Apparently he was a member of MS-13 doing what they do best, terrorizing communities and creating anarchy:
Montgomery County police said yesterday that they had arrested a 20-year-old Takoma Park man, who is allegedly affiliated with a Latino gang, in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old honor student on a crowded bus in Silver Spring on Nov. 1.
Police said the alleged shooter, Hector M. Hernandez, was arrested Friday afternoon at a fast food restaurant in Langley Park, in neighboring Prince George’s County. Lt. Paul Starks, a Montgomery police spokesman, said Hernandez is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador.
Hernandez was being held at the Montgomery County Detention Center on a first-degree murder charge.
Starks said the investigation could prompt as many as four additional arrests. “There were other people there at the time of the event,” he said. “Whether they will be prosecuted or not remains to be seen.”
Police said that Hernandez was affiliated with Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, an international gang with a strong presence in the Washington area. Some members are immigrants from El Salvador and other countries in Central America.
The killing is the first in the Maryland suburbs that police have publicly linked to an affiliate of MS-13 in more than a year, although police say gang members have been suspected in other slayings.
The shooting was particularly brazen, indicating to me that police “suspicions” of MS-13 being involved in several other homicides is sugar coating to say the least. The shooter’s crew was completely comfortable initiating conflict with children on a public bus, then opening fire on that bus in broad daylight. Hernandez’s lawless act was a re-enactment of El Salvadorian anarchy, imported here by a transnational paramilitary that is slowly taking control of vast swathes of our country.
MS-13 is a threat to American national security and must be dealt with as the terrorists they are. We must secure our borders and eliminate the transplanted Latin American gangs before they destabilize America the way they are destabilizing Mexico.
h/t T.D.K.O.M.