MOUNT KISCO – The Hudson Valley Community Coalition Friday announced its support for a federal civil rights investigation into the death of Mount Kisco resident Rene Perez.

Perez, 42, was an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala who was found dead along a road in April 2007.

A former Mount Kisco police officer, George Bubaris, was acquitted of manslaughter charges earlier this month in connection with the death of the homeless man.

The Community Coalition, though, said several questions remain unanswered, said spokesman John Riley.

“What we want to know is what happened, why it happened and what can be done so it doesn’t happen again,” he said. “I think anyone would want to know that.”

The not guilty verdict in the trial “left many of us very uneasy, and deeply troubled about the message it sends to our Hispanic neighbors,” said Riley. “Good people of the Hudson Valley are very concerned that a member of this community is left to die on a deserted road, and no one is held accountable.”