“She was telling her boyfriend exactly what happened,” Assistant US Attorney Paul Scotti told jurors. “She told him she killed those four young men and she was happy about it. She was happy.”
Long Island’s “Little Devil” smiled as MS-13 gang members hacked four men to death with machetes — and even “licked the blood off her lips” during the massacre, prosecutors said Wednesday in closing arguments at her murder trial.
Leniz “Diablita” Escobar, 22, lured the men to their deaths in a local park after convincing the notoriously vicious gang that the victims “had mocked them” by using MS-13 symbols, prosecutor Justina Geraci said in federal court in Central Islip.
“You heard [MS-13 gang member] David Gaitan-Rivera’s testimony,” Geraci told the jury of the 2017 slayings. “He told you how one of the victims had reached for [Escobar] before he was killed and his blood had gotten all over her shirt.
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