An illegal immigrant shot and killed a 15-year-old boy and used the gun to assault the teenager’s sister after trying to rape their mother, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The agency on Wednesday identified the suspect as Gildardo Amandor-Martinez.
DHS also identified the teenager as 15-year-old Luis Lopez, saying he died trying to save his mother.
Gildardo Amandor-Martinez is a rapist and cold-blooded killer who should have never been in this country,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a news release.The Biden administration’s open-border policies allowed this monster to walk American streets and commit these evil crimes, including murder, assault, and attempted rape, against a mother and her children,” McLaughlin added. “ICE has placed an arrest detainer to ensure Amandor-Martinez will not be released onto America’s streets and allowed to terrorize American families again.”
McLaughlin said arrest detainers are legal requests to law enforcement to hold illegal immigrants in custody until they can be turned over to immigration authorities.
Citing reports from media outlets, including FOX 56, McLaughlin said Amandor-Martinez tried to rape his girlfriend, Aleida Lopez, at their apartment in Kentucky on July 20.
McLaughlin said Lopez “fended him off,” so he bit her in several spots, including her hand and armpit.
When her son tried to intervene, McLaughlin said Amandor-Martinez shot him three times, killing him. He then assaulted Lopez’s daughter with the gun.
McLaughlin said the teen “was greatly admired and called a ‘sweet student’ by Rowan County Senior High School, where he would have been a sophomore this fall.
McLaughlin described Amandor-Martinez as a criminal illegal immigrant from Mexico, who attempted to enter the U.S. three times in 2021. She said he successfully entered the country illegally on his third try.
Pure evil,” DHS wrote on X. “Under President Trump and @Sec_Noem, Amandor-Martinez will not be released and allowed to terrorize Americans again.”