It's been 38 years since St. Romero's murder.
Let justice be done at last.
Let the truth be told in open public courts.
El Salvador's government officials ordered and concealed a murder.
Likewise, it has been eight years, one month and 23 days since Michelle O'Connell died.
The homicide was concealed by government officials, led by estimable energumen St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, who legally changed his name from "HOAR" in 1994.
Sheriff SHOAR f/k/a "HOAR" accused Michelle O'Connell's grieving family of "molesting" her body by having it exhumed and autopsied.
Her jaw was broken, a fact missed by SHOAR's incurious henchmen, including maladroit $226,000+/year District 23 Medical Examiner PREDRAG BULIC, M.D., who decided that guns recoil forward, an engineering feat in defiance of the Laws of Physics, a unique anomaly previously unknown to thousands of years of gun experience.
SHOAR bullied the FDLE and caused its investigator to be sued, trying to get him fired and prosecuted for doing his job "too well."
SHOAR's buddy, Governor RICHARD LYNN SCOTT, obligingly named not one but two incurious "special prosecutors" after State's Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA belatedly recused himself, after his investigators Robert Hardwick and James Parker sought an exhumation and planned to charge Deputy JEREMY BANKS with homicide.
SHOAR now wants a $15,000,000 training and communications center, which I have asked be named for Michelle O'Connell.
Work tirelessly for justice.
As JFK said, "Here on Earth, God's work bus truly be our own."
Justice for Michelle O'Connell.
Justice for St. Romero.
From the Jesuit magazine, America.
Judge orders arrest of longtime suspect in St. Romero’s 1980 killing
A nun kisses the forehead of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador at the Hospital of Divine Providence in San Salvador. The archbishop was taken to the hospital with bullet wounds in the chest after being shot by four unidentified gunmen as he celebrated Mass in a chapel March 24, 1980. (Scan of CNS file photo)
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Days after the Catholic Church declared Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero a saint, a judge in El Salvador issued a capture order for a former military captain suspected of killing the religious leader in 1980 as he celebrated Mass.
Judge Rigoberto Chicas issued the order Oct. 23 for national and international authorities to apprehend Alvaro Rafael Saravia, who has for years been a suspect in the killing. He remains at large and is believed to be in hiding. It's not the first time such an order has been issued against Saravia.
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He was arrested in 1987 in Miami and has faced a variety of legal proceedings in El Salvador for years that proved fruitless in any meaningful prosecution because of an amnesty law that prevented prosecution of human rights violations by the military tied to the country's 1980-1992 civil war.
However, the 1993 law was thrown out by the country's highest court in 2016 and the case involving the killing of the archbishop was reopened the following year.
In issuing the arrest order, Chicas said authorities have sufficient evidence to charge Saravia for participation in the crime.
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On the day before his assassination in San Salvador on March 24, 1980, St. Romero had demanded that the soldiers stop killing innocent civilians and had advocated for an end to the violence engulfing the Central American country. The conflict went on to last another 12 years, claiming more than 70,000 civilian lives, including the archbishop's.
In issuing the arrest order, Chicas said authorities have sufficient evidence to charge Saravia for participation in the crime. A United Nation's Truth Commission accused another Salvadoran military strongman, Major Roberto D'Aubuisson, a right-wing leader suspected of organizing the country's notorious death squads, of being the architect of the archbishop's assassination. D'Aubuisson died of cancer in 1992 and was never charged.
The arrest order comes nine days after the archbishop was declared a saint in a ceremony at the Vatican on Oct. 14. Maria Luisa de Martinez, D'Aubuisson's sister and a founder of the Archbishop Romero Foundation, attended the canonization.
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