According to later testimony, on one occasion, Peña glanced in the direction of her younger friend as she was raped by Efrain Pérez and began weeping as she observed Ertman.
Both repeatedly struggled against their abusers, with Peña on at least one occasion attempting to fight off her attackers by repeatedly kicking her legs, and Ertman biting her attackers.
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According to trial testimony, both Peña and Ertman repeatedly glanced in the direction of one another several times throughout their ordeal in likely gestures of concern and despair. Both girls were sexually assaulted by all but one of the gang members, 14-year-old Venancio "Yuni" Medellín, on a minimum of four occasions. įive of the gang members proceeded to rape both girls for more than an hour repeatedly. She was thrown to the ground by gang members Peter Cantu and Derrick Sean O'Brien. Įrtman could've easily run to escape at this point but ran to help her friend. She was then forced to remove her underwear. In response, Medellín stated: "No, baby! Where you going?" He then clasped his arm around Peña's neck, threw her to the ground, and dragged her down a gravel decline in the direction of the other gang members as Peña screamed and pleaded for help. Peña brushed aside Medellín's hand and continued walking. One member, José Medellín, attempted to grope and pinch one of Peña's breasts. Within approximately 40 minutes of Villarreal accepting several bottles of beer from the other gang members and holding his first beer aloft, Ertman and Peña passed the gang. Shortly thereafter, he held a beer aloft, proclaiming things were to be great. Minutes later, the leader of the gang, Peter Cantu, approached Villarreal, exclaiming: "You're in! Dude, you're a badass! You're welcome to hang with us anytime!" Villarreal then sat alongside the other gang members, relaxing, talking, trading insults and compliments, and drinking beer.
As he lay writhing and moaning on the ground after being temporarily knocked unconscious, the gang members conferred privately to discuss whether to accept Villarreal as a member. By approximately 10:30 p.m., Villarreal had successfully fought two gang members before being beaten midway through his fight with the third member. Villarreal had not been a member of the Black and White gang or any gang but had engaged in this initiation ceremony whereby he had been forced to fight several gang members for five minutes successively before they judged whether to accept him. The girls were walking along the White Oak Bayou when they encountered six "Black and White" gang members drinking beer shortly after holding the gang initiation ceremony of 17-year-old Raul Omar Villarreal. This location was approximately one mile from Peña's home. Įrtman and Peña decided to take a 10-minute shortcut to Peña's residence in Oak Forest by following the railroad tracks and passing through T.C. When the pair realized they were going to be late returning home, they decided to leave the party to conform to the curfew both had promised their parents. As both girls exited the car, Peña assured her mother she and her friend would be home by their agreed 11:30 p.m. At approximately 8 p.m., Peña's mother, Melissa, drove the two girls to the home of their friend, Gina Escamilla, who lived in the Spring Hill Apartments and who was hosting a pool party for her school friends. on June 24, 1993, Ertman's father, Randy, drove his only daughter to Peña's home. Īlthough the girls were just over one year in age difference, both sets of parents approved of their friendship, with Peña's father viewing Ertman-a modest girl who had only recently begun experimenting with makeup-as a "positive influence" on his daughter, later recollecting that, shortly after the two became friends at Waltrip High School, Peña "just straightened up her act" following a brief streak of teenage rebellion in his daughter before her 1992 enrollment at the school. The case was also notable in that the state of Texas rejected attempts by the International Court of Justice to halt several perpetrators' executions.Įlizabeth Christine Peña (J– June 24, 1993) and Jennifer Lee Ertman (Aug– June 24, 1993) were close friends who both attended Waltrip High School. The murder of the two girls made headlines in Texas newspapers due to the nature of the crime and the new law resulting from the murder that allows families of the victims to view the execution of the murderers. The rapes and murders of Jennifer Lee Ertman and Elizabeth Christine Peña, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993. Pérez, Villarreal: Death commuted to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole Ĭapital murder, kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault.Double-murder, child murder, gang rape, child rape, torture murder, kidnapping
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