A Long Island woman known as 'La Diablita' was found guilty on all charges tied to her role in a 2017 MS-13 ambush that left four dead.
“With today’s verdict, Escobar has been held responsible for the crucial role that she willingly played in orchestrating one of the most vicious and senseless mass murders in the district in memory,” Breon Peace, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement. “The defendant showed utter disregard for human life by leading the victims into a killing field, to their slaughter, to enhance her stature with her fellow cold-blooded murderers within the MS-13 gang.
Prosecutors claimed that Escobar and a co-conspirator, Keyli Gomez — who ended up working with prosecutors — showed the gang-related photos to MS-13 members, which is how the gang decided to attack the young men. Gomez testified during the trial that she and Escobar drove with the victims to the park, led them to a predetermined area, and alerted MS-13 members via text when they arrived. After the attack, the bodies were dragged to another area, where they were discovered the next day.
During the trial, prosecutors released a phone call between Escobar and her boyfriend, allegedly a high-ranking MS-13 member, that took place the day after the murders. During the recorded call, Escobar appeared to discuss the attack and the one person who got away in slightly veiled terms saying, “The person that missed the trains spilled the beans… he spilled the beans with the cops.”
The one person who successfully fled the attack testified during the trial as well. He said after the ambush, the victims were told to get on their knees, but he successfully got up, leapt over a fence, and outran two other people to get to safety.Escobar’s lawyer, meanwhile, unsuccessfully tried to argue that she neither knew the men would be murdered that night, nor had any connection with those who carried out the attack.
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