The U.S. attorney’s office has announced that six members of the notorious MS-13 gang were charged on Nov. 28 in connection with the brutal slaying of a teenage boy in a Boston area playground—stabbed to death because the suspects believed “the victim had been cooperating with law enforcement.”
The defendants allegedly murdered Herson Rivas in late July and left his body in a wooded area of the Henry Avenue Playground in Lynn, a Boston suburb. According to a statement by the U.S. attorney’s office, it was not until Aug. 2 that a bystander discovered the body.
