DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Federal immigration authorities confirmed that an MS-13 gang member charged in a shooting spree in Mississippi last week is an illegal migrant who had been previously deported from the U.S.
Fredy Antonio Amaya-Marin is a 39-year-old Salvadoran national living in the U.S. illegally, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.
The Philadelphia, Mississippi, Police Department arrested Amaya-Marin on Aug. 24 for allegedly shooting at about 15 vehicles and charged him with attempted murder.
Multiple shootings targeting vehicles passing through a road in Philadelphia, Mississippi, occurred over the course of several days last week, according to WLBT-TV, Channel 3, the NBC affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi. Authorities eventually apprehended a man who identified himself as…
