After the body of a male was recovered from the Roosevelt nature reserve on Wednesday, officials visited family members to obtain DNA samples to establish his identity.
One of those visited, a woman, speaking anonymously to NBC New York, said the police told her they believe it is the body of her younger brother, Josue Amaya, a 17-year-old Roosevelt high student, who vanished in 2016.
‘I’m completely destroyed. I have an enormous heartache. And all I want is justice,’ she said.
The discovery adds to MS-13’s growing body count on Long Island, with at least 25 killings now attributed to the Salvadoran gang in the vicinity over the last two years.
It comes days after Donald Trump called on the Congress to ‘finally close deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13 to break into our country’.
Homeland Security Investigations agents and Nassau County Police swooped on the reserve in Roosevelt, after receiving a tip-off.
At a news conference, police said a suspect arrested in connection to a different case, the murder of another Long Island teenager last year, told them...Read More HERE
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