MS-13 gang stab victim 100 times, behead him and cut out his heart in savage Satanic killing in Washington DC park
A SATAN-LOVING street gang beheaded a man in broad daylight before ripping out his heart and tossing the corpse in a shallow grave.
Officials in Washington DC believe up to ten members of the notorious MS-13 gang communicated on walkie-talkies as they lured the unnamed man into a city park before stabbing him more than 100 times.
Armed cops swooped on one of the alleged attackers Miguel Angel Lopez-Abrego, 19, after an informant tipped them off about the grisly murder.
Lopez-Abrego, a citizen of El Salvador who is in the United States illegally, was charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday morning.
Detectives believe he stabbed the victim with a 15-inch knife before standing back to let his comrades finish the job.
"The victim had been stabbed over 100 times, decapitated, dismembered and his heart had been excised from his chest and thrown into the grave," officials wrote in court papers.
The documents claim Lopez-Abrego helped dig the grave and "waited near the edge of the wood line with a handheld walkie-talkie radio to alert the other suspects of the victim’s arrival".
The victim remains unidentified, but detectives circulated photos of a gray ‘First United Methodist Church’ sweatshirt worn by the victim when he was killed.
The shirt read ‘First United Methodist Church Laurel’ on the upper left side.
A rosary necklace was also found on the victim’s body, investigators said.
They also released a photo of the blue Atletico Madrid shorts the victim was wearing at the time in a bid to get clues about his identity.
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The murder is the latest in a string of grisly attacks linked to the notorious MS-13 gang, which was started by Central American immigrants in Los Angeles in the 1980s.
Most of the founding members were from El Salvador having fled to the US during the country’s civil war, which continued from 1980 to 1989.
Earlier this year The Sun told how two MS-13 members laughed and waved in court as they stood accused of kidnapping and torturing a teenage girl before killing a woman in a Satanic ritual after she insulted their demon god.
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