With this, I know that she sees me,
she knows that I'm fighting for her,
and I will continue to fight until the day I
die.
Elizabeth Alvarado, mother of Nisa Mickens,
keeps her daughter with her always,
with Nisa's signature tattooed to her arm.
I just want it done.
They need to pay for what they did.
Mickens was brutally killed alongside her best friend Kayla Cuevas.
Ms. 13 gang members used bats and machetes in a
vicious attack that shocked the nation back in the fall
of 2016.
Wednesday, local MS13 leader Alexi Sands admitted to giving the
green light for the murders and participating in other deadly
violence as part of pleading guilty to federal racketeering and
weapons charges. He's an animal.
He's, you know, he's inhumane,
You know, I mean, would he have did that to
his own?
Family member, sister or cousin or somebody.
Cuevas his father Freddie expressed frustration the death penalty was
taken off the table for Sands,
who's now facing between 40 and 70 years in prison.
Freddie will speak at the sentencing on behalf of both
his daughter and his partner Evelyn Rodriguez.
Rodriguez became an anti gang activist before she herself was
killed in 2018 when she was struck by a car
during a dispute over a memorial marking her daughter's death.
She'll be there in spiritual essence but.
It's just it's going to be a,
a, a.
A a long hill battle still as well.
Federal prosecutors say the Sands plea deal will only stand
if his brother,
another gang member, accepts a similar deal.
George Johnson, father of another victim,
Michael Johnson, says he's fed up with the whole process
and the years it has taken.
I don't know what the death penalty didn't stay on
the table.