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The murder of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz occurred on June 20, 2018; the 15-year-old was killed by members of the Dominican-American gang Trinitarios in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx. The death occurred in a case of mistaken identity. Public outrage arose when graphic video of the murder began to circulate on the Internet.
More than a dozen south Brooklyn gangbangers were charged in a massive sweep for their alleged roles in 19 shootings that left nine people wounded and killed a rival gang member in Sheepshead Bay.
Content warning: This story contains graphic images and descriptions of a beating that led to the death of an inmate. The yellow glare from prison floodlights obscures the camera’s view as it ...
Forty Thieves (1825-1860s) - Considered the first known street gang in New York City; Gas House Gang (1880s-1910) Ghost Shadows (1970s-1990s) Gopher Gang (1890s-1910s) Grady Gang (1860s) Honeymoon Gang (1850s) Hook Gang (1866-1876) Hudson Dusters (1890s-1917) Jheri Curls (1990s) Kerryonians (1825-1830s) Lenox Avenue Gang (early 1900s-1910s ...
Carl Cintron photographed after his arrest, 1959. Mau Maus was the name of a 1950s street gang in New York City.The book and the adapted film The Cross and the Switchblade and biography Run Baby Run document the life of its most famous leader Nicky Cruz.
A crew of nearly two dozen young Tren de Aragua gang members shacking up at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown are wreaking havoc in Times Square, but remain free because of their ages.
The gang was involved in murders, assaults, armed robbery, arsons, and bookmaking operations in Westchester, the Bronx and the Upper West Side of Manhattan. [ 4 ] On March 6, 1992, two members, Darin Mazzarella and Joseph Petrucelli got into a racial argument and shot 16-year-old Kasiem Merchant to death in New Rochelle . [ 5 ]
The violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua trickled into the Big Apple hidden among the thousands of migrants flocking to the city. They've used the shelter system to establish a criminal foothold.