"What we have is a bunch of teenagers, drunk and stoned - chemicals played a major role in this - who came to Houston from The Woodlands," Hill said. Should Buice be freed on parole, Hill has vowed to name him as his successor as host to KPFT-FM's (90.1) long-running call-in prison program. I am a gay man they are friends of mine." "I know them," Hill said of the inmates, "and I've come to learn that they are not homophobic. Hill said Thursday that he has contacted a lawyer to try to stop the Aguirres' deportation.
"We essentially kept them (the Aguirres) as long as we possibly could," said Andy Kahan, the mayor's crime-victim advocate. Rodriguez, who now lives in Georgia, has testified at more than 20 parole hearings to keep the killers behind bars. Buice's next parole hearing is set for October. A third killer in the case, Leandro Ramirez, 32, is scheduled to be paroled in March.Īfter Ramirez's release, only Jon Buice, the convicted knife man who was sentenced to 45 years, will remain in prison.