3 suspects in May shooting are illegal immigrants, feds say

Published August 19, 2008 4:00am ET



Federal officials have determined the three men accused of shooting and killing a Manassas man in May are illegal immigrants.

One of those three, Sebastian Cortes-Hernandez, 24, also known as “Onion” and “Cebolla,” returned to the United States after being deported to Mexico in 2003.

On May 31, Omar Florencio-Vazquez, 24, was at the Grant Avenue Shopping Center in Manassas with two of his brothers and a cousin when they spotted a group of 12 men they had been in a fight with two weeks earlier, court records show.

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