Sanchez pleads guilty to murder

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Jean Sanchez decided to spare his victim’s family and his own family the agony of a trial.
In May of last year he murdered a thirteen year old boy, Ameer Al Shamari, a refugee from Iraq. The killing was over a cell phone. Sanchez was also thirteen.
Erie County Judge Sheila DiTullio made sure several times that Sanchez, originally from Puerto Rico, understood the details of his plea and conviction. Sanchez had an interpreter by his side when the judge addressed