A suspect charged in connection with the MS-13-related abduction and killing of a 15-year-old in Fairfax, Virginia, was wearing a court-ordered electronic monitoring device at the time of the slaying, according to a search warrant.

Cellphone videos shot by the alleged perpetrators also captured the brutal killing of Damaris A. Reyes Rivas of Gaithersburg, Maryland, in a Virginia park in early January, according to the search warrant.

A detective wrote in the search warrant that the 15-year-old was killed in retaliation for the MS-13-related slaying of 21-year-old Christian Alexander Sosa Rivas in Prince William County, Virginia, on New Year’s Eve.

The juvenile suspect in Damaris’s killing was wearing an ankle bracelet ordered by the Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court because he was on post-conviction probation, according to the search warrant.

The Washington Post generally does not name juvenile suspects charged with crimes.

Representatives of the court and Fairfax County police did not immediately respond to questions about whether they are investigating how a suspect was alleged to have participated in a killing while under court supervision.

The videos of the killing show the interrogation and taunting of the victims by several males and a female, according to the search warrant.

Some of the videos depict the interrogators holding a knife, poking the victim with a knife and stabbing her with a large pointed log, according to the search warrant.

“In one of the videos, the victim is lying supine on the ground surrounded by dead leaves and bleeding heavily from large wounds on different areas of her body,” the search warrant reads.

Ten people, including six juveniles, have been charged in connection with Reyes Rivas’ killing. Six suspects, including one juvenile, are charged in connection with Sosa Rivas’ killing in Prince William County.

(c) 2017, The Washington Post · Justin Jouvenal

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