behind the Walgreens at 533 Elmwood Ave. just before 2 a.m. when they got into an argument with strangers, according to police. The argument became a fight that left Gleason badly injured and Mendonca dead.
Special Assistant Attorney General Meg McDonough told Magistrate Joseph Ippolito that Montalvo admitted to Providence investigators that he’d been at the scene and had stabbed both men.
Montalvo was charged with murder and assault with a dangerous weapon, both felonies. No plea was entered, and the magistrate ordered Montalvo held without bail, pending a hearing on July 28.
Where’s Jesse? Where’s Al?