HOUSTON, Texas – The leader of a Houston area MS-13 gang was convicted in a Texas criminal district court in connection with the murder of a 14-year-old Texas boy. The murder was carried out with the use of a machete as four gang members hacked the boy to death.
Jose Granados-Guevara, 23, was convicted by state district court Judge Terry Mlenniken following a three-day bench trial. The judge sentenced Granados-Guevara to spend 99 years in a state prison.
The victim, Jose Meraz, was taken by Granados-Guevara and three other gang members to wooded area in the west part of Houston near Addicks Dam Road on September 15, 2014. The MS-13 gang members passed the machete around as they killed the boy. Meraz was sentenced to death by Granados-Guevara after he refused to kill his own cousin as [art pf a gang ritual, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Meraz was reported to be an eighth-grade student from Thomas J. Stovall Middle School. That school is located on the north side of Houston in the Aldine Independent School District. He was said to be an entry level member of the MS-13 gang.
Court records obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed that Granados-Guevara was also charged with engaging in organized criminal activity and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in an unrelated case. Those charges were eventually dismissed. Court records do not show Granados-Guevara’s place of birth or citizenship. However, an immigration hold has been placed on the now convicted murderer. He does not appear to have any prior criminal record in Harris County. The Houston Chronicle reported the man is a citizen of El Salvador but did not list his immigration status.
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