SHARONVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Federal immigration officials have joined the investigation into the killing of four Hispanic men in an Ohio apartment, officials said Tuesday.
Police in Sharonville, about 15 miles northeast of Cincinnati, found the bodies Thursday. The men's employer, Abc Precision Masonry & Concrete in Mason, asked for a check on their wellbeing after they failed to show up for nine days.
At a news conference Monday, Hamilton County Coroner O'Dell Owens said that all four had been stabbed in the heart. They had also been battered with a blunt object, and in two cases appeared to have struggled against an attacker.
"It's clear that they wanted to be sure these four individuals didn't live," Owens said.
Investigators were trying to determine the men's identities. A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that agents will have access to their files if they were in the United States legally.
By all accounts, the four were quiet and hardworking men. In the apartment, police found a receipt to show that one had recently sent $2,500 home to Mexico.
Another man had $1,500 in his pocket, suggesting that robbery was not a motive.
