Pain-wracked murder victim screamed for his mother ‘as girlfriend ordered killers to forcibly tattoo him’
A murder victim screamed with pain and begged for his mother as his killer girlfriend ordered him to be forcibly tattooed, police say.
Younis Alhassinyani, 22, wailed in anguish as his partner Erika Perez, 28, filmed him being held down on a table at her apartment last month, it is alleged. Perez, from Arlington in Texas, is said to have ordered the tattooist to ink her name on Younis’s neck, and snarled ‘Ouch, loyalty hurts more,’ as her victim wept with pain.
Perez is also said to have ordered alleged accomplice Benjamin Delgadillo, 21, to deface a tattoo on Younis’s back, and allegedly watched in delight as Delgadillo pushed the needle down hard on her love to hurt him. A video shared on Facebook showed Younis beg: ‘Do it a little softer. That shit hurts.’
Delgadillo is said to have ignored the pleas, and sneered: ‘Hey, my bad. I am not a professional tattooer.’ The torture session ended with Delgadillo and three other men ordering Younis into a Dodge Challenger, it is claimed.
They are then said to have driven up a quiet road and ordered him out, with alleged killer Justin Jaxs Salinas, 22, accused of shooting Younis dead. The victim’s family frantically tried to find him after he disappeared, with Younis’s body found face-down in a ditch three days after he vanished.
Younis, who was originally from Kurdistan, went to Perez’s house for a ‘tap out’ tattoo session, where customers pay $500 for as many tattoos as they can handle having.
Perez advertised the session on Facebook, and filmed herself saying: ‘There’s tats going on over here guys,” she said. “Whoever wants to get tatted up. My favorite and best tattoo artist is here. But you have to come with money.’
She is said to have trapped Younis after he became the only person to come over, with the evening escalating into horrific violence, NBCDFW reported.
No motive for the killing has been shared by police, with Perez initially claiming she had ordered Younis to leave after an argument.
Younis’s murder was exposed after the video of him being tattooed emerged. Delgadillo, Salinas and Pedro Rodriguez, 21, who drove the Dodge allegedly used to transport Younis to his death, have all been arrested.
They have been charged with capital murder, meaning they face execution if convicted, with Perez previously charged with murder when he was 16, only for those charges to later be dropped.
The fourth, unnamed gunman remains at large, but police say they have identified him, and hope to apprehend him soon.
Perez has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, failure to report a felony, and making a false report to police.
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