Three males in Suffolk County pleaded responsible to beating and stabbing a homeless man, then leaving him to die in a roadside tent.
Jhon Lopez Campos and Julio Beltran of El Salvador, together with Guatemalan man Brayan Heredia Escobar, copped to committing manslaughter within the first diploma in dying of 39-year-old Candido Guadalupe Saravia Martinez. The sufferer can be from El Salvador.
Suffolk County prosecutors stated Saravia Martinez suffered blunt drive trauma to his face and physique and was stabbed in his neck previous to being discovered lifeless in February 2025. Authorities additionally found a rope across the sufferer’s neck. He and his killers had been stated to have been homeless in West Islip on the time of his dying.
Investigators stated a machete and a bloody knife had been situated inside Saravia Martinez’s tent. Video surveillance from space companies recorded three suspects operating from that tent on the day of the killing.
Lopez Campo, 18, and Beltran, 40, confessed to holding Saravia Martinez down whereas Lopez Campo, 18, battered him with the deal with of a machete. Prosecutors stated Lopez Campo then handed a knife to Heredia Escobar and instructed him to stab Saravia Martinez. The defendants allegedly claimed the killing was revenge from an alleged altercation that occurred months earlier.
Prosecutors stated Beltran pleaded responsible to his half within the killing Tuesday and faces a sentence of twenty-two years in jail. Lopez Campo and Heredia Escobar entered pleas final week. They face sentences of 25 and 20 years respectively.
