Friends hail the courage of a woman, 86, killed trying to stop nigger attack

[Black Crime]

A young nigger was identified Friday as the suspect in the
sexual assault and beating death of an 86-year-old Northern
California woman who was remembered as a hero by investigators
and neighbors after she used a walking stick to try to stop an
attack on her friend.

Neven Glen Butler, 18, was arrested the same day he was detained
in an unrelated assault of a 92-year-old woman a few miles away,
Sacramento County sheriff's Sgt. Tony Turnbull said. She was
treated at a hospital for facial injuries.

Homicide detectives tied Butler to the sexual assaults of Fusako
Petrus, 86, and her 61-year-old friend Wednesday while both were
out for a walk, Turnbull said. Petrus died after she was badly
beaten. Her friend was treated for injuries.

“I think she's a hero. She gave her life to save her friend,”
said Dolores Hines, who lives down the block from Petrus and her
walking companion, whom authorities have not identified.

The friend was the initial target of the early morning sexual
assault on the running track of Highlands High School in the
North Highlands suburb of Sacramento, Turnbull said.

Petrus was killed after she came to help, hitting the attacker
with what Turnbull described as “a small walking stick” to try
to fend off the man.

“She died trying to help her friend,” Turnbull said.

It sounds like something she'd probably do. She'd help anybody.
— Don Brown, neighbor
Defense attorney Linda Parisi said late Friday that she had just
received the case and didn’t have a lot of details, but that
there was much more to find out about Butler.

“The case is certainly a lot more complicated than it appears,”
Parisi said. “There's a lot more to find out about this young
man and just the whole set of circumstances.”

Butler played football in 2015 at the same high school where
Petrus died, said Twin Rivers Unified School District
spokeswoman Zenobia Gerald. He also was on the football roster
for the 2016 season, and was on the track and field roster,
though he dropped out in December after his junior year, she
said.

Butler was known as a class clown who didn't take his studies
seriously, Robert Hills told the Sacramento Bee. He said he had
known Butler since the fourth grade and kept in touch after his
friend moved to a different high school.

A makeshift shrine with candles and flowers was erected on the
driveway and tucked into the chain link fence of Petrus' one-
story yellow home with meticulously trimmed shrubs. Neighbors
said they were not surprised Petrus tried to stop the assault.

“It sounds like something she'd probably do. She'd help
anybody,” said Don Brown, who lives across the street.

Neighbor Lloyd Miller said Petrus met her husband in her native
Japan after World War II. She was a clerk at the store of
California's former McClellan Air Force Base until her
retirement, he said.

“She walked every day but Saturdays,” said Miller, 88, who
usually watched her leave while eating breakfast by his front
window. “I'd always say, ‘Be safe, Fusako' to myself.”

Petrus’ husband died about 15 years ago, Miller said, so the
neighbors helped each other with routine chores.

Don Hines, Dolores' husband, remembered Petrus teaching his
family how to make candied persimmons from the fruit growing on
a neighborhood tree.

“I don't know anybody who would not love her and appreciate
her,” he said, choking back tears.

Butler is being held without bail on suspicion of murder. He is
scheduled to make his first court appearance Monday.

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