Alleged MS-13 associate found guilty Monday morning in deaths of 4 young men in Central Islip 5 years ago today

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Prosecutors said Escobar, then 17, and Gomez, then 16, brought the young men to the woods to smoke marijuana after meeting with MS-13 members about a week earlier and showing them photos of Artiaga-Ruiz flashing gang signs.
46% : Escobar's female co-conspirator, Keyli Gomez, now 21, testified as a cooperating government witness that the two of them set up the victims for execution.
41% :Testimony showed a posse of MS-13 gang members emerged from the woods as Escobar and a female co-conspirator smoked marijuana with the four victims and the sole survivor of the onslaught, Elmer Alexander Artiaga-Ruiz, by a fallen tree in the light of the full moon.

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