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    Cristian Zamora and Ricardo Campos-Lara Sentenced to 35 Years for 2013 TX Slaying of Josael Guevara


    Josael Guevara, 16


    Cristian Zamora, 22, Ricardo Campos Lara, 18,
    and Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero, 17



    2 indictments in 2013 murder of teen in Sam Houston National Forest

    A joint investigation involving several law enforcement agencies has resulted in the indictments of two men from El Salvador in the September 2013 fatal attack of a teen in the Sam Houston National Forest.

    United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced on Friday that Cristian Alexander Zamora, 22, and Ricardo Leonel Campos-Lara, 19, were indicted on murder charges in the death of a 16-year-old boy in the designated federal land. Zamora, also known as Alexander, Alex or Pollo, and Campos-Lara, also known as 'La Muerte,' were scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary Milloy on Friday morning.

    The indictment, returned on June 18, alleges that Zamora and Campos-Lara helped each other attack the teen with a bat and a machete while in the Sam Houston National Forest on Sept. 22, 2013. If convicted of murder in the U.S., Zamora and Campos-Lara will each face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty.

    The joint investigation conducted by the FBI, Houston Police Department, Texas Rangers, and the Walker County Sheriff’s Office resulted in the indictments. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark E. Donnelly will serve as prosecutor in the case.

    http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/25...ational-forest

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    MS-13 Gang Members Plead Guilty in Near-Beheading of Texas Teen

    HOUSTON, Texas – Two El Salvadorian men who are members of the hyper-violent MS-13 gang pleaded guilty in federal court to the near beheading murder of a 16-year-old Houston teen. The murder occurred in the woods of the Sam Houston National Forrest in Walker County near Huntsville, Texas. Because the crime occurred in a national park, the murder became a federal crime.

    Cristian Alexander Zamora, age 22 and Ricardo Leonel Campos Lara, age 19, pleaded guilty on April 17 to aiding and abetting murder on federal property, according to court records obtained by Breitbart Texas. The two men admitted to their role in the murder of 16-year-old Josael Guevara, age 16, who was a student at Klein Forrest High School in North Houston. Guevara is also allegedly a MS-13 gang member. The hit was ordered by MS-13 gang leaders. They admitted to taking the Houston teen to the forest where he was killed.

    A third young man, Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero, also a MS-13 gang member, faces a state murder charge in Walker County. He will be tried in state court in Huntsville, according to a report by Cindy George in the Houston Chronicle.

    Bonilla-Romero will be tried in state court because of a difference in state and federal laws. Because he was 17 at the time of the crime, Bonilla-Romero would have to be tried as a juvenile in federal court. Texas law allows him to be tried as an adult.

    The motivation for the murder appears to be an alleged betrayal of the gang by Guevara to police authorities in El Salvador.

    http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/...-houston-teen/

    Both were given 35 years.

    http://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Men...377866961.html
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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