MS-13 gang member admits he killed to ‘increase status’

An MS-13 thug Friday admitted to taking part in an April 2017 quadruple homicide that shocked Long Island.

Freiry Martinez, 17, told federal Judge Joseph Bianco that he’d been part of a group carrying clubs, machetes and knives that slaughtered Justin Llivicura, Michael Lopez, Jorge Tigre and Jefferson Villalobos in Central Islip.

The gang member, who pleaded guilty to four counts of racketeering murder and one count of conspiracy to commit racketeering, told the judge he killed to “increase my status in the gang.”

Martinez said he had used a machete and focused on killing Llivicura.

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