Shootings of college students in 2007 called gang-related | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/08/2010
Shootings of college students in 2007 called gang-related Philadelphia Inquirer 04/08/2010: "gang expert expected to testify against a man charged with murdering three friends in a Newark schoolyard in 2007 said Wednesday that the slayings were gang-related and not the result of a random robbery attempt as originally speculated.
New York State Police investigator Hector Alicea testified at a pretrial hearing in the case of Rodolfo Godinez, the first of six defendants to face trial in the murders of Terrance Aeriel, Iofemi Hightower, and Dashon Harvey.
A fourth victim was shot in the head and survived but is not being identified by The Associated Press because of sexual-assault charges against two other defendants.
Three of the friends were Delaware State University students, and a fourth had planned to enroll that fall.
The barbarity of the killings - police said three of the victims were lined up in front of a wall and shot in the head, and a machete was used to slash at least one of them - stunned Newark residents and veteran law enforcement officials alike.
For months after the slayings, prosecutors characterized the murders as the result of a robbery gone awry and declined to confirm reports that some of the suspects were members of MS-13, a Salvadoran gang that expanded to the Los Angeles area in the mid-1980s and has since spread to the East Coast."
New York State Police investigator Hector Alicea testified at a pretrial hearing in the case of Rodolfo Godinez, the first of six defendants to face trial in the murders of Terrance Aeriel, Iofemi Hightower, and Dashon Harvey.
A fourth victim was shot in the head and survived but is not being identified by The Associated Press because of sexual-assault charges against two other defendants.
Three of the friends were Delaware State University students, and a fourth had planned to enroll that fall.
The barbarity of the killings - police said three of the victims were lined up in front of a wall and shot in the head, and a machete was used to slash at least one of them - stunned Newark residents and veteran law enforcement officials alike.
For months after the slayings, prosecutors characterized the murders as the result of a robbery gone awry and declined to confirm reports that some of the suspects were members of MS-13, a Salvadoran gang that expanded to the Los Angeles area in the mid-1980s and has since spread to the East Coast."
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