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| ‘They Keep Finding Bodies': Gang Violence in Long Island Town Fuels Immigration Debate |
| 2016-10-03 |
| [NYT] BRENTWOOD, N.Y. -- Four dead teenagers. Two weeks. One town. And a ruthless gang, the authorities say, was most likely responsible for the toll. Again. On Sept. 13, Nisa Mickens, 15, and her best friend, Kayla Cuevas, 16, were murdered, their battered bodies found near an elementary school here. A week later and just two miles away, the skeletal remains of two more teenagers -- identified as Oscar Acosta, 19, and Miguel Garcia-Moran, 15 -- were found in the woods near a psychiatric hospital. Oscar had been missing since May, Miguel since February. Their deaths have been ruled homicides. Brentwood, a hardscrabble town of nearly 60,000 on Long Island, 40 miles east of Manhattan, has reached another crisis point. For nearly two decades, MS-13, a gang with roots in Los Angeles and El Salvador, has been terrorizing the town, the authorities say, especially its young people. Since 2009, its members have been accused of at least 14 murders, court and police records show. School officials are scrambling. Police officers are searching. Students are frightened. Parents are anguished. "It’s so hard, I’m hurting," Evelyn Rodriguez, Kayla's mother, said last week. "I wish I could hold my daughter again." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 No matter how quietly it happens the targets would be well aware. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-10-03 10:55 |
| #6 Local politicians DON'T want anybody looking for bodies. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-10-03 10:00 |
| #5 Why quietly? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2016-10-03 09:12 |
| #4 If someone can provide a mailing addy, I will gladly make a donation to the efforts listed in #2. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-03 08:24 |
| #3 If the government can't or won't provide security in your person, your family or your property, it's no longer anymore legitimate than someone else who will. Both will expect 'taxes'. Why pay two? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-03 08:22 |
| #2 It's going to come down to hunting them. Anyone with gang tatts or MS-13 tatts gets quietly disappeared. |
| Posted by: Spinesing Gray3122 2016-10-03 08:18 |
| #1 The path to such a plan, however, runs through a fractured Suffolk County. Its former police chief is headed to jail, its district attorney is under federal investigation and a Justice Department settlement mandated changes in the Police Department in 2013 after findings of bias against Latino residents. Seems to be a pattern here. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-03 07:52 |