One MS-13 member clicked a cigar cutter open and closed with a metallic ring, while another told the 15-year-old they would cut her fingers off, the prosecutor said. Another gang member asked where the gasoline was so they could burn the girl up.
Ten members and associates of MS-13 lured Damaris A. Reyes Rivas to a Springfield park in January because they wanted revenge. They blamed the Gaithersburg teen for the death of their clique’s leader, Christian Sosa Rivas, whose body had been dumped in the Potomac about a week earlier.
Venus Romero Iraheta, 17, who was Sosa Rivas’s girlfriend, told Damaris her fate would be the same.
“Venus told her she was going to die that day as Christian did — in the cold,” Fairfax County Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Katherine Stott said in a Fairfax County courtroom Tuesday...
...Damaris’s killers were remorseless, capturing her final minutes in gruesome cellphone videos...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/ms-13-associates-plead-guilty-in-connection-with-brutal-revenge-killing-of-gaithersburg-teen/2017/10/17/05d0c652-b284-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.6cefaa33b2e1
‘A hole in our hearts’: A 15-year-old girl lost to MS-13 is laid to rest
‘A hole in our hearts’: A 15-year-old girl lost to MS-13 is laid to rest
...There was no mention of MS-13 on Thursday, but fear of the gang, known in El Salvador as Mara Salvatrucha, was everywhere. At least six Gaithersburg police cars were positioned around the St. Rose of Lima church. Plainclothes police attended the funeral — their guns bulging beneath suit jackets — and uniformed officers watched over the burial from a distance.Perhaps because of the fear of violence, the pews were mostly empty. About 50 people attended, primarily family members plus a few of Damaris’s friends and teachers from Watkins Mill High School...
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