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Suspects Denied Bail In Md. Stabbings
Montgomery County Police Department
UPPER LEFT:Henry Caballero, age 20, who was charged with the stabbings that occurred yesterday in the Westfield Shoppingtown Wheaton mall. RIGHT: Jose Cornejo, suspect in a Montgomery County stabbing.
LOWER LEFT: Luis Guzman, suspect in a Montgomery County stabbing. RIGHT: Kevin Mendoza, suspect in a Montgomery County stabbing.
(Montgomery County Police Department)
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"They described one person," Riggs said.
Five people have been charged in the Springbrook attack. Police say the attackers and the victims are linked to gangs.
But Quito's stepbrother said yesterday that he did not believe his relative is involved with gangs. Henry Flores, 27, a construction worker from El Salvador, said he had been told by family members that Quito was stabbed in the back while trying to protect Gamero.
"It's scary, because you know that this can happen in school," Flores said. "When I came here, I didn't see a lot of gangs, but in the last two years, I see more and more."
A neighbor and former high school classmate of defendant Luis A. Guzman Jr., 19, said the presence of MS-13 had been growing in his Langley Park neighborhood.
The neighbor, 17, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said that he and Guzman had played street football together and attended High Point High School in Beltsville. The neighbor estimated that 20 members of MS-13 attended the school, and he said that the dress code had been changed this past school year to prohibit clothing with the number 13.
"They can do whatever they want. No one else can stop them. They just want to run the streets," he said.
He said he has seen more people hanging out on street corners wearing bandanas, hats and jerseys in the gang's preferred blue, as well as gang graffiti on basketball courts and bridges. "They see you walking around, and they throw up a gang sign at you," he said. "You see it all over."
Staff writers Fulvio Cativo, Jerry Markon and Joshua Partlow and researcher Magda Jean-Louis contributed to this report.
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