14-YEAR OLD GIRL KILLED IN TUNNEL, BEATEN WITH BAT: FOR ONLY ONE REASON!

In a horrifying case, a girl in her teens was allegedly killed in a tunnel, naked, beaten with a baseball bat and slashed with a machete. She has been identified as Ariana Funes-Diaz. She was murdered by MS-13 gang members who worried she was about to hand them over to law enforcement.

The gang was worried that Funes-Diaz would go to law enforcement and complain about them so they brutally attacked her in an assault recorded on camera and left her.

According to The Washington Post report, she had been lured there on April 18, by MS-13 gang members who worried she was about to hand them over to law enforcement. Three teens, including another 14-year old girl, have been arrested and charged as adults with first-degree murder, Prince George’s County police announced. Funes-Diaz’s body was then discovered in a wooded area in Riverdale, about one month after she was killed.

The Post further stated that, it was less than a day earlier that the 14-year-old herself had been the one to draw a man to Northeast Washington, where he was beaten, robbed and interrogated about his gang affiliations, according to court documents and three individuals familiar with the investigation. But the man was a family friend, court documents said, and at one point, the girl begged for mercy for him. Worried that Funes-Diaz would go to law enforcement, the gang members brutally attacked her in an assault recorded on camera and left her.

Meanwhile, a judge on Friday ordered Joel Escobar, 17, and Cynthia Hernandez-Nucamendi, 14, to remain jailed without bond pending trial in Funes-Diaz's killing. A third suspect, Josue Fuentes-Ponce, 16, is expected to appear in court on Monday. Authorities are still working to identify a fourth person, suspected of filming the attack on Funes-Diaz.

According to the police, Funes-Diaz had run away from the youth group home where she had been living in Anne Arundel County, according to two individuals familiar with the investigation. Anne Arundel County police said she was reported missing April 11. Hernandez-Nucamendi told police that she stood outside the tunnel during the attack and heard "several distinct sounds, which she believed was [Funes-Diaz] "being struck with the machete." Escobar and Fuentes-Ponce came out of the tunnel with blood on their faces and clothes.

Reportedly, Fuentes-Ponce washed the bloody machete in the creek before they all walked out of the woods and drove off to their respective places. The machete was later found still covered in blood in a park in the District of Columbia.