Guatemalan court findings against other former soldiers put López at the massacre but include few details of his involvement beyond taking the boy. The massacre took place at the height of Guatemala's more than three-decade civil war, which claimed at least 200,000 lives before ending in 1996. Afterward, López tried to fend off deportation, but the Justice Department argued that López prevented villagers from escaping the massacre. López said he was a baker in the army and assigned to stand guard while others carried out the massacre. In an interview last week at a California immigration detention facility, López said he guarded women and children during the massacre but killed no one.

Source: Fox News August 11, 2016 12:33 UTC