Outside the Springfield Garden apartments on May 5, 2007, Springfield resident Oscar Omar Lobo-Lopez ordered associate gang member Sergio Amador Amador to “finish” a man they believed was a member of a rival gang.

On Friday, Sept. 18, Lobo-Lopez, 30, was sentenced in federal court in Alexandria to consecutive sentences of life in prison and 10 years for his role in the fatal shooting.

Amador and Oscar Omar Lobo-Lopez, MS-13 gang members, killed Reyes because they believed Reyes was a member of the rival 18th Street gang, according to Col. David Rohrer, Fairfax County Chief of Police, Dana J. Boente, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Joseph Persichini Jr. of the FBI, and James Dinkins of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“After patrolling for Reyes earlier that day, Lobo-Lopez, Amador and other MS-13 members located Reyes at the Springfield Garden apartments,” according to Rohrer and Boente.

Armed with handguns, Lobo-Lopez, 30 of Springfield, and Amador, 29 of New York, shot Reyes.

Reyes fell in the apartment parking lot and Lobo-Lopez, the leader of the Hollywood Locos Salvatrucha in Northern Virginia, “ordered Amador to finish him,” according to Rohrer and Boente. “Amador then fired shots to Reyes’ head. Reyes suffered from seven gunshot wounds.”

On May 5, 2007, around 8:40 p.m., Fairfax County Police were called to the 7000 block of Commerce St. for a report of gunshots. Officers found Reyes, of no fixed address, dead in the parking lot, according to police reports at the time.

Amador, a member of the New York clique of MS-13 known as Surenos Locos Salvatrucha, pleaded guilty to murder in aid of racketeering. He was sentenced in federal court in Alexandria in June to life in prison.

A federal jury spent two hours deliberating April 21, 2009 before finding Lobo-Lopez, also known as “Joker,” guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering activity, murder in aid of racketeering activity and use of a firearm during a crime of violence causing death.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Morris Parker and Patricia Giles and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Richter prosecuted the two gang members.

The FBI’s Washington Field Office, Fairfax County Police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Suffolk County Police investigated the case.