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    MS-13 gang member narrated video of teen’s killing, FBI agent testifies

    Anyone under 18 was considered and unaccompanied minor and allowed to enter. It appears that MS 13 like them that young and younger.

    MS-13 gang member narrated video of teen’s killing, FBI agent testifies

    By Justin Jouvenal July 10 at 7:08 PM

    The MS-13 gang memberfilmed the killing with a cellphone, barking out orders and narrating as fellow gang members set upon the 15-year-old girl with a knife and a large wooden stake in a suburban Virginia park, an FBI agent testified Monday.

    The green-light to kill Damaris A. Reyes Rivas had come from the transnational gang’s leadership in El Salvador, payback for her alleged role in luring another MS-13 member to his death a week earlier, the FBI agent told a Fairfax County judge.

    But it was 17-year-old Jose Cerrato who allegedly helped orchestrate the killing, part of a plan to send the video back to those MS-13 leaders as proof of his willingness to carry out orders, the agent testified. It’s unclear if the video was ever sent, but the FBI agent testified Cerrato soon earned a promotion within the ranks of the gang for his role in the slaying.

    The testimony by FBI special agent Fernando Uribe came during a hearing in Fairfax County juvenile court in which a judge certified that Cerrato would face murder, abduction and gang participation charges as an adult.

    He is one of 10 people charged in connection with Damaris’s killing on Jan. 8 in the Springfield area.s

    The intertwined pair of killings have highlighted the resurgence of MS-13 in the area, resulted in the arrests of 18 teenagers and young people, and underscored the lethality of a gang, which enforces internal discipline in a brutal fashion.

    “If someone dies in a clique as a result of a fellow member, the person is killed in retaliation,” FBI Special Agent Fernando Uribe testified in Fairfax County juvenile court.

    Uribe relayed the grim events leading to Damaris’s body being dumped facedown next to a set of railroad tracks that run beneath the Beltway not far from Springfield’s Lake Accotink Park. Police discovered her remains under a pile of railroad ties.

    Damaris had left her Gaithersburg, Md., home in mid-December and fallen in with MS-13, her mother said. Roughly a week before her slaying, Christian Sosa Rivas, 21, of Fairfax, was lured to his death and killed because he was claiming to be a leader of MS-13 and angered other gang leaders, according to a search warrant. Sosa Rivas’s body was discovered along the Potomac River in Dumfries.

    Uribe testified Cerrato was close friends with Sosa Rivas and he and other gang members hoped to get Damaris to admit on video that she played a role in helping lure Sosa Rivas to the location where he was attacked. Eight people have been charged in connection with his killing.

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    Damaris was lured to Lake Accotink Park, where she was interrogated and beaten by a group of MS-13 members, Uribe testified. At one point, Damaris was made to take off her clothes on the frigid day, so “she could feel the cold that Christian did,” Uribe testified.

    Uribe previously testified at a preliminary hearing for another co-defendant that Damaris had admitted under questioning she had a sexual relationship with Sosa Rivas. In all, three videos of her interrogation were made before she was killed.

    On one, Cerrato can be heard urging fellow gang members to walk Damaris into the woods at another location, Uribe testified.

    Eventually, 17-year-old Venus Romero Iraheta, who also had a relationship with Sosa Rivas, told Damaris she would see her in hell and plunged a knife into her at least 13 times, Uribe has previously testified. Another gang member then jabbed Damaris in the neck with the wooden stake.

    In the end, a search warrant states, the videos shot by Cerrato show Damaris bleeding among dead leaves.

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    MS-13 gang member filmed, narrated teen's killing, FBI agent tells judge
    Published July 11, 2017
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    Damaris Reyes Rivas (Montgomery County Police)

    MS-13 gang members filmed themselves killing a 15-year-old girl in January in a brutal attack carried out with a knife and a large wooden stake, according to disturbing testimony from an FBI agent.

    Jose Cerrato, a 17-year-old member, was barking out orders and narrating as he made the recording with a cellphone to send to MS-13 leaders in El Salvador who sanctioned the killing, FBI agent Fernando Uribe said in testimony Monday in a Virginia court, The Washington Post reported.

    The girl, Damaris Reyes Rivas, of Gaithersburg, Md., was killed Jan. 8 in a Virginia park. Authorities found her body buried under railroad ties a month later. She had been stabbed numerous times.

    It’s unclear if the video was ever sent to El Salvador, but Uribe testified that Cerrato was promoted in the gang for his role in the murder, the paper reported.

    Uribe tesitifed before a judge weighing whether Cerrato should be tried as an adult on murder, abduction and gang participation charges. After the testimony the judge ruled Cerrato could.
    Cerrato is one of 10 MS-13 members-four adults and six teens—charged with Damaris’ death. Of the 10, four were in the country illegally.

    Her alleged killers believed she lured another MS-13 member, 21-year-old Christian Sosa Rivas, to his death a week earlier, The Post reported. Eight people have been charged with that killing.

    “If someone dies in a clique as a result of a fellow member, the person is killed in retaliation,” Uribe testified, according to the paper.

    The paper reported that the two killings highlight an MS-13 resurgence in the DC area—and the gang’s brutality in enforcing internal discipline.
    Uribe testified that Cerrato sought to get Damaris to admit on video that she playing a role in murder of Sosa.

    He said at one point Damaris was forced to take off her clothes on the frigid day so “she could feel the cold that Christian did,” according to the paper.

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    Previous articles from the ALIPAC archives.

    She thought she'd saved her daughter from El Salvador's brutal gangs, but they found her in the US
    https://www.alipac.us/f12/she-though...-found-345292/

    Ten Arrested, Including Four Illegal Aliens, After ‘Savage’ Gang-Related Killing of Maryland Teen
    https://www.alipac.us/f12/ten-arrested-including-four-illegal-aliens-after-%91savage%92-gang-related-killing-m-343757/

    Because...

    MS-13 gains recruits and power in U.S. as teens surge across border

    https://www.alipac.us/f12/ms-13-gain...border-347935/
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