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On February 2, 2019, an MS-13 member fatally shot a member of the rival 18th Street Gang on the New York City Subway's 90th Street–Elmhurst Avenue station in Queens. [ 186 ] [ 187 ] On the same day graffiti with the gang's name was scrawled on the wall outside the district office of local city council member Francisco Moya . [ 188 ]
The 18th Street Gang, also known as Eighteen St, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America, [1] [15] [16] [17] is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles.
According to court records, a group of four men approached Sarmiento-Peralta and asked if the shirt he was wearing with a number “8” meant that he was a part of the rival 18th Street gang.
The prison has been an ongoing scene of cross-gang conflict, particularly between the 18th Street gang and MS-13, deadly archrivals. Killings were increasing in the prison in the years leading up to the riot, with violent incidents being recorded for the first time at the facility in 2020. [2]
Two senior members of the violent MS-13 gang are among more than a dozen indicted for a series of grisly machete murders across Long Island and Queens, according to prosecutors.
Many of these deported Salvadorans were members of street gangs, most notably Mara Salvatrucha and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18). Gang violence between MS-13 and Barrio 18 resulted in El Salvador having one of the highest intentional homicide rates in the world. Other crimes committed by Salvadoran street gangs included kidnapping, extortion ...
On the day the 17-year-old died in the hospital, one person told police witnesses were threatened with violence by MS-13 gang members seeking to “eliminate” them.
A low-level MS-13 “chequeo” testifying at a federal trial in Brooklyn described the moment the brutal gang’s boss told him it was time to move up in their world — by killing a member of ...