Overview

• Jurors on Sept. 19 found Wilson Arturo Constanza-Galdomez, Edis Omar Valenzuela-Rodriguez and Jonathan Pesquera-Puerto guilty of racketeering and murder after an approximately two-week federal trial.
• Prosecutors linked the men to the 2020 killings of 16-year-old Gabriella Alejandra Gonzalez Ardon near Loch Raven Reservoir and 18-year-old Michelle Elizabeth Tenezaca near the CSX Bayview railyard.
• The government said the attacks served MS-13 status-seeking within a local clique, describing Gonzalez Ardon’s killing as a “feeding frenzy” and noting Tenezaca was stabbed 143 times.
• The case also involved four attempted killings targeting perceived rivals or suspected cooperators in Baltimore City and County, according to trial evidence.
• Each defendant faces a mandatory life sentence; a judge rejected prosecutors’ late bid to seek the death penalty, and no sentencing date has been set.