Seven Hawks Galler: Probable Cause

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Probable Cause Hearing Set for May 28

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Seven Hawks: The last knife

Although Seven was stabbed numerous times, there is one more deep cut that needs to be addressed.

Betrayal

Jose Alverado was fascinated with the Native culture. He sought out the family and was fascinated with them. Both the boys and Ann McManus. He took advantage of hospitality the family offered. He took advantage of their openness. He wriggled his way into their lives, making himself feel at home. Unbeknown to them, a rage lurked inside.

Alverado turned on them, first on Ann, because he was cut off after having a few (way) too many. Who was to know? Who could have predicted? Why was he carrying around a knife? These loving people were there for him, but he turned on them. Tomorrow Alverado will appear in court.
**He will be pleading not guilty,
**Says he was defending himself
**He is being held on $1 million bond

*UPDATE: 4/22/08
Next Court Date for animal:
Probable Cause Hearing on MAY 28, 2008

The Murderer of SevenHawks

MERIDEN, Conn. -- Wearing a hospital gown and neck brace, a 48-year-old Meriden man answered to murder charges in court on Monday.

Jose Alvarado is accused in the stabbing death of Seven Hawks Galler, 27. Police said Galler was stabbed several times at an apartment on North Third Street on Friday night.

Police said they believe Galler was stabbed in the midst of a fight that broke out during a party at the apartment.

Police said they found Alvarado bleeding from a head wound on a stairway of the building. He was treated at Hartford Hospital and brought to the police station.

In court on Monday, Alvarado claimed self-defense.

Gasusquah McManus, who lives in one of the building's apartments and is Geller's brother, told police that Alvarado is his mother's boyfriend. He said a fight began when Alvarado started grabbing his mother and was told he couldn't have any more beer.

According to court documents, McManus said, "They were having problems with his mother's boyfriend, Jose Alvarado and that when they tried to get Jose to leave … Jose stabbed Seven Hawks several times."

Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Susan Raff reported that Alvarado was on probation for possession of marijuana at the time of the stabbing.

Outside Meriden Superior Court on Monday, Ann McManus told Eyewitness News what happened to her son in the last few moments of his life.

"He tried to run. I took his shoulder and said, 'You don't look good.' He collapsed at my neighbor's door. I screamed. I saw blood and I knew," she said.

A judge kept Alvarado's bond set at $1 million.
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