The pair then jumped into a waiting getaway car and fled the scene.
The 27-year-old victim Hector Diaz, a construction worker, was pronounced dead in an ambulance as he was being transported to the hospital.
Fast forward to 2018 and the three MS-13 gang members—known by their aliases of Dusty, Despiadado and Little Boy—faced a jury decision that altered their lives forever.
After an eight-day trial, on Aug. 8, prosecutors announced that the three killers, all from Central America, were sentenced to prison.
Jonathan Guevara, 21, was convicted in February this year and sentenced to 99 years. His fellow gang member Giovani Antonio Herrera, 23, admitted to his crimes and was sentenced to 40 years after making a plea deal. The getaway driver, 32-year-old Anival Guevara, was convicted on Aug. 3 and sentenced to 27 years.
“They showed a complete disdain for the value of human life.”
The MS-13 gang is also known as Mara Salvatrucha and was initially formed by Salvadoran immigrants that fled to Los Angeles during the civil war in their home country. The gang’s motto is “kill, rape, control.”
The gang is ranked by the Texas Department of Public Safety as a Tier 1 gang, in the same class as The Texas Syndicate, Texas Mexican Mafia, and Tango Blast, according to the district attorney office statement.
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