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Thug Slain at Site of His Dutch Victim's Death
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Race; Posted on: 2008-03-20 14:48:08 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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Xaviein Bendross gunned down at the same intersection where he helped kill tourist
Xaviein Bendross, the black thug who participated in the 1996 murder of Dutch tourist Tosca Dieperink was machinegunned to death at the same Miami intersection, twelve years later.
Bendross was 16 when he drove the escape car after his companion Max Brazley and another "youth" shot and killed Dieperink at a Shell gas station in 1996. Dieperink and her husband had apparently gotten lost and found themselves deep in the heart of Liberty City, Miami's oldest black slum. Tosca Dieperink was murdered when she stopped to ask for directions, leaving her three children motherless. Bendross agreed to testify against the other two in exchange for leniency: 12 years' probation.
The killing of Dieperink was part of a wave of tourist murders in Florida by nonwhites, which threatened the lucrative tourist industry in the state.
Bendross was riding in a vehicle with Oluyemi Danqah Jarvis Johnson and Jamal Vickers at 4:46 AM one morning last week when gunshots erupted from a passing Chevy Impala at the intersection of Northwest 79th Street and 22nd Avenue. The group had been at the Take One Cocktail Lounge, a strip club cops say is a criminal hangout. Bendross, Danqah and Johnson were pronounced dead, while Vickers may pull through.
Police have no suspects.
Despite beating the murder rap in 1996, Bendross persisted in a life of crime. He tested positive for cocaine and marijuana, was arrested for burglary and failed a "job training" course. As late as November of 2007 Bendross was arrested after fleeing the scene of a nightclub shooting, and a gun was found in his car. Despite all these run ins with law enforcement, Bendross never had his probation fully revoked.
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News Source: correspondent
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