Gang Violence - Page 4

Last week, I introduced the Cracking Down on Gangs and Deporting Criminals Act to replicate Georgia’s anti-gang, pro-community safety measures across the country.  

Police in the French commune of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges arrested 28 people believed to be smugglers of contraband cigarettes and who were also involved in a local gang war.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele authorized the police to use “lethal force” against gang members on Sunday, accusing gangsters of taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to launch a deadly rampage against cops and law-abiding Salvadorans.

Due to the lockdown measures put in place to combat the Wuhan coronavirus, illegal drug shortages have increased both prices and tensions among French dealers.

Residents of a Brooklyn, New York, community rallied together in support of a teenage victim who had been assaulted by a gang on Thursday, police said.

As violent crime continues to surge across France, it is estimated that as many as 120 knife attacks occur on average per day across the country.

Video of what has been reported as an attack involving Kalashnikov rifle fire in the French city of Nîmes was posted on social media over the weekend.

Three people were wounded on Christmas day following a shootout between drug gang members involving military-grade automatic weapons. 

Two people were fatally shot outside a nightclub in Norrköping, Sweden, as gang violence continues to plague the country.

A poll has shown that only eight per cent of Swedes think the ruling Social Democrats can solve the rising problem of gang violence in the next six months.

Following the shocking display of violence by machete-clad youths at a cinema in Birmingham, two cinema chains have decided to pull screenings of the BBC backed gangster film, Blue Story.

Swedish authorities have stopped and inspected over 5,000 vehicles in 36 hours at the ports of Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Trelleborg as part of a new operation to tackle gang crime networks.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has claimed that there is no link between the high number of migrants the country has taken in recent years and the rising problem of gang violence.

Police in Malmö disarmed several devices in the southern Swedish city that were later confirmed to be explosives.

Two of the five gangbangers convicted for the violent murder of Bronx teenager Lesandro ‘Junior’ Guzman-Feliz flashed gang signs during their sentencing in court Friday. 

Five gangbangers were sentenced Friday after being convicted of the violent murder of Bronx teenager Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz in 2018.

Chicago gangbanger Dwright Boone-Doty was found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday in the November 2015 death of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee.  

Municipal police in Ciudad Juárez arrested a cartel hitman earlier this week who is wanted for series of attacks in this Mexican border city.

A suspected gang member in a white BMW allegedly gunned down his rival in a drive-by shooting in Queens, according to a video of the incident.

Residents of the Swedish city of Karlstad have expressed concerns after the city saw two shootings in a two-night period, sending victims to the hospital with gunshot wounds.

Head of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) Anders Thornberg has told Swedes to get used to the current level of shootings, saying it could remain high for many years to come.

Swedish Moderate party leader Ulf Kristersson has slammed the surge of gun violence across the country as Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has vowed new measures to tackle gang crime.

The New York Times unmasked a group of freedom fighters in Honduras who dared to take on the much-feared MS-13 gang. The U.S. publication printed their names, published photographs of their faces, families, and homes — allegedly without permission — thus putting a target on the members of the self-defense group.

At least 55 people have died in prison riots in Manaus, Brazil, since Sunday in a prison complex notorious for overcrowding and extreme violence.

March of 2019 has been the first month in three years in which the Swedish southern city of Malmö has not had any reported shootings, according to police.

Mongrel Mob leader Sonny Fatu is making it clear his gang will not be surrendering their guns as mandated by the New Zealand government. 

A suspected Honduran MS-13 gang member gunned down two municipal police officers and a suspected rival gang member in the southern Mexico border state of Chiapas this past Tuesday. Security cameras captured the murder of the two police officers and led to an extensive manhunt for the killer.

Nayib Bukele, the former mayor of San Salvador, won a commanding victory in El Salvador’s presidential election on Sunday. He won more votes than all three of his rivals combined. Bukele ran as an outsider determined to clean up corruption. His sweeping win could spell the end of El Salvador’s entrenched two-party system.

Authorities have arrested a suspected MS-13 gang member and are looking for an additional suspect after a man was killed in broad daylight Sunday on a New York City subway platform, police said.

Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the Metropolitan Police’s gangs matrix to be overhauled because the vast majority named are young, black men.

Over the last two years, Stockholm county has seen a total of thirty fatal shootings, but according to a review of the cases, only eight individuals have been convicted for the crimes.

Six members of the MS-13 gang are accused of butchering a Massachusetts teenager with a knife as if they were “chopping wood.”

A judge sentenced a Honduran national to five years in federal prison for illegally re-entering the U.S. after being deported eight times.

Stanford researchers are promoting a study on children and guns that includes firearm related injuries and deaths for people 15-18-years-old.

Authorities are on the lookout for two MS-13 gang members who allegedly stabbed a New York City teenager in August.

HOUSTON, Texas — Five men who police say are well-documented gang members teamed up to allegedly burglarize a pharmacy located on the city’s southwest side. Houston Police Department officers say they caught the group leaving the area of the burglary and they were carrying tools commonly used for such jobs.