Laken Riley went for a morning jog and never came home.
Now a Missouri family is burying their 15-year-old boy – and the story of how it happened will make you sick.
Miles Young believed he was going to meet a girl – and what was actually waiting for him is something no parent should ever have to hear about their child.
How Yefry Archaga Lured Miles Young Into a Fatal Ambush in Springfield Missouri
On March 12, a juvenile suspect picked Miles up at his Springfield home, leading him to believe he was heading to meet a girl.
He wasn't.
Days before the attack, Yefry Archaga – an 18-year-old Honduran illegal alien with reported gang ties – had been driving around Springfield with co-conspirators hatching the plan.
They coordinated two cars to track the boy's location.
Then they blocked the road.
Miles Young tried to run.
Archaga – wearing a ski mask, carrying a Glock-style pistol – chased him on foot.
Miles fell to the ground.
A witness listening on a FaceTime call heard him beg: "I just don't wanna die."
Archaga fired the fatal shot.
Miles was pronounced dead at Cox South Hospital from a single gunshot wound to the chest.
Prosecutors say Archaga "planned and set up a 15-year-old boy to be murdered" – those are the exact words from the arrest document.
Archaga is now sitting in the Greene County Jail, held without bond, with a federal ICE detainer on file.
He was here anyway.
He killed Miles anyway.
Biden Border Policies Brought an Illegal Alien With an ICE Detainer to Missouri
Archaga didn't materialize in Missouri by accident.
He got here the same way hundreds of thousands of others got here – through four years of Joe Biden deliberately dismantling every enforcement mechanism at the southern border.
Biden's DHS paroled illegal aliens into the country at a rate of over 1.2 million per year at the peak of his open-borders rampage.
Under Trump and Obama combined, that number averaged 5,600 annually.
Laken Riley's killer had been arrested by NYPD for acting in a manner to injure a child, then released back into American neighborhoods by New York sanctuary policies – before moving to Georgia and committing murder.
Miles Young's family described him as a "compassionate, loving, and kind 15-year-old who brought light to everyone around him." A big brother. A son. A grandson. A friend full of life who always showed care for others.
"No parent should ever have to outlive and bury their child," his family wrote.
He had his whole life ahead of him – right up until the moment Biden's border policy walked into Greene County, Missouri wearing a ski mask.
Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt has been saying what the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge: Democrats don't value American citizens more than illegal aliens.
He's right.
The same Democrats now screaming about due process for Yefry Archaga said nothing when Miles Young screamed for his life.
They call ICE agents the villains.
They block deportations in federal courts.
They defund cooperation with immigration enforcement at every turn.
And the price for their politics is paid by 15-year-old kids in Missouri who think they're going on a date.
Yefry Archaga is sitting in the Greene County Jail right now, held without bond, with a federal ICE detainer stamped on his file – meaning the government flagged him as a deportable illegal alien before he ever pulled that trigger.
Joe Biden put him here.
Miles Young paid for it with his life.
Sources:
- Stepheny Price, "Murder suspect on ICE hold accused of luring teen into death trap where victim's final plea went unheard," Fox News, April 6, 2026.
- Cullen Linebarger, "Horror: Gang-Affiliated Illegal Alien Lures 15-Year-Old Missouri Boy into Trap and Guns Him Down as He Begs for His Life," The Gateway Pundit, April 3, 2026.
- "15-year-old murdered in ambush shooting in Missouri — one suspect has ICE detainer," Blaze Media, April 7, 2026.
- House Judiciary Committee Republicans, "The Consequences of the Biden-Harris Administration's Open-Borders Policies: The Case of Laken Riley's Murderer," August 2024.
- Department of Homeland Security, "Making America Safe Again: DHS Arrests 17,500 Criminal Illegal Aliens with Laken Riley Act Crimes," December 24, 2025.
- Sen. Pete Ricketts, "Laken Riley's Murder 'A Direct Result of President Biden's Failed Border Policies,'" February 28, 2024.
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