A jury convicted an MS-13 member in the gang-initiated killing of a man in Silver Spring in 2022.

Carlo Yaque del Cid, 32, was found guilty on Monday of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Edvin Agustin Leon, according to a statement from the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office.

The Montgomery County Circuit Court jury also found Yaque del Cid, of Hyattsville, guilty of attempted first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the shooting of a second victim.

That victim, shot multiple times, survived by pretending to be dead and then crawled a quarter-mile in a park before neighbors called 911.

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Yaque del Cid faces a life in prison without parole when he is sentenced in June. Prosecutors argued that he ordered the shooting of the victims but did not shoot them himself.

β€œWe are very disappointed,” said Douglas Wood, Yaque del Cid’s attorney. β€œI thought there certainly was reasonable doubt.”

An MS-13 member was found guilty of first-degree murder, and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, in the death of 20-year-old Edvin Agustin Leon, pictured here.
An MS-13 member was found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Edvin Agustin Leon, pictured here. (Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office)

Two shootings

Montgomery County Police worked with the Baltimore FBI on the incident, which occurred in a wooded area of Northwest Stream Valley Park, near the 9000 block of Piney Branch Road.

β€œTwo higher-ranked members of MS-13 provided firearms to three lower-ranked members and directed them to shoot and kill the two victims,” prosecutors said.

Other co-defendants in the case have had their cases heard.

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