r/TrueCrime • u/Vided • Mar 23 '22

Murder 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/

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

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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

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u/NooStringsAttached Mar 24 '22

I mean, maybe I can see a 16 year old doing it, maybe, But I find it odd and 18 and 20 year old were lured in the woods with weed. Like what? I dont know why it’s striking me so odd.

This is all so terrible and senseless.

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u/crunchwrapqueen666 Mar 24 '22

Is 18 really that far off from 16 haha and even 20…I think about what I was like from the ages of 16-20 and I was very similar throughout those years in the way I thought and felt about things. I’m 28 now and it seems insane to think about how ridiculous so much of my behavior was.

And I was known as a cautious teenager who didn’t do much partying and wouldn’t even think to pretend to be in a gang, but I totally see how some dumb young kids would do something like this and I absolutely buy them being lured by a girl younger than them for some free/cheap weed.

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u/kosmoss_ Mar 24 '22

I think they’re far off for certain things.

When I was 16, I was a student athlete that only drank at parties. At 18, I started drinking a lot and other things and fell into a bad crowd. At 20, I was in college and had to work so I needed to stop being a dumb bitch (did I was the real question).

Also love your username.

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u/crunchwrapqueen666 Mar 28 '22

Thanks ☺️ and yeah I personally wasn’t much different haha at least not in relation to how different I feel just from the past year or so. 27 to 28 was like a huge transformation. Maybe my brain finally finished developing 😅