Federal prosecutors allege Angel Guzman, an alleged MS-13 Fulton gang member, helped carry out a 2017 murder in the Angeles National Forest. The victim was stabbed more than 100 times, his heart was carved out with a machete, and his body was dumped in a remote canyon. Prosecutors say the violence followed a shift in MS-13 operations around 2015, when local leaders adopted stricter “Salvadoran rules” requiring recruits to kill to earn full membership. The first alleged victim, Juan Jose Sibrian, was targeted for allegedly defacing MS-13 graffiti and using meth. Prosecutors claim gang members lured him from Whitsett Park, choked him unconscious, bought rubber gloves and alcohol, and attacked him in an isolated area without witnesses or cellphone service.
"Prosecutors claim Angel Guzman helped butcher a man while deep inside the Angeles National Forest in 2017 - stabbing him more than 100 times, carving out his heart with a machete, and dumping his body into a canyon, the LA Times reported. Now, Guzman and three other alleged members of the notorious MS-13 Fulton gang are facing federal charges tied to a bloody string of murders that cops say turned the LA County mountains into execution grounds."
"Assistant US Attorney Suria Bahadue told jurors the violence stemmed from a dramatic shift inside the gang beginning around 2015, when local leaders allegedly adopted stricter “Salvadoran rules” requiring recruits to kill in order to earn full membership. “There was a shift in the way MS-13 operated in this city,” Bahadue said. “That shift resulted in extreme violence.”"
"On March 6, 2017, gang members allegedly lured Sibrian from Whitsett Park in North Hollywood before choking him unconscious and driving him into the remote forest. Authorities say the group stopped to buy rubber gloves and alcohol before carrying out the savage attack in an isolated canyon area without cellphone service or witnesses. Prosecutors allege Guzman and several others repeatedly hacked and stabbed Sibrian with knives and machetes, inflicting 107 stab wounds before his heart was removed from his chest."
"The first victim in the case was Juan Jose Sibrian, who was allegedly targeted because gang members believed he had defaced MS-13 graffiti and violated gang rules through methamphetamine use, according to prosecutors. “Snoopy was surprised at the level of violence that his foot soldiers had reached, and he promoted them,” Bahadue told jurors, referring to alleged Fulton clique leader Edgar Velasquez by his nickname."
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