4 dead of injuries consistent with methods used by gang

[brassmonkey]

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - Four young men found dead in a Long Island park from injuries inflicted by a sharp-edged object were killed in a way that is consistent with the methods of the MS-13 street gang, according to police, who declared war against gang violence in the suburbs of Long Island.

The victims, ranging in age from 16 to 20, were discovered in a wooded area near a soccer field in Central Islip, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy Sini said. He said the bodies had "significant trauma" wounds, and he believes all the victims were killed there.

He did not definitively say the killings were the work of the MS-13 gang but said the tactics - using sharp instruments and extreme violence - were consistent with the gang, which has been gaining a foothold on Long Island for years.

"This is a long-term war and make no mistake about it it's a war," Sini told reporters, announcing a $25,000 reward for information about the killings. "Today is a sad day in Suffolk County, particularly for the loved ones and the family members and the friends of those who were murdered, but we maintain our resolve."

William Tigre told reporters near the scene that an acquaintance told him Wednesday night that his 18-year-old brother, Jorge, was among those killed. The acquaintance also indicated he knew of the killings because he had been there.

The acquaintance "called saying that my brother was here, dead," Tigre, 21, said. "He just said, 'I saw your brother dying, and I escaped.' That's the only thing he said. He didn't say nothing else."

Sini confirmed to The Associated Press that police had begun a missing-person's investigation for Jorge Tigre on Tuesday. He would not comment on whether the teenager was among those killed.

The discovery of the bodies comes about a month after the arrest of eight MS-13 gang members in connection with the September killings of two teenage girls in nearby Brentwood.

Gang violence has been a problem in Central Islip, Brentwood and other Long Island communities for more than a decade, but Suffolk County police and the FBI began pouring resources into a crackdown after the killings of the girls, along with two other Brentwood High School students.

Prosecutors said Kayla Cuevas, 16, was targeted last summer by a group of four gang members because she had been feuding with MS-13 members at school and on social media. The group, which had been driving around looking for gang enemies, attacked when they came across her walking with Nisa Mickens, 15, in the street. The inseparable best friends were attacked with a machete and baseball bats, officials said.

Nisa "was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, hanging out with her childhood friend," former U.S. Attorney Robert Capers said in announcing the arrests. The site where the bodies were found Wednesday is near the federal courthouse where the killing suspects are being prosecuted.

The MS-13 gang, also called Mara Salvatrucha, is believed to have been founded as a neighborhood street gang in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s by immigrants fleeing a civil war in El Salvador. It grew after some members were deported to El Salvador, helping turn that country into one of the most violent places in the world. It's now a major international criminal enterprise with tens of thousands of members in several Central American countries and many U.S. states.

In December, President Donald Trump referenced the slayings in Brentwood during a profile for his Time magazine Person of the Year award.

One of his priorities is cracking down on immigrants who are in the country illegally and have committed crimes. He promised as much in a Time interview, referencing a Newsday story about the killings.

"They come from Central America. They're tougher than any people you've ever met," he said. "They're killing and raping everybody out there. They're illegal. And they are finished."

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[Horatio Caine]

Crips for live

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Horatio Caine

Crips for live

you mean

[Axeman]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

you mean

Looks like a trio of dreamers to me!

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Axeman

Looks like a trio of dreamers to me!

. i can blow up the spot!
if dreamers = killers i have some across my alley. we are kool i mean ms 13 they don't scare me. i can blow up the spot! as a kid i saw sur 13 every fuking place wondered what it meant. they were here decades ago!

[deonbell]

Wait until bodies start falling out of the sky. You guys have seen nothing yet.

It is too late now, You know that, right?

Here is your timeline.

1. When you guys up north max out your credit cards and student loans
2. you decide you want a job to eat. Because Reddit and your professors were wrong. Automation will not do everything and you will not get a check for doing nothing. (12 lines of Python will not roof a house)
3. You will have to go ask the nice Mexican for a job. He will not give it to you. Because you are lazy and call in to work and spend all your time debating discrimination.
4. You will go to jail for stealing food. Where the prison will be run by Mexican gangs.

[escorpio]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

. i can blow up the spot!
if dreamers = killers i have some across my alley. we are kool i mean ms 13 they don't scare me. i can blow up the spot! as a kid i saw sur 13 every fuking place wondered what it meant. they were here decades ago!

Brassmonkey's horn is warm tonight!

[Horatio Caine]

Originally Posted by escorpio

Brassmonkey's horn is warm tonight!

I'm surprised as well. Usually he is out of drug money around the 5th. On second thought could be that Hawaiian fruit punch wine.

[dillfly2000]

influenced too easily.

[beerptrol]

We get it. You don't like the brown people because they cut into your drug money.

[nico-t]

thanks for another death report idiot

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by beerptrol

We get it. You don't like the brown people because they cut into your drug money.

what? my kids are half brown

[Relic]

[Horatio Caine]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

what? my kids are half brown

Idiot, you do understand what "half brown" means? So who's the real daddy than?