Milagros Canjura was around seven months pregnant when found shot to death outside her Bay Shore home in Long Island, NY. The 31-year old rented an apartment with her husband (whom friends say was in jail) in the Stein Drive community (LINK 4). Family members say that Canjura was heading to work when the suspect parked right next to the home walked up to the car and opened fire. The victim’s body was found dumped on the beach. Officials say this is a retaliation hit from the gang MS-13 who had a reputed member murdered. Officials also state that this gang has a history of revenge killings involving family members. In this case, March 2014 the victim just happened to be Milagros Canjura who was pregnant. While leaving a baby shower she just
Born in LA in the 1980’s, expanding to parts of Canada, Spain, England, and Germany becoming bigger and dangerous day by day. La Mara can now be found in Washington D.C, Oregon, Alaska, Arkansas, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida just alone in the United States. In Central America they can be found in El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and several other Latin countries. MS-13 is considered to be one of the most dangerous and organized in the world (altereddimensions.net).There are two ways to get into the gang. For males one is to get jumped in, which means the new recruit is surround by numerous members and beaten for at least 13 seconds. The other way is by killing either an enemy gang member or just a simple killing. For females there is a third option which is to get having sexual intercourse with several MS members or as they call it gang banged. MS-13 has many similar criminal characteristics as other gang such as: smuggling drugs, people, and weapons. The biggest difference with MS-13 is the willingness to use brutality in all their activities (keysaferschools.com).
Have you ever heard the legend about La Llorona known as “The Weeping Women”?Do you hear that? Do you hear that crying noise? People say that if you hear her cry expect death! La Llorona is real, even though people say she is she is an urban legend. There has been sightings of her in many places.
The article I read this week was “MS-13 gang member narrated video of teen’s killing, FBI agent testifies” by Justin Jouvenal. Jouvenal discusses the murder of 15-year-old Damaris Reyes Rivas in Virginia. Shortly before her death, Damaris left her home in Gaithersburg, MD and became involved with the gang MS-13. The gang order Rivas death because she had lured an MS-13 leader, Sosa Rivas, to his death. First, Damaris was lured to Lake Accotink Park and was interrogated and beaten by MS-13 members. MS-13 members murdered her with a knife and large wooden stake, while Jose Cerrato captured this scene on video. The video was taken to send it to MS-13 leaders. 17 year-old Jose Cerrato captured the video so he could demonstrate his willingness to
On January 31, 2013, while walking to the courthouse in Kaufman County, Texas, Mark Hasse was shot and killed. Two months later, on the Saturday before Easter 2013, Mike and Cynthia McLelland were murdered in their home. Medical examiners testified that Mike and Cynthia were each shot numerous times (“Eric Williams Murder Trial Begins in Rockwall”). Prosecutors said the couple died in a “torrent of lead” (“Eric Williams Found Guilty in Kaufman Co. Murder Trial”).
The quadruple homicide was among seven killings in the South Shore neighborhood on March 30 — a spate of violence that came just as Chicago
Police discovered his mother, Yesenia Funez Beatriz Machado's remains inside the home. His two siblings were not harmed and a fourth child was safe at school when the murder took place. The teenager was calmly taken into custody after police found his
The Ms 13 gang is currently one of the most dangerous and powerful gangs in South America and the United States. As I dug into my research I discovered the reasons,strategies and cruelty of this gang.The majority of the members of this gang are people from Mexico,El Salvador,Honduras, Guatemala and some from Canada.Most of them are young men who grew up in a poor neighborhood and raised themselves in the streets watching the rest of the men in their family get killed or beaten up brutally because they were protecting their own.The gang was originally created in the ‘barrios” of Los Angeles in the 1980’s right after El salvador’s civil war. The name ‘ La Mara Salvatrucha 13 ‘ represents the clever salvadoran gang. The gang’s frightening motto is ‘Mata,Controla,Viola’( Kill,Control& Rape)This gang is made out of many smaller cliques the biggest one being the ‘surenos’.These gangs provide protection to each other and it facilitates their communication.By teaming up with other gangs they are able to manage easily other territories and mantain their power as one big union. Another way they’re gaining a lot of power is because they have formed an alliance with Los Zetas, who is one of the biggest and dangerous drug cartel in Mexico. Members of the gang are serving the Zetas as warriors for the gang which has made the Ms13 gain a lot more power.
In Montecito Heights, CA, a woman was out taking her dog for a walk in Ernest E. Debs Park (LINK 1) when she discovered the bodies of two teen girls. The girls were identified as Briana Gallegos 17, and Gabriela Calzada 19, who was not mentioned if they were in a gang themselves, they were affiliates of a local gang.
Luis Adolfo Gomez Zacarias was a local businessman engaged in retail sales of food and household items. For an extended period, prior to September 20, 2013, he was being extorted under death threats by an organized criminal gang, and when no longer able to pay the 500 Quetzal per month extortion demand, he was murdered. The day prior to his murder, he implored his spouse to take measures to protect herself and their child, prompting lead respondent to seek police assistance and protection when her spouse failed to arrive home from work. The police, ignored her multiple requests for help, and the following morning Luis Adolfo Gomez Zacarias was found murdered by gunshot to the head (see Tab G and Tab L). Local neighbors, familiar with police unwillingness to aid residents of the community under extortion threats by gangs, organized street protests against the police because of police inaction after lead respondent’s pleas for
A woman says she fought an attacker who tried to protect her unborn baby but failed. Wilkins had seen a craigslist advertisement over maternity clothing for her seven and a half month unborn baby. She had decided to arrive at the location that was provided and met the person. As she was being guided to the basement of Lane’s, Lane had turned around and started to attack Wilkins. The cause of this fight was Lane had jealousy over those women who were pregnant. She was overly obsessed about being pregnant and about having a child. Lane had even posted online that she was supposedly expecting a baby boy and a baby shower was done for her. This lady have the brutal fate of cutting Wilkins’ belly while she was conscious on the floor. Lane had taken the seven and a half month unborn baby from Wilkins and was taken to the hospital by her husband. Wilkins had called the police and was sent
“La Migra” by Pat Mora is a poem that leads to the different points of view of two opposite personnels. This poem was that it had a very simple, common setting and situation. “And you have been spotted by the sun… I know this desert, where to rest,where to drink. (Mora 1191). This set of lines tells me that the poem took place somewhere near the border where typically people try to cross the border. When crossing the border, there are some lakes or some deserts, it all depends on which part you cross. Although the desert seems empty and boring, this poem had an interesting situation. It gave the readers a chance to see what the two characters in the poem were seeing through their own point of view.
On 05/17/2016 at 1622 hours I was dispatched to Beach Club apartments, #F110. Located at 2350 S 8th Ave. Upon arrival Officer Daniels and I made contact with Tara PALACIO. PALACIO informed us that she had gone to DAY’S Apartment and had found a suicide letter on his door. The letter read, “The day family is gone. No son. My 3 little girls are gone and I am dead inside so what!? I got nothing and no where to go so I retire. Bang! ”
On October 17, 2015, Michael Santiago, a Chicago father, was jailed after his 6-year-old son accidentally shot his 3-year-old brother. While Santiago was at work, their grandfather, Israel LaSalle, was at their house watching them until Santiago arrived back. While the grandfather was upstairs, the boys were downstairs playing “cops and robbers” when all of a sudden the 6-year-old grabbed a gun that was on top of the refrigerator, wrapped in pajamas, and shot his younger brother, Eian, in the head. Immediately, LaSalle ran downstairs and rushed the boy to the hospital that was located across the street. However, in spite of the efforts, Eian’s wounds were too great and he died at the hospital. Michael Santiago, faces felony child endangerment charges. Police say that Santiago “confessed to purchasing the weapon illegally from a gang member. He told authorities he kept it for protection”.
Two of the women were white and one was black. His first killing was on December 13, 1990, and the body was found later that night shot and killed with both eyes removed. His first killing never made it to the media. Then, his second killing was on February 10, and this body was found the exact same way as the first. This time it went viral. They even put patrol officers in the area of the killing. The last and final killing was on March 18, and this murder was quite different than all others. This time, the women had facial bruises and a broken nose. In the eye sockets, they had found the tip of an X- Acto knife. They also found a pubic hair inside her body belonging to a white male (“Who is Charles”n.d.).
On December 24th, 2007 Joseph McEnroe and Michele Kristen, both 29, murdered six people with a .357 caliber magnum handgun. They shot and killed her parents, brother and his wife and their two children. The motive is believed to be money, her parents had requested they start paying rent on the trailer home they were living in (Green, 2014).