MD - Ariana Funes-Diaz, 14, Murdered by MS-13 Gang Members. Arrests. April 2019

[PastTense]

The body of a missing 14-year-old girl from Anne Arundel County, Maryland, was found Wednesday, and three people, including two alleged MS-13 members, have been arrested in her death. One suspect is still at large.

Acting on a tip, Prince George’s County police, D.C. police and federal authorities found the body of 14-year-old Ariana Funes-Diaz in a creek near 64th Avenue, just west of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, in Riverdale at about 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Three people — Josue Fuentes-Ponce, 16, of Bladensburg, Maryland; Joel Escobar, 17, of Northeast D.C., and Cynthia Hernandez-Nucamendi, 14, of Lothian, Maryland — had been arrested and charged as adults with first-degree murder, said Maj. Brian Reilly with Prince George’s County police.

The three, as well as Funes-Diaz, were involved in a crime in Washington on April 17, Reilly said. He didn’t specify what the crime was. The next day, Reilly said the three, plus the fourth suspect who hasn’t been arrested yet, were afraid Funes-Diaz would go tell the police about the crime. They drove her to a wooded area near where her body was found, and attacked her with a baseball bat and a machete.

‘Extreme violence was used’: Teen girl found dead in Md. linked to gang killing | WTOP

 

[Reasonable & Just]

How awful. Evil.

 

[PastTense]

It was less than a day earlier that the 14-year-old herself had been the one to draw a man to Northeast Washington, where he was beaten, robbed and interrogated about his gang affiliations, according to court documents and three individuals familiar with the investigation. But the man was a family friend, court documents said, and at one point, the girl begged for mercy for him.

Worried that Funes-Diaz would go to law enforcement, police said, the gang members brutally attacked her in an assault recorded on camera and left her.

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