A man was brutally stabbed to death in July in Maryland.

The man had signs of trauma to his upper body.

And now, six of the seven people charged in that stabbing death have been identified by federal officials as members of the MS-13 gang and in this country illegally.

That’s according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and as Fox News reported.

The Baltimore County Police Department announced this past Tuesday that seven suspects, including a 16-year-old charged as an adult, were charged with killing 21-year-old Daniel Alejandro Alvarado Cuellar.

Cuellar’s body was discovered on July 31 in the grass outside an apartment building in the Towson area ā€” and it had “multiple sharp-force injuries,” officials said in a news release.

Related: Alleged MS-13 Member with Green Card Arrested for Rape of 11-Year-Old Girl

Police said Cuellar was the intended victim of a planned gang-related murder.

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But authorities also said a motive for the slaying remained under investigation.

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