Diablita gang member is found guilty of the murder with machetes of 4 young people in New York

A court of New York He convicted Latina Leniz Escobar, alias Diablita, of organized crime on Monday for her participation in the murder of four young men with machetes at the hands of the police. Mara Salvatruchaalso known as MS-13, in 2017, the Prosecutor’s Office reported in a statement.

escobar and a conspirator, identified as kayli gomeztook the four victims and a fifth youth —who managed to escape— to a park in the town of Central Islipeast of the city of New York.

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Once there, they wrote text messages to the gang members MS-13who considered these young members of a rival gang.

The gang members of the Mara Salvatrucha They then went to the park, where they surrounded the young Justin Llivicura, Michael Lopez, Jorge Tigre and Jefferson Villaloboswho were between 16 and 20 years old, and they killed them with machetes.

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Escobar, who was 17 years old when the events occurred, will most likely be sentenced to life in prison.

“With today’s verdict, escobar has been held accountable for the crucial role it voluntarily played in orchestrating one of the most senseless and cruel mass murders in memory in the district”said the attorney general of the Eastern District of New York, Breon Peace, quoted in the note.

The acting director of the FBI in New York, Michael Driscoll, assured for his part that the trial showed that “Escobar played a crucial role in a heinous and senseless crime, the 2017 murders of four young men MS-13 believed to be members of a rival gang.”

The Prosecutor’s Office also stresses that in the days after the murder, La Diablita boasted to other members of MS-13 about her involvement in the murders and in a phone call to her boyfriend, one of the leaders of a gang group inside the MS-13, recounted in detail what happened.

Authorities have filed charges against more than ten people allegedly related to that murder.

Source: Elcomercio