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Man Killed In Hattieville, 10 Year Old Injured
posted (April 10, 2012)
And as police were finishing up at that crime scene, the call came in about the weekend's murder #3. This one happened at mile 15 and a half in Hattieville where 32 year old Elleno Requena was shot to death.

It happened on the shoulder of the Cornel English Bridge where sometime after 8:00 pm, he was walking on the bridge when a person dressed in dark clothing simply came up on him and shot him in the midsection. Requena was carrying 10 year old Cameron Williams on his back and the child was shot in his left foot with the bullet exiting and then penetrating the right foot. Requena was not so lucky, he died on the spot and today his mother told us that they have only been able to get very little information about it:..

Rachel Cain, Mother of Deceased
"I received the news about 10 o' clock last night. I was already sleeping when my mother called and told me that they knocked him down. My mother called back about 5 minutes after and told me that my nephew went to the station, and they told him that he didn't get knocked down - he was shot."

"All what I heard this morning from people from around here is that he went to Rockville to bathe and have a nice day, he was dropped home, and he went to Hattieville to buy some stuff, and coming back over, they dodged him and they kill him."

"My ex-sister-in-law told me that they told her that someone was troubling him from Hattieville; they were threatening him. That's all he told her; he didn't tell us who it was."

Reporter
"He didn't say why?"

Rachel Cain, Mother of Deceased
"He didn't say why. He just says that they were threatening him. When he was coming back they lay wait him."

Monica Bodden
"He was walking along with a 10 year old?"

Rachel Cain, Mother of Deceased
"I don't know if he was walking or riding but I got to understand that he had the child on his shoulder coming with him. When he got shot I guess the child got hurt also, he fell down."

"The child's sister told me this morning that when my son (Eleno) dropped, he fell on him (child) and his feet got damage. He (child) was trying to wake up my son but my son told him that he was going to sleep. That's all he said."

Monica Bodden
"Is the child okay?"

Rachel Cain, Mother of Deceased
"I don't know."

The 10 year old is being treated for his injuries and his family declined an interview today.

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