“Antichrist,” a nasty MS-13 gangbanger, will serve the next 55 years in federal prison for his involvement in the brutal machete slashing deaths of four alleged rivals in a Long Island park.
According to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Omar Antonio Villalta, 29, was sentenced to a long jail term on Wednesday for planning and carrying out the brutal killing in Central Islip on April 11, 2017, in collusion with other members of the infamous El Salvadoran gang.
Villalta is the sixth person condemned in connection with the quadruple killing of Michael Lopez, 20, Justin Llivicura, 16, Jorge Tigre, and Jefferson Villalobos, both 18. Villalta’s alias was “Anticristo,” which is Spanish for “Antichrist.”
Prosecutors alleged that over a dozen MS-13 members and allies were charged with the horrific killings because they mistakenly thought the victims were members of other gangs.
“My Office and our law enforcement partners have worked endlessly to hold MS-13 accountable for their unspeakable crimes and the harm they’ve caused to countless victims and their loved ones,” United States Attorney Joseph Nocella, Jr. said in a statement.
“This sentencing and others demonstrate our relentless pursuit to dismantle MS-13 and other violent criminal organizations in totality.”
According to authorities, the four men were enticed by two female MS-13 thugs to a wooded spot close to the community park on April 11, where Villalta and over a dozen other gang members and associates waited to jump.
In order to attack the victims, who they felt made fun of the gang on social media, Villalta distributed machetes, knives, and blades, while others made clubs out of tree limbs.
Prosecutors claimed that the vicious group surrounded the young victims, killed them, and then piled their lifeless remains in a remote area of the forest before escaping.
After the incident, Villalta, a member of the violent criminal organization’s Guanacos Lil Cycos Salvatruchas gang, escaped to Charlottesville, Virginia. On July 3, 2017, he assassinated Marvin Rivera Guevara in the Old Dominion State after the victim allegedly displayed an MS-13 rival sign, the 18th Street Gang.
Under the pretense of smoking marijuana and meeting ladies, the victim was convinced to travel with Villalta to a remote location, according to the prosecution. The convicted murderer and other gang members then pushed Guevara at gunpoint farther into the woods, where he was also killed with machetes and knives.
Later, the mutilated body of the victim was thrown into the river by the aggressive group from a nearby bridge.
In March 2023, Villalta entered a guilty plea to racketeering for each of the five murders.
