MS-13 gang moll dubbed ‘little devil’, 22, ‘licked blood off her lips after luring four men to grisly machete murders’
AN MS-13 gang moll dubbed "little devil" licked blood off her lips after luring four men to their grisly machete murders, it's alleged.
Leniz "Diablita" Escobar, 22, is accused of coaxing five unsuspecting victim to a park in Long Island, New York, to smoke marijuana, where they were brutally ambushed by gangsters.
Four were hacked to death, while the fifth - Elmer Alexander Arteaga Ruiz - managed to escape the bloody massacre in April 2017.
It's alleged Michael Lopez, 20, Justine Llivicura, 16, Jorge Tigre, 18, and Jefferson Villalobos, 18, were slaughtered by MS-13 members after several of them posted photos throwing gang signs.
Escobar was just 17 at the time and in a December 2019 ruling, US Circuit Judge Joseph Bianco alleged she “knowingly lured the unsuspecting victims to a prearranged location in the Central Islip woods where they were murdered with machetes, knives and tree limbs.”
At her murder trial this week, prosecutor claim she smiled as gang members savagely attacked the men - and even "licked the blood off her lips", reports the
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Prosecutor Justina Geraci alleged Escobar lured the men to their deaths after she convinced the gang that the victims "had mocked them" by using MS-13 symbols.
“You heard [MS-13 gang member] David Gaitan-Rivera’s testimony,” Geraci told the jury.
“He told you how one of the victims had reached for [Escobar] before he was killed and his blood had gotten all over her shirt.
“He told you how she licked the blood off her lips.
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“And how just before [victim] Michael Lopez was hacked to death, how she smiled."
According to reports, Escobar smiled and joked with her defense team as the prosecutor spoke
During her trial, jurors were presented recorded phone calls Escobar had with her boyfriend, an MS-13 member.
Assistant US Attorney Paul Scotti told the court: "She was telling her boyfriend exactly what happened.
“She told him she killed those four young men and she was happy about it. She was happy.”
But Escobar's lawyers claimed she didn't know the victims would be attack as she lured them to the park as defense attorney Jesse Siegel argued his client wasn't a member or associate of the gang.
“Not every girlfriend is an associate,” Siegel said.
“Her boyfriend was a homeboy.
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“She was there. She certainly didn’t prevent it from happening. The issue is if she knew something was going to happen.”
The trial closed yesterday after closing statements, with jury deliberations due to start today.
