Omar Antonio Villalta, known as “Antichrist” and a member of the MS-13 criminal group, was sentenced on Wednesday to 55 years in prison for his participation in five murders, including the brutal slaughter of four young people in a park in Central Islip, in 2017, as reported this afternoon by the District Prosecutor for the East of New York.
The crimes occurred on April 11 of that year, when Villalta and more than a dozen gang members attracted their victims, Justin Llivicura, Michael López, Jorge Tigre and Jefferson Villalobos, to a local park, where they were killed with machetes, knives and clubs, according to the prosecutor’s recount. The young people, mostly Brentwood High School students, had been accused by the gang members of belonging to a rival band or having shown symbols considered offensive by the MS-13 on social networks.
After that attack, Villalta fled to Charlottesville, Virginia, where a few months later he murdered Marvin Rivera Guevara, whom he accused of being a member of a rival gang. That crime was also planned and executed with extreme violence, said the Prosecutor’s Office.
The case is part of an extensive federal operation to dismantle the MS-13 in Long Island. Since 2010, the authorities have accused members of this organization for more than 70 homicides in the region. Villalta is the sixth involved in the murders of Central Islip to be sentenced; five others already meet sentences between 29 and 55 years of prison
