Newark Mayor finally acknowledges "gang overtones" to execution-style killing of 3 college students

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"It is obvious that, as information continues to come forward, that we're seeing some gang overtones that are involved with this," Newark Mayor Cory Booker said at press conference today, a day after police arrested the sixth and final suspect. "Though we do not know with any specificity if this was a gang-related event whatsoever."

Over the weekend, cops picked up the remaining three suspects wanted for the triple killing that has shaken residents and intensified calls to get the city's violence under control.

Rodolfo Godinez, 24, was arrested in Oxon Hill, Md. Saturday, and his 16-year-old half-brother was arrested 20 miles away in Woodbridge, Va. less than an hour later. The final suspect, Melvin Jovel, an 18-year-old former resident of the Ivy Hill Park Apartments in Newark, was arrested at about 3:45 a.m. Sunday at a relative's home in Elizabeth.

According to an informant, the 16-year-old was spotted hanging out with members of MS-13 in the Washington, D.C. area, authorities said. The notoriously violent Central American street gang has a strong grip in neighborhoods outside of the nation's capital.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/08/n...ect_fights.html

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Hmmm... This week its a 'gang-type' event, next week it will be a 'gang event'.