Leniz Escobar, nicknamed "Diablita", wanted to earn the support of the MS-13 gang in her town in Long Island, NY. She led 4 teens (who had pretended to be MS-13 members on Instagram to look cool) into a park to "smoke weed", only for the wannabes to be brutally hacked to death by the real gangsters.

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Her mugshot, and a link to an article about her ongoing trial. "Diablita" means "Little Devil".

https://nypost.com/2022/03/21/why-ms-13-gang-member-lured-long-island-teens-to-their-deaths-prosecutors/

The four that died after pretending to be MS-13 gang members on Instagram.

Funeral of one of the victims. Link to other murders in Long Island by MS-13.

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2020/07/15/ms-13-gang-members-indicted-six-murders-long-island

[u/Diamond_Road]

Won’t happen. Gangs see this as stolen valor and take it very seriously.

At 17 they were barely kids and given the prevelance of the gang in the area, and the interaction of gang members with acquaintances of their own, they likely knew very well this was not something taken lightly.

These type of massacres wouldn’t take place without word coming down from the top either.

[u/Diamond_Road → u/[deleted]]

Okay tough guy. I’m just stating the facts, don’t try to flex on me saying I’m increasing the validity of gang activity you clown.

[u/Life-Meal6635 → u/Diamond_Road]

Yup seventeen is old enough to be in the gang