NEW YORK – The woman convicted of luring five young men into a Long Island park where they were attacked by MS-13 gang members that killed four of them was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday.
The brutal 2017 attack shocked Central Islip, and the nation.
Leniz Escobar, 24, also known as ” La Diablita , or ” Little Devil ,” was convicted in April, 2022, in connection with the murders of Justin Llivicura, Michael Lopez, Jorge Tigre and Jefferson Villalobos. The victims were aged 16-20. She was sentenced Tuesday.
Escobar was accused of luring them into the park to smoke marijuana. Once they got there, gang members surrounded and attacked them with machetes, knives, an axe and clubs.
One managed to run away. The other four were killed.
Prosecutors say they were attacked because MS-13 gangsters believed they were “members of a rival gang, at least two of whom had disrespected the MS-13 by posting photos on social media.”