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Jesus Medrano III (Kenosha County)
KENOSHA COUNTY, WISCONSIN: Wisconsin authorities allege that a man from Kenosha County murdered his father and stepmother after being caught molesting a young female relative in the family s home. Kenosha police said that Jesus V. Medrano III, 24, had hacked to death his father, Jesus Jesse Medrano, Jr, 49, and his wife, Latrice Meyers-Medrano, 36. They were found stabbed to death last week, while four other children were also found in the family home.
Medrano III has been detained on two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, attempted first-degree sexual assault, and physical abuse of a child. He is being held on a $2.5 million bond.
BY DENEEN SMITH
Friends and family devastated by the murders of Latrice Meyers-Medrano and her husband Jesus âJesseâ Medrano, Jr. are trying to raise money to pay for the coupleâs funerals and to provide for the children left behind.
The couple was killed Wednesday, allegedly stabbed and slashed to death by Medranoâs son Jesus Medrano III after Medrano Jr. walked in on his son attempting to sexually assault a child in their home. Four children who lived in the home three that were the couplesâ children, one a grandchild were witnesses in the attack.
Medrano III was charged Friday with two counts of first degree intentional homicide, attempted first degree sexual assault and child abuse. He is being held on $2.5 million bond.
As two Kenosha Police officers searched for the suspect of a gruesome double homicide in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday, they learned someone reported hearing a person pounding on a door on 43rd Street.
The officers walked around the house, following fresh foot tracks through the snow. When they saw a back door to the house ajar, and a second door appearing to lead to a cellar, one of the officers pulled the unlocked door open.
Jesus V. Medrano III, covered with blood, was sitting on the cellar steps, his back to the door, a machete in his right hand.
âJust kill me,â Medrano said.