On Sept. 14, 2016, the body of Kayla Cuevas was found, bludgeoned to death by members of MS-13 and left beside a house at 6 Ray Court in Brentwood.
Two years later exactly, her mother, Evelyn Rodriguez, who had become a renowned anti-gang activist, was run down on Ray Court by the homeowner’s daughter.
The daughter, Annmarie Drago, had grown weary of unceasing memorials near the property, prosecutors said.
The prosecution of Ms. Drago followed a byzantine nearly six-year path of conviction, reversal and retrial as attention seeped away and Ms. Rodriguez’s family fell to pieces.
For Kelsey Cuevas, 26, Kayla’s sister and the sole survivor of a tight triad of women, it has been a torturous ordeal with an unjust ending.
Persons:
transfixed, Kayla Cuevas, bludgeoned, Evelyn Rodriguez, Ray, Annmarie Drago, Ms, Drago, Rodriguez’s, Kelsey Cuevas
Organizations:
Ray, Brentwood .
Locations:
Brentwood, Suffolk