A 16-year-old boy was stabbed 144 times, tortured then set on fire in the woods back in 2019 over doubts he was a “police informant.”
Now one of the foursome gangsters accused of perpetrating the gruesome murder is sentenced to 30 years behind bars after confession and remorse claims.
Kevin Alexis Rodriguez-Flores, 20, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and destroy evidence in connection with Jacson Chicas’ slaying.
Rodriguez-Flores told the judge that he and other MS-13 gang-members believed Chicas was cooperating with law enforcement when they brought him to the gang leader’s home in Hyattsville.
There, they assaulted Chicas, cut and stabbed him trying to force him to admit to the accusations.
The leader ultimately ordered him to be killed.
Rodriguez-Flores said that Chicas’s throat was cut and his body was burned in a wooded area in Stafford County before the culprits returned to clean up the scene.
Lawyer Alfred Guillaume who is representing the suspect claimed his client was “remorseful” for the crime.
“Our hearts go out to the family of the victim,” he said.
