Yesterday the lead detective investigating the death of Marcelo Lucero testified that then-18-year-old Jeffrey Conroy signed a statement saying he'd stabbed the Ecuadorean immigrant. Det. John McLeer questioned the teen just hours after the crime occurred in 2008, reports the Times, and is expected to be the last witness to take the stand in the Long Island hate crime case. He's the third person to claim that Conroy stated he stabbed 37-year-old Lucero, after going out with friends looking for Hispanics to terrorize. A lawyer for the boy—who's pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder as a hate crime and first-degree manslaughter—claimed he told friends the stabbing was an accident. To that the detective responded, "I believe a person's actions speak their intent."