Migrants charged with Jocelyn Nungaray murder now suspected of ties to violent Tren de Aragua gang

The illegal migrants charged with brutally murdering 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray may have ties to the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, authorities believe.Search warrants issued late last month reveal that Houston Police and Harris County District Attorney’s Office investigators are probing the TikTok accounts of Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, and Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, KPRC2 reported.On one account, investigators allegedly identified a series of emojis — a ninja, cross sword and a building — that gang members are known to use to identify themselves.There was also as message that investigators believe was intended for members both inside and outside the US that “involved TdA gang membership.”Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, and Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, both entered the country illegally at the southern border and were subsequently released into the US weeks before the murder.Both have been indicted on capital murder charges after they allegedly lured Jocelyn under a bridge in June, assaulted her for two hours and then strangled her to death before dumping her bound, stripped body into a Houston bayou.A video that investigators believe shows Peña Ramos on TikTok, reveals that he has two star tattoos and a rose tattoo, both of which are believed to be associated with Tren de Aragua.Additionally, investigators believe the clothing, shoes and hand signals featured in some of the social media posts show signs of TdA membership.Jocelyn’s killing quickly became the subject of the national media spotlight, with her family calling out the Biden-Harris administration for letting the two alleged killers into the country.“It makes it seem more real that these people are monsters and that these are evil people who do heinous things, don’t have a heart, who have no compassion for anybody,” Jocelyn’s mother Alexis Nungaray told KPRC 2 Tuesday.

“We really have no business burying our kids, they’re supposed to bury us.”“Th...