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Suspected MS13 gang member killed by rival gang

05:48 PM CDT on Wednesday, June 7, 2006
By Karla Barguiarena / 11 News

On any given summer evening this is what neighbors in this Montrose area park do.

Kids swinging, dogs sipping and neighbors talking about their days.

It’s hard to imagine just a few hours earlier, it was the scene of a horrific turf war between two Houston street gangs.

“It was extremely chaotic. There were probably two dozen people here. It was complete mayhem,” said a neighborhood resident.

The neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, said he was just steps away from it all.

Police said three teenage gang members were standing in the park when they were ambushed by a group from a rival gang.

“I saw 20 to 25 kids running back and forth with baseball bats, one with a machete,” another neighbor said.

Houston police said the three males were surrounded by anywhere from 20 to 30 males who were affiliated with another gang.

They were armed with baseball bats, tire irons, golf clubs and other weapons, HPD said.

A 14-year-old boy, Gabriel Granillo, was beaten and stabbed so severely, he died on the scene. Investigators believe he was a member of the MS 13 gang.

Homicide investigators believe he was stabbed by a white female with shoulder length blond hair who is between 16 and 17 years old. They said she is 5 feet 5 inches tall.

“She was standing on my front yard and she was patting people on the back and saying ‘go’ as they were coming and going,” said a neighbor.

Some of the teens were wearing Lamar High School T-shirts. All of them escaped minutes before police arrived.

“If I do come back here, I will make sure there is a lot of people around so it would decrease the chance of anything happening,” said neighbor Billy Fenimore.

A chance neighbors said is now more possible than ever.