Members of the violent MS-13 street gang enlisted a 19-year-old girl
to lure another teenager into a darkened Montgomery County park where he
was stabbed more than 40 times and killed, according to police accounts
of the county’s 10th gang-related killing in the last 10 months.
The
accounts, filed this week in Montgomery District Court, underscored the
horror of the slaying, with at least three assailants — one of them
just 16 years old — who either held down the victim or repeatedly
stabbed him.
“We really are seeing an unprecedented level of
gang-related homicides,” said Capt. Paul Liquorie, director of the
Montgomery Police Department’s Special Investigations division.
In
one of the suspected MS-13 killings last year in the county, assailants
allegedly threw heavy rocks down on the victim as he crawled away from
an attack toward a stream, according to court records. In another, the
victim was told, “Get on your knees,” before being shot in the face,
neck and shoulder while in the woods.
In the latest case — the
June 16 death of Cristian Antonio Villagran-Morales, 18, in Malcolm King
Park in Gaithersburg — police arrested two suspects late last week, and
are looking for two more...
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From affluent suburbia
ReplyDeleteTo a banana republic
With bureaucratic inertia
That endangers the public.