Venus. Romero. Iraheta.
The young MS-13 associate listed her full name before plunging the knife into the 15-year-old girl, so Damaris A. Reyes Rivas would know who killed her, an FBI agent testified Thursday. Iraheta, 17, blamed the Gaithersburg teen for the killing of her boyfriend just a week earlier and wanted revenge.
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At the heart of the cases, Uribe testified, was a love triangle of sorts. Iraheta and Damaris both had relationships with 21-year-old Christian Sosa Rivas, who authorities say was killed by MS-13 associates along the Potomac River in Dumfries around New Year’s Eve. (...) Iraheta blamed Damaris for helping lure Sosa Rivas to the spot where he was killed.
(...) Uribe testified that Iraheta told him she began to beat Damaris and question her about what happened to Sosa Rivas and the nature of their relationship. Uribe testified that Rivas also told him that he kicked Damaris in the head.
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Iraheta stabbed Damaris’s abdomen and neck 13 times as she lay on the ground, according to testimony. She also allegedly sliced a diamond tattoo off Damaris that the teen had gotten as a reminder of Sosa Rivas, a person familiar with the case said.
A search warrant in the case states that her attackers took videos of Damaris’s dying moments, and one was so brazen that he was wearing a court-ordered GPS monitoring bracelet from a previous offense. Wilmer A. Sanchez-Serrano, 21, who also had a preliminary hearing Thursday, plunged a large sharpened stick into Damaris’s neck at one point, Uribe testified.
