Footie coach murder suspect in shootout
Fugitive ‘kills two police’ as he is arrested 6yrs after man dies in NYC
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Orea (far right) and knife victim Michael fled again but was finally cornered hours later in a rural town. He had two guns, prosecutors said, but was held without a struggle. Michael, a British youth coach with New York Red Bulls football team, was slashed in the neck and chest, and had an ear lopped off in the attack in Union Square, Manhattan. Orea is thought to have mistaken Michael for a man who intervened in a fight with a woman at a bar earlier.
Michael’s family and friends have been informed of Thursday’s arrest.
Mexican authorities are now deciding whether Orea will be extradited to America and put on trial for Michael’s October 2012 murder, or be tried in Mexico first for killing the two officers.
In 2013, Orea allegedly left a note with a brother in New York apologising for killing soccer-mad Michael, of Tarleton, Lancs. Michael studied sports science at Edge Hill University in nearby Ormskirk, before joining the Red Bulls.
At the New York team’s first match after his killing, players – including then skipper Thierry Henry and ex-everton star Tim Cahill – wore tribute shirts as fans took part in a minute’s applause.
A year on from Michael’s death, his distraught dad Perry said: “We have to learn to live with the heartache and the incessant thought of the harm that was done to him, the pain he must have suffered.”
He added that his son was “a football mad, crazy fool, with a soft heart that never did anybody any harm – he was a lover not a fighter”.
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