SMOKING POT AND SPEAKING SPANISH A FATAL MIX

With both high on pot, Mexican objects to black man speaking Spanish; argument ends when Mexican is stabbed to death

Earnest Salazar got offended because Andra Jackson was speaking to him in Spanish. And I’ve always been led to believe that it’s those of us who don’t speak Spanish that get pissed off when Mexicans speak Spanish around us.

MAN STABBED TO DEATH AFTER ALLEGED SPANISH LANGUAGE DISPUTE
by Robert Stanton

Houston Chronicle
June 25, 2012

A Houston man is accused of stabbing a man to death who reportedly objected to him speaking Spanish, according to Harris County prosecutors.

Aundra B. Jackson, 41, has been charged with murder in the June 15 stabbing death of Ernest Salazar outside a northeast Houston residence, court records show. Jackson remained at large on Monday.

A witness told police that the men were drinking and smoking marijuana outside a home on Peyton Street when a dispute erupted over the language being spoken, according to an arrest warrant filed in the case.

Jackson began speaking Spanish and (Salazar) “got irritated,” telling him that “he didn’t know Spanish and that (Jackson) didn’t have to speak Spanish to him just because he was a Mexican,” the court document states.

The two men approached each other and a witness stepped in to prevent a fight from erupting, investigators said. Over the next 25 minutes, the men exchanged words “back and forth.”

A witness told police that Jackson placed a “blunt” – a marijuana-filled cigar – and a lighter atop the hood of the car and walked to the passenger side, when Salazar grabbed the blunt and lighter.

Police said the two again squared off and Jackson reportedly “swung his arm at (Salazar’s) neck and hit him.” The injured man fell to the ground.

A witness ran inside the home to call 911, and when he returned “he saw (Salazar) was bleeding from his neck and was saying that he couldn’t feel his arms,” the arrest warrant states. Jackson fled the scene.

Later questioned by police, Jackson said that Salazar had grabbed his blunt and lighter and taunted him, saying, ‘I got your shit, what are you going to do about it.” Jackson told police he swung the knife when Salazar “started walking towards him.”

Jackson told police that he fled the scene because he has a criminal record, and threw the knife out his car as he was driving, the arrest warrant states.

Salazar was rushed to Ben Taub Hospital, where he died the following day from a severed left jugular, according to reports.