By Terry Horne
 
                     As one suspect in the slaying of a Cuban couple appeared in Marion Superior Court
                 today, details emerged on how gruesome the deaths were.
                     Manual Aguiar-Gonzales, 49, and his wife, Mayra Perez-Gonzales, 48, who had left Cuba
                 to join their son in Indianapolis were repeatedly stabbed in the face and neck as they were lying
                 on the floor, bound and taped by their assailants, according to a police affidavit.
                     Charged with their murder and robbery is Linden A. Cornewell, 23. A 15-year-old boy is
                 being held on juvenile charges.
                     The teen told police the victims hadn't fought or even made much noise.
                     "The woman was just crying," the teen told detectives, according to
                 Indianapolis police detective Jesse Beavers' report.
                     But the family's tragedy didn't end in the Near Eastside duplex which the
                 couple's son, Yairam Aguiar-Perez, had bought and was restoring for he and his
                 parents to live in.
                     A day later, Manual Aguiar's father, Ricardo Aguiar, learned of their deaths
                 and committed suicide in his grief, said Armando Perez, the brother of Mayra
                 Perez-Gonzalez.
                     Eduardo Dowling, another friend of the family in Miami, said Ricardo Aguiar
                 hanged himself in the small Cuban town of Ceiba Mocha.
                     In court today and on his return to the Marion County Jail, Cornewell didn't
                 have much to say.
                     According to detectives, the teen had claimed that Cornewell was the one
                 wielding the knife but Cornewell has pointed his finger at the youngster.
                     Cornewell indicated to detectives that he was afraid of the 15-year-old.
                     "I was trying to make sure he didn't get hurt and I was trying to make sure that
                 he didn't break in my house, because I know his record," Cornewell said according
                 to court records.
                     Police suspect the teen-ager had broken into the duplex, in the 100 block of
                 Villa Avenue, on Jan. 12 and stole $500 and a combination video cassette/video
                 disc player.
                     Even as police were investigating that burglary, police were called to the home
                 of the teen's uncle on Jan. 28.
                     The uncle told police that someone had broken into his home and stole a
                 handgun, several knives, a video game machine and $30. And he said he suspected
                 his nephew of the theft.
                     The teen's father told police that he also suspected his son. The teen had been
                 a runaway for several weeks, and the Marion County Juvenile Court had issued a
                 warrant for his arrest, according to police.
                     After the Gonzaleses were killed, the uncle alerted detectives that his nephew
                 might be involved because he had heard that the boy had committed a burglary at
                 the same address two weeks earlier.
                     Marion County Deputy Prosecutor Cynthia Ridgeway said the prosecutor's
                 office has requested that the teen be tried as an adult. A hearing is scheduled for
                 March 15.
                     Armando Perez said he had been trying to get his sister and brother-in-law out
                 of Cuba since he arrived in the United States in the late 1960s.
                     Their son, Yairam Aguiar-Perez, 25, had escaped from Cuba by boat two
                 years ago, and was allowed asylum status after he was picked up by authorities in
                 the Florida Keys.
                     Last year, the Gonzaleses flew out of Cuba after their visa was finally
                 approved. They stayed in Miami for several weeks before moving to Greenwood to
                 join Perez and their son.
                     "His son was already working at the Westin Hotel and had bought the house
                 for them to live in. They were all living in one side. They had just finished (fixing
                 up) the other side," Perez said. "They were very, very proud of him."
                     "They were very hard-working people," said Dowling.