To not Punish a person who murders another, is the same Exact thing as PUNISHING THE VICTIM!
Eloy Conrad Duran III will always be remembered by Unit
1012. As he was born on November 10, 1984, we
will remember him on his birthday and treasure the precious memories of his
life on earth. We shall also not forget him on the date he left this earth on
January 3, 2010
"So long as we live, they too shall live and love for they are a part of us as we remember them."- Gates of Prayer
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Eloy Conrad Duran III
(November 10, 1984 to January 3, 2010)
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SOURCE: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_15281292
Griego: A mourning father's
pursuit of justice
By Tina
Griego
Denver
Post Columnist
Posted:
06/12/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT4 Comments
Here is a father. He wears slacks and a dress shirt and a necktie and sits across the table from me at a neighborhood restaurant. He has before him some papers and a small digital recorder and appears to be a businessman working over a late breakfast.
Look
closer and his exhaustion is apparent. His face is sallow, as if he had been
sick, as if all that is holding him together are the tie and the nice slacks.
He talks
about his son. About when he was a baby they called him the Michelin Man
because he had so many rolls of fat. He was an athlete — baseball, football,
basketball — and had a ton of friends who knew him to be generous and loyal and
protective of them. The father tells you his son graduated from Kennedy High
School and became a father at 20. When the economy tanked, his son lost his job
and he and his daughter moved in. His son found work cleaning gutters.
The
father laughs and says his son liked to hoist his little girl over his shoulder
and carry her downstairs so they could all eat breakfast together.
The
father says he and his son did everything together. They went fishing, to the
movies, to church, and on summer evenings, they sat outside and talked. He says
his son was a good man, a gentleman. The father pushes the stack of papers
toward me: "The autopsy report is there."
"Name
of decedent: Eloy Conrad Duran III. Date and time of death: January 3, 2010;
0858 hours. Age: 25 years. Diagnoses: Sharp force injuries: a) stab wound of
the chest with injury to the right ventricle and right lung b) stab wound of
the right posterior shoulder with injury to the skin and subcutaneous tissue c)
five incised wounds involved the right and left arms with injury to the skin,
subcutaneous tissue and muscle."
It goes
on for nine pages. Eloy Conrad Duran III was beaten and stabbed. This happened
at house party at West Fourth Avenue and Utica Street a little after 2 a.m. on
Jan. 3.
Police
arrested 17-year-old Jovani Muniz. The district attorney's office charged him
as an adult with first-degree murder. Muniz pleaded guilty in exchange for the
lesser charge of second-degree murder. Because he had no previous criminal
record, he was given a 21-year suspended sentence in adult corrections and
seven years in the Youth Offender System. If Muniz does his time in the youth
system without incident, he will be freed. Otherwise, he will face 21 years in
adult lockup.
This is a
matter of record. It is not the whole story.
Left
behind is Eloy Conrad Duran II, who believes his son was set up and jumped at
that party by gangsters. He believes others should be punished. He believes
seven years for the life of his son does not even come close to justice.
"It's
a farce," Duran says. "My son is dead and (Muniz) will be in YOS
taking college classes."
What you
need to know about the particular hell Duran occupies is that since his son was
killed, he has lost his job, he is filing for bankruptcy, and on that recorder
are interviews he started conducting after the May sentencing with witnesses to
his son's death.
A young
man kills another and from this act come ripples and some of those ripples are
tidal waves. I sit with a father, who has at home his 13-year-old son and his
slain son's 6-year-old daughter, and I can provide no answers. The police tell
me they are not looking for any other suspects. The D.A.'s office says it did
not have the evidence to support the scenario Duran posits. Not the
premeditation, the beat-down, the gang involvement, though Muniz may have been
part of a tagging crew.
All the
while, whispers reach Duran's ears: People were drinking and your son, 6 feet,
260 pounds, was really drunk and looking for a fight and 10, 15 guys jumped him
and then handed the knife to a 115-pound kid because he'd get less time.
How else,
Duran wonders, could a scrawny teen take down a big man?
So, he
searches for evidence to persuade police to reopen the case. He undertakes a
dangerous course.
I do not
presume to know his suffering. I do not know what it is to imagine my child's
final moments or to sit in a courtroom and hear the words "seven
years."
I speak
to him of his younger son and his granddaughter and he says: "They are all
that keep me going now. This is what I have to do. I don't believe justice was
served, and I don't know, frankly, what to do about it."
Listen to
the recording, he says. I hear him interviewing a girl. She says she saw 10
guys surrounding his son. (Another will tell him she saw four.) "Was this
person there?" Duran says. He has photos. "I don't care about
names." But the girl is hesitant now. "I don't know," she says.
I hear a
desperate father who forgets to stop recording after he finishes talking to the
girl. I hear his footsteps and his breathing. I hear him open the car door. I
hear him settle in his seat. I hear him cry.
Tina
Griego writes Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Reach her at 303-954-2699 or tgriego@denverpost.com.
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SOURCE: http://www.teenkillers.org/index.php/memorials/colorado-victims/eloy-conrad-duran-iii/
From the Father’s Victim Impact Statement:
It is said
that only the good die young, I truly believe this…Eloy Conrad Duran III my
son…is a man whom, anybody that knew him, if only for an instant, would see
immediately, that he was a very special human being, he had the love and
compassion for life like no other, he was a loving, caring, respectful, honest,
trustworthy, reliable, person, he truly cared for humanity, and all living
things…Conrad is 25 yrs. young, if he were alive today, he would be able to tell
you himself of how he was tragically and horrifically tortured, mutilated, and
then murdered…of how, in an instant, his life was taken, from this earth, from
us… forever….but, unfortunately, Conrad cannot…because Jovani Muniz…ultimately,
made that decision that morning to take another human beings life…taking our
loved one away from us…forever….Conrad was brutally beaten, tortured, and then
murdered…Conrad was murdered…savagely, without mercy, without remorse, Conrad
was stabbed in the heart, Conrad was stabbed in the lung, by gang member Jovani
Muniz…but before that happened, he was obviously jumped before he was murdered
by Jovani Muniz…jumped by no less than 7 individuals…the word on the street is
that they were gang members…who wanted my son dead, why, we may never know…my
son was not a gang member, he did not live that type of life…the autopsy report
says it all…My son was tortured, mutilated…he tried to defend himself, his arms
raised to get away from the swords or knifes…Conrad had multiple… major cuts…on
both of his arms…cuts that show the rage of Jovani…and these hoodlums…Conrads
arms were sliced…all the way through his muscles and tendons, to the bone…major
blunt trama to his skull, major blunt trama to most of his body…I cannot begin
to imagine the excruciating, unimaginable pain and suffering that this man and
his friends, thugs, put on my son Conrad, Conrad was unable to leave that
place, he tried to get away, in obviously the most painful set of circumstances
a human could possibly be dealt….but he only made it a few feet before he fell
to his death, in a pool of blood… no man deserves to go through what my son had
to go through…no one…Jovani Miuniz played god that early morning of January 03,
2010., Jovani took a life, the life of a gentleman…an honest, a good, decent,
caring, giving, compassionate, god fearing, father, son, grandson, nephew,
cousin, friend…of so many…
Conrad has a
5yr old daughter, her name is Desirae…she has been emotionally and phsically
devasted by this, as we all are…but Conrad was Desiraes world, she has had so
little time on this earth, and now, her world is gone…. she will now have to
grow up without the most important person in her life…her dad…her da da…Conrad
cannot be there for Desirae, for anything…anymore, all hopes, all dreams, all
financial security…gone…Conrad and Desirae were inseperable…sun-up to
sundown…happy, just to be with each other, he was there for her, at her every
beckoning…to teach her, with loving compassion…he was the true definition of
father…my son had big dreams for the both of them…Conrad was looking forward to
a long, honest, fruitful life of happiness…a life filled with love and
harmony…with continued solid family values…Desirae no longer has that most
important person, her father, to shape her life, to teach her, to love her…as
only a father can do…My family has been dealt the most agonizing, devastating,
unbelievable atrosity imaginable, murder, in the first degree…and we will never
be able to come to terms with what this man did…this murderous act is
everlasting, unbearable…and unacceptable…and today your honor…the injustice
continues…this is not justifiable murder…the very thought of Jovani Muniz
getting away with murder is horrendous, and this is what we are facing here
today, the YOS is not acceptable, 48 years minimum isnt enough, but it would be
tolerable, … the YOS is a school, a College…it should only be for juveniles
that can actually return to society, and be a productive citizen in our
community…not for people who committ murder…this is not punishment, it is a
blessing for him, ….he gets an education, he gets a degree…and he gets out
scott free…free to kill again, free to walk the streets again, free to do
whatever he wants to..again…56% of murderers who attend the YOS come out of there
to continue with there feloious acts…WHAT ABOUT MY SON… how dare you …how can
this court, even for a second, ponder the thought of rehabilitation…for a
cowardess act of murder, this man is a monster…Jovani Muniz willfully, and
maliciously, murdered my son Eloy Conrad Duran III…my son would be here today
to live his life to a ripe old age…if it was’nt for the actions taken
willingly, by Jovani Muniz…You must reconsider…Jovani, you are a murderer…and
you must be dealt with as such….I spoke to no less than 3 people who were there
at that party on 4th and Utica st. on January 03rd…when Conrad was murdered,
who told me what happened…two of them were at the hospital immediately after my
son was admitted…they told me my son was jumped by a bunch of gang members, tortured,
and then saw Jovani Muniz stab and kill my son, …why is it that they decided to
not tell the whole truth to the homocide detectives…it is because they got
calls from these thugs that jumped my son, telling them that if they implicated
them, then they themselves would be killed, were these witnesses offered
protection…we are not doing the right and justifiable thing here…my son did not
deserve any of this…my family doesnt deserve any of this, his daughter doesnt
deserve to grow up without her dad…
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Eloy Conrad Duran III
(November 10, 1984 to January 3, 2010)
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