Ms 13 Vioence Essay

MS 13 Violence

MS 13 uses extreme violence to get their point across to their enemies and to law enforcement who try to limit their activities. They will stop at nothing to become successful in all of their illegal activities that they participate in. In all of the following instances that are described, MS 13 is responsible for all of the horrific violence that takes part and the are proud that all of these cases are so well know.
On July 13, 2003, Brenda Paz, a 17-year-old female, former MS member turned informant was found stabbed on the banks of the Shenandoah inVirginia. Paz was killed for informing the FBI about Mara Salvatrucha criminal activities. Two of her former friends were later convicted of the murder.In 2004, the FBI created the MS National Gang Task Force. In 2005, the FBI helped create a National Gang Information Center and outlined a National Gang Strategy for Congress. On December 23, 2004, one of the most widely publicized MS crimes in Central America occurred in Chamelecon, Honduras when an intercity bus was intercepted and sprayed with automatic gunfire, killing 28 civilian passengers, most of whom were women and children. MS organized the massacre as a protest against the Honduran government for proposing a restoration of the death penalty in Honduras. Six gunmen raked the bus with gunfire. As passengers screamed and ducked, another gunman climbed aboard and methodically executed passengers. In February 2007, Juan Carlos Miranda Bueso and Darwin Alexis Ramírez were found guilty of several crimes including murder and attempted murder. Ebert Anibal Rivera was held over the attack and was arrested after having fled to Texas. Juan Bautista Jimenez, accused of masterminding the massacre, was killed in prison. According to the authorities, fellow MS-13 inmates hanged him. There was insufficient evidence to convict Óscar Fernando Mendoza and Wilson Geovany Gómez.   On May 13, 2006, Ernesto "Smokey" Miranda, an ex-high ranking soldier and one...