The gang falsely believed one of the teens to be a spy for rivals, the other a police informant.
, of Falls Church, and 14-year-old Sergio Anthony Arita Triminio, of Alexandria. The teenagers’ bodies were found buried 50 yards from each other in a Fairfax County park in 2017, police said. Prosecutors began presenting their case to jurors this month, with Vigil Mejia providing painstaking details of the killings over four days of testimony last week.
Once Escobar Mendez had been killed and buried — and cellphone video sent as proof to MS-13 leaders — Vigil Mejia said that he and the other gang members who participated were promoted. Prosecutors allege thatZelaya Martinez, whom they say led the Park View Locos Salvatrucha cell of MS-13 operating in Virginia and is among those on trial, sent Vigil Mejia a message boasting of “killing chavalas with elegance,” using a Spanish term for a rival gang member.
“He was in agony, saying, ‘Why are you killing me? Why are you doing this to me?’ ” Vigil Mejia said of one of the videos.the day after the killing in September 2016, from Elmer Zelaya Martinez.
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