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A man convicted of abducting a teenage couple at gunpoint, raping and killing one and leaving the other for dead, was sentenced Thursday. Victor Caraballo will be put to death for the April 27, 2002 murder of Ana Maria Angel. He was convicted of raping and killing her in April. Caraballo and four other men were charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, armed sexual battery by multiple perpetrators, and two counts each of armed kidnapping and armed robbery. Nelson Portobanco and Angel were both 18-year-old high school seniors at the time. They were walking back to their car on South Beach after a date when, Portobanco said, the men jumped the couple and pushed them into a pickup truck. Portobanco said they then drove north and gang-raped Angel while he was ordered to keep his head down. It is believed the couple were the victims of a random attack. Police said Angel was driven farther north and shot to death. Her body was found near Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County. Caraballo was the first of five Orlando-area men to stand trial in connection with Angel's abduction, rape and death. Caraballo was sentenced to death on the murder charge. He received four life sentences and two 30-year prison sentences for the remaining charges.
Caraballo was sentenced to death on June 7, 2007.
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