Category Archive for : ‘Gang Violence’

BBC News
By Vanessa Buschschlüter
12/09/24

Haiti Gang Kills 110 People Accused of Witchcraft

At least 110 mostly elderly people have been brutally murdered by gang members in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, according to a human rights group.

The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) said a local gang leader had targeted them after his son fell ill and subsequently died.

The gang leader reportedly consulted a voodoo priest who blamed elderly locals practicing “witchcraft” for the boy’s mystery illness.

The United Nations said the number of people killed in Haiti so far this year in spiraling

Long Island Press
By Nicole Formisano
10/31/24

Mastic Beach Teenager Sentenced To 28 Years in Prison

A Mastic Beach teenager was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Oct. 30 after pleading guilty to manslaughter, robbery and more. The violence was all linked to his affiliation with the gang “No Fake Love,” or the “NFL.”

David Trent, 19, shot and killed Jorge Mauricio Sevilla Barrera and injured two others outside of the Minx Nightclub in Farmingville, and committed armed robbery against a Lyft driver in Wading River. Trent was one of 18 defendants indicted in

US News
Story by Philip Marcelo
Oct. 1, 2024

Woman Associated with MS-13 is Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison

A woman associated with MS-13 was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years in federal prison for her role in luring four young men to be killed by more than a dozen members of the violent transnational gang in the New York City suburbs.

Leniz Escobar was a “critical player” at nearly every step of the April 2017 massacre, “willingly and enthusiastically” helping to plan and execute the horrific killing, in which gang members armed with machetes, knives and