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Even in the violent world of the MS-13 street gang, the killings in northern Virginia in the summer of 2019 stood out. In that year, “the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area became an MS-13 ...
Texas authorities stumbled upon a suspected MS-13 gang member wanted for murder in El Salvador after pulling him over for defective brakes.. Luis Manuel Hernandez Bonilla was arrested Tuesday by ...
A known MS-13 gang member wanted for years for murder and terrorism in El Salvador has been busted living illegally in New Jersey. The arrest Friday of Johnathan Stanley Garcia-Vasquez in West New ...
Over time, the gang grew into a more traditional criminal organization. MS-13 has a longtime rivalry with the 18th Street gang. Many MS-13 members were deported to El Salvador after the end of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992, or upon being arrested, facilitating the spread of the gang to Central America. The gang is currently active in many ...
According to Delma Ordóñez, the president of an association for prisoners' families, a brawl broke out between members of rival gangs 18th Street and MS-13. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] An injured inmate stated that members of the 18th Street gang burst into a cell block and opened fire on other inmates or set them on fire. [ 14 ]
Escobar was only 17 when she convinced other members of the MS-13 gang to kill Miguel Lopez, 20, Justin Llivicura, 16, and Jefferson Villalobos and Jose Tigre, both 18, by showing them social ...
Beginning in the 1990s, crime committed by street gangs became a major problem in El Salvador after many Salvadoran refugees from the country's civil war began to be deported from the United States. Many of these deported Salvadorans were members of street gangs, most notably Mara Salvatrucha ( MS-13 ) and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18).
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.