The minors were “discovered while beheading a 15-year-old girl” yesterday, Friday night, in an apartment building in the northern district of Guatemala City.
Three teenage girls aged 14 to 17, members of the gang Barrio 18, were arrested in the Guatemalan capital while beheading a 15-year-old girl, police announced today.
The minors were “discovered while beheading a 15-year-old girl” last Friday night in an apartment building in the northern district of Guatemala City, police spokesman Jorge Aguilar told reporters.
«Police officers patrolling the area heard screams and immediately began searching from which apartment building these calls for help were coming from.“, Aguilar explained.
«They entered the apartment building at the time of the crime: one of them was holding the victim and the other was filming with her mobile phone“, The spokesman added, clarifying that, despite the intervention of the police, the victim succumbed on the spot.
So far the motive of the crime has not been known.
The Barrio 18 gang, as well as its rival, Mara Salvatroutsaspecialize in blackmailing department stores and bus companies, killing employees who refuse to pay the amounts they demand.
Gangs and drug-related activities account for about 50% of the 3,500 violent deaths recorded each year in Guatemala.
