With time, as his research led to police intervention, he caught the attention of the city's gangs. In November 2024, during a period of escalating violence in the Haitian capital, gang members entered the compound where Gensley lived. They burned the radio station, my home and many other things in the area. They even killed his dog.
He was arrested with the SWAT team because he was considered dangerous. You don't make it to number one for stealing a car. You're at the top of this list because we believe you pose a serious threat to any person in any place where you may be. Bryan Fuentes Gramajo fits that bill.
Move comes after council tried to oust PM Fils-Aime and the US recently deployed warship to waters near Haiti's capital. Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council has handed power to US-backed Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime after almost two years of tumultuous governance marked by rampant gang violence that has left thousands dead. The transfer of power between the nine-member transitional council and 54-year-old businessman Fils-Aime took place on Saturday under tight security, given Haiti's unstable political climate.
Five Dublin criminals with over 120 previous convictions carried out a prolonged attack on a man by branding him with the word 'rat' using a hot-poker iron, waterboarding him, and running over him with an electric bike.
Police described the Oakland shooting as a gangland assassination, where three cars pulled up with four gunmen inside, who opened fire and killed 24-year-old Bert Brigham III. The shooting occurred more than four years ago, and though police say they caught three suspected Funktown gang associates with guns used in the shooting the very next day, everyone has avoided charges until now. On Jan. 7, Alameda County prosecutors charged a 25-year-old suspect, Hanif McLeod, with being one of the four gunmen who killed Brigham.
Local media reported that Pineida was shot on Wednesday by two people on motorbikes who opened fire on him, his mother and another women outside a shop in the north of the city. Ecuador's interior ministry said it has sent a special police unit to investigate. Guayaquil has become a hotspot for gang violence and drug trafficking, with 1,900 murders recorded between January and September - the highest in Ecuador.
Stockholm, Sweden - It's a sunny summer morning in the historic university city of Uppsala in central Sweden. Two teenage boys glide past a plaza filled with cafes and toward the sleek glass facade of the newly renovated railway station on electric scooters, their dark tracksuits hanging loosely on their slight frames. At about 9am, the boys board a train for the three-hour journey north to the small coastal city of Sundsvall, tucked between the Baltic Sea and rolling forests of pine and birch.
Gang leader from Brooklyn gets 15 years in prison for gun violence, drug trafficking A gang leader from Brooklyn has been sentenced to prison for plaguing Upper Manhattan with gun violence and drug trafficking, according to federal prosecutors. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 29-year-old Hugo Rodriguez served as the head of the "Own Every Dollar" gang based in Washington Heights.
Ecuadorians voted on Sunday to reject a package of referendum measures that would have allowed foreign military bases in the country. The result is seen as a sharp political setback for President Daniel Noboa, the 37-year-old conservative leader and close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump. The proposal was heavily backed by Noboa as a crucial step to confront drug traffickers and violent gangs.
"You have a 17-year-old kid who tried to kill people with a gun and is still walking around with guns," said a Manhattan police officer. "What do you think he's going to do with a gun? He's going to kill somebody."
This week, two men affiliated with a notorious street gang were convicted on multiple felony counts for their coordinated attack on the pair in Lake Forest in October 2018, authorities said.
These facts are not in dispute: In a span of four years and nine months, gang member William Arnold Armendariz III shot to death five people in three separate attacks, including the slayings of three people at a Banning cemetery in August 2020 as they held a memorial birthday party for a relative. Five years before that, just after midnight on Nov. 7, 2015, Armendariz had gunned down 51-year-old Charles Neazer on 5th Street in Banning.
For the first time Wednesday, prosecutors also released security camera footage of the chaotic gunfight, which unfolded Aug. 17 inside the Taste of City Lounge in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. The video showed patrons scrambling for cover as bullets ricocheted across the densely-packed club, with at least 40 shots fired from five guns, prosecutors said.
Forty years ago, Met Police officer Dal Babu came face to face with a gunman, a suspected member of an organised crime gang, who aimed at him - and pulled the trigger. He survived because the bullet got stuck in the barrel. Now retired from the force, Mr Babu said he had been called to reports of violence at a cafe in north London.
