Fourth MS-13 member pleads guilty in Woolen Mills killing
The fourth and final MS-13 gang member charged with hacking to death an Albemarle County man last summer has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, abduction, lynching and being a member of a criminal street gang.
Jose Luis Escobar-Umana, 23, on Thursday made his plea in Albemarle County Circuit Court. He joins Walter Antonio Argueta Amaya, 21, in pleading guilty to the same four counts in the killing of Marvin Joel Rivera Guevera, 24.
Juan Carlos Argueta, 19, and Juan Carlos Zelaya, 19, both pleaded guilty to gang participation and lynching in Guevera’s killing in exchange for dropping first-degree murder and murder-by-mob — or lynching — charges.
Guevera’s disfigured corpse was found in Moores Creek in a part of the Woolen Mills neighborhood that is in Albemarle County on July 4, 2017, and his burned car was found the same day elsewhere in the county.
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