MS-13 gang member yelled 'the beast has eaten!' after murder of man he mistook for a Blood: witness
BY John Marzulli
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Originally Published:Friday, March 4th 2011, 4:00 AM
Updated: Friday, March 4th 2011, 10:41 AM
Ward for NewsMS-13 gang member Julio Chavez
(above and below) is charged with emptying his
revolver into Maurice Parker on May 18, 2007, in
Flushing.
An MS-13 gang member whooped it up, shouting
"The beast has eaten!" after murdering a Queens man
he mistook for a rival Blood, a government witness
testified Thursday.
Julio Chavez is charged with emptying his revolver
into Maurice Parker on May 18, 2007, in Flushing.
Chavez then hopped into a SUV, flashed gang signs
and yelled in Spanish, former MS-13 gang member
Jose Molina said in Brooklyn Federal Court.
" 'Yeah, homie, that's how you're supposed to do it,'"
Chavez said, according to Molina. "'You see the
blood coming out of his head?'"
Molina said Chavez then uttered, "The beast has
eaten!"
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ali Kazemi asked the witness
to translate the meaning of Chavez's rant.
"That he had just given a soul to the devil," Molina
said.
Parker, 21, was not a Blood and was mistakenly
targeted because he had on red sweatshirt.
Chavez and other members of a Long Island-based
MS-13 crew allegedly went hunting for a Blood to
retaliate for an earlier stabbing.
Defense lawyer Sam Schmidt ridiculed the rant
attributed to Chavez, arguing that the witness had
never mentioned it before in debriefings with
agents.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors announced
Thursday they will seek the death penalty against
MS-13 gang member Rene Mejia, who allegedly
helped execute a Long Island mother and her 2-
year-old son last year.
jmarzulli@nydailynews.com