Mom Honored By Trump After MS-13 Killed Her Daughter | Killed By SUV Near Memorial Site

A grieving New York mother whose daughter turned into brutally murdered by means of MS-thirteen gang contributors -- and who turned into later honored by using President Trump at a State of the Union address -- became struck and killed by way of an SUV Friday at her daughter’s memorial site after getting into a confrontation with the driving force.

Evelyn Rodriguez, 50, was preparing for a vigil whilst she turned into struck in Brentwood, N.Y., round four p.M. -–  years to the day the frame of her 16-yr-vintage daughter Kayla Cuevas turned into discovered in a wooded region of New York City's Long Island suburbs, that have been known for MS-thirteen violence.


Rodriguez become struck following a heated argument with the relative of someone who lives close to the memorial over its placement.

She and any other character had been standing in the road and yelling whilst the SUV sped toward them and struck her. The motive force was not arrested, however Suffolk County police stated their research become persevering with.

Rodriguez became taken to a clinic in which she died, the New York Post said.

President Trump supplied condolences in a Twitter message Friday evening.

“My mind and prayers are with Evelyn Rodriguez this night, at the side of her circle of relatives and pals. #RIPEvelyn,” Trump tweeted Friday.

Several other public figures remembered the devoted mother. U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., called her death a “tragedy beyond belief,” and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo praised Rodriguez’s “tremendous courage.”

Suffolk County District Attorney Tim Sini changed into a police commissioner when Cuevas and her friend Nisa Mickens, 15, have been killed and said Rodriguez was “one of the most powerful human beings” he’s ever met and that he turned into heartbroken over her death.

“She became a fierce advocate for her fatherland of Brentwood and became fearless in her fight to put an stop to the violence resulting from MS-13 to ensure that other mother and father by no means ought to endure the pain she suffered,” Sini stated.


Rodriguez were outspoken in opposition to gang violence after Cuevas and Mickens had been attacked and killed with machetes and baseball bats in 2016.

Along with Cuevas’ father, Freddy Cuevas, and Mickens’ mother and father, Rodriguez attended Trump's State of the Union address in January and sat alongside Trump at a gang violence forum in May in Bethpage, Long Island.

She conveyed the concern citizens felt to a House subcommittee ultimate year.

“The MS-13 gang is so unpredictable you just don’t know who's who with them,” Rodriguez stated. “MS-13 is a new breed of murderers, they may be children, kids killing children, and as they continue to grow, so does their strategies of recruiting helpless children into their wicked movements.”

Prosecutors says Cuevas changed into targeted due to disputes with MS-13 -- or Mara Salvatrucha -- gang members at her school and Mickens turned into in the wrong area at the wrong time.

She later sued the Brentwood School District for $110 million over claims that it unnoticed warnings that MS-thirteen gang individuals had been threatening her daughter, saying employees had didn't act.

The alleged killers face homicide costs that could bring about the death penalty.

Trump has lashed out at the gang since taking workplace, blaming the violence on smooth immigration rules.

An MS-13 member closing month pleaded responsible to a killing four guys who he believed to be rival gang participants in nearby Central Islip, N.Y..