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At least 7 injured in California gang-related shooting, police say

At least 7 injured in California gang-related shooting, police say

At least seven people were injured in a Long Beach, California, shooting late Saturday, according to police. Officers with the Long Beach Police Department responded to the shooting in the area of South Street and Paramount Boulevard at around 11:15 p.m. PT. “Approximately seven victims have been reported at this time and all of the victims either self-transported, or were transported by LBFD, to local hospitals,” the department said in an update. Police did not share what happened in the lead-up to the shooting. Four of the victims are in critical condition, while three had non-life-threatening injuries, police said. It’s not clear whether all the victims were shot. Police believe at least two males fired shots toward a group of people, according to an update the department shared Sunday on Facebook. No suspects are in custody, and while a motive remains unclear, detectives believe the incident was gang-related. Long Beach police asked the public to avoid the scene early Sunday while it investigates, in said in a post on Facebook. “This police department is dedicated …

Powerful photos of Haiti’s protests and gang-related violence

Powerful photos of Haiti’s protests and gang-related violence

This story contains a graphic image of dead bodies. Gangs have long wielded power in Haiti. But since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, they’ve filled a power vacuum, taking control of roughly 80 percent of the capital and displacing more than 300,000 people with a campaign of kidnappings for ransom, rapes and killings. The violence has worsened a devastating humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean nation of 11 million. Almost half of the population suffers from acute hunger. Conditions deteriorated further this month when the gangs, which usually battle one another, joined together to attack two prisons, the international airport, the principle seaport and several police stations. The Haitian presidency has been vacant since Moïse’s killing; the last lawmakers’ terms expired last year. That left Ariel Henry, the deeply reviled prime minister appointed by Moïse days before his assassination, in charge — until the recent violence prevented him returning home from a trip to Kenya. He had traveled to the African nation to finalize an agreement for a U.N.-approved, Kenyan-led security mission for …

Four men jailed for life for killing two rappers in gang-related revenge attack | UK News

Four men jailed for life for killing two rappers in gang-related revenge attack | UK News

Four men have been jailed for life with a minimum term of 38 years for the “horrific” murders of two rappers who were stabbed and shot in a gang-related revenge attack in east London. Saydi Abu Sheikh, 23, known as Giddy, and Zakariya Jeilani Mohamed, 31, who used the name Shifty, were killed in a house in Ilford on 25 October 2022. Around 45 shots were fired and Mr Sheikh was “butchered” during the midnight raid which lasted just five minutes. Image: Saydi Abu Sheikh was killed in October 2022 A third man, Khalid Khalid, was shot through the head but survived along with two more men who ran or hid. The murders were organised by Zain Mirza in revenge for the killing of his 19-year-old brother in November 2019. Prosecutor John Price KC said: “He was the one who most wanted it done. His motive was revenge.” Chibuike Ohanweh, 21, Ayaanle Adan, 20, Mahad Gouled, 22, carried out the attack, with Mirza nearby. Image: A police forensic van near to where the shooting took …

Prosecutor probing gang-related Ecuador live-broadcast armed assault killed

Prosecutor probing gang-related Ecuador live-broadcast armed assault killed

A prosecutor investigating the dramatic live-broadcast armed assault last week on an Ecuadoran television station was shot dead Wednesday, the country’s attorney general said. Issued on: 17/01/2024 – 23:29 3 min “In the face of the murder of our colleague Cesar Suarez… I am going to be emphatic: organised crime groups, criminals, terrorists will not stop our commitment to Ecuadoran society,” said Attorney General Diana Salazar in a statement on X. Local media broadcast images of Suarez’s truck with bullet holes through the driver’s window on a street in the port city of Guayaquil, the nerve center of Ecuador’s war against narco gangs. The murder comes amid a surge in violence in the once-peaceful South American country, which has become a hub for the global export of cocaine from neighboring Colombia and Peru. The government last week declared war on powerful drug gangs, who in turn threatened to execute civilians and security forces and carried out a wave of attacks that have left about 20 people dead. Last Tuesday, hooded gunmen burst into a TV …