Gang targeted by Trump ‘beheaded man and ripped out his heart’

A MEMBER of an El Salvadorean gang has been charged with murder after a man was lured to a park near Washington, stabbed 100 times and decapitated before having his heart cut out.

Miguel Lopez-abrego, 19, was arrested by Maryland police earlier this month and charged with murder, documents revealed on Wednesday.

His indictment is the latest in a crackdown initiated by President Donald Trump on the notoriously violent MS-13 gang. The president promised to round up members and deport them.

Prosecutors accuse Mr Lopezabrego of luring an unidentified man to Wheaton Regional Park, 10 miles north of the capital.

An informant told police that Lopezabrego helped dig a grave for the victim and used a walkie-talkie to tell the other gang members when the victim had arrived.

Then the gang members choked him, stabbed him more than 100 times, decapitated him and dismembered him, the informant claimed. They ripped his heart out and threw it into the grave they had dug for him.

On Sept 5, detectives were led to the body, which had injuries consistent with the torture the informant described.

Police are working to identify the victim, who was described as Hispanic and wearing a rosary and a sweatshirt with a Methodist church logo on it.

Lopez-abrego was in the country illegally. The gang formed in Los Angeles in the Eighties from Salvadorean immigrants fleeing their civil war. This month police said 267 gang members had been arrested in a year-long effort.