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   A New York woman admitted to running over and killing a grieving mother at   
   the same Long Island spot where the victim’s daughter had been beaten with   
   bats and hacked to death two years earlier by machete-wielding members of   
   the Mara Salvatrucha gang.   
      
   Annmarie Drago, 63, pleaded guilty to a charge of criminally negligent   
   homicide for fatally striking Evelyn Rodriguez, 50, with her vehicle   
   following a dispute about Drago’s dismantling of a memorial honoring   
   Rodriguez’s slain daughter, 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas, Suffolk County   
   District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced in a news release. Drago is   
   expected to receive five years of probation when she is sentenced on Aug.   
   1. Prosecutors recommended one to three years in prison.   
      
   “Evelyn Rodriguez was still mourning the loss of her daughter when this   
   defendant dismantled her daughter’s memorial, and then struck the victim   
   with her vehicle, ultimately causing her death. We hope this plea brings   
   some sense of peace and closure to Ms. Rodriguez’s family, a family that   
   has suffered multiple tragic losses, said Tierney. “My office is committed   
   to continue Ms. Rodriguez’s fight to combat the scourge of gang violence,   
   and to make our streets safer for all residents of Suffolk County.”   
      
   Rodriguez was killed on Sept. 14, 2018, when members of the media filming   
   for a vigil that evening called her after Drago dismantled the memorial to   
   her daughter on a sidewalk in front of her home in Brentwood.   
      
   Drago, who was involved in selling a house near the site, threw away   
   candles, a tablecloth, flower bouquets and vases. She loaded a table,   
   photo and floral arrangement in the back of her SUV and left, prosecutors   
   said.   
      
   Then she returned and got into a dispute with Rodriguez over the memorial.   
   With the media filming, Rodriguez approached Drago’s vehicle and demanded   
   she return the items. Drago accelerated her vehicle, knocking Rodriguez   
   down, and drove over her, prosecutors said. Rodriguez’s skull was   
   fractured, and she died at a hospital.   
      
   Drago was arrested, convicted and sentenced on a felony charge of   
   criminally negligent homicide. But in 2022, a New York appeals court   
   reversed the conviction after determining that prosecutors made “improper   
   comments during summation.”   
      
   The DA’s Office retried her this past October and a jury deadlocked on the   
   charge. Prosecutors had vowed to retry her a third time before Drago   
   entered her guilty plea on Friday.   
      
   Drago’s defense attorney said at the trial that his client was trying to   
   get away from a tense scene as Rodriguez shouted expletives at her.   
      
   “Fight or flight,” the defense attorney said, according to Newsday.   
   “Freddy and Evelyn were there for a fight, [Drago] was not … Flight was   
   the only reasonable thing to do.”   
      
   Prosecutors countered, “She wasn’t fleeing out of fear, she was fleeing   
   out of guilt,” the newspaper reported.   
      
   As Law&Crime reported, Kayla and her best friend, Nisa Mickens, 15, were   
   chased down and slaughtered by members of the MS-13 gang on Sept. 13,   
   2016. The gang members drove up to the girls as they walked near an   
   elementary school, jumped out of a car and attacked them, then hopped back   
   in the car and drove off. Nisa’s slashed and beaten body was found that   
   night. Kayla’s body was discovered the following day behind a house.   
      
   The tragedy prompted Rodriguez to become an anti-gang activist. She and   
   Nisa’s family were invited to appear with then-President Donald Trump in   
   2018 in a speech titled “What You Need To Know About The Violent Animals   
   Of MS-13.”   
      
   In his campaign against the gang violence, Trump visited Brentwood. At his   
   State of the Union address speaking out against MS-13 that year, Trump   
   recognized Rodriquez and Nisa’s parents. Rodriguez also spoke about the   
   murder of her daughter during a roundtable on immigration policy with   
   Trump in 2018 in New York.   
      
   https://lawandcrime.com/crime/woman-admits-killing-ms-13-victims-mother-   
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