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News Articles: gang violence

The wife of a journalist, who was shot during an armed gang attack on the General Hospital, cries as an ambulance arrives with his body, at a different hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday.

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  • Latin America

A gang attack on a Haitian hospital reopening kills 2 reporters and a police officer

Street gangs forced the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince to close earlier this year. As journalists gathered to cover its reopening, suspected gang members opened fire.

December 25, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A customs agent wears a patch for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency on Oct. 27, 2017, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

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U.S. arrests reputed Peruvian gang leader wanted for 23 killings in his home country

Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, the leader of "Los Killers" who is wanted for 23 killings in Peru, was arrested in Endicott, N.Y. He is being held at a detention facility pending an immigration hearing.

August 15, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A server ladles soup into a container as children line up to receive food at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in March 2024. Gang violence in Haiti has displaced over 300,000 children since March, according to a new report from the U.N. children's agency released late Tuesday.

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  • Latin America

Gang violence in Haiti has displaced 300,000 children, the United Nations says

Children are more than half of the nearly 580,000 people who have become homeless in the last four months, the U.N.'s children agency said.

July 02, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The William A. Bootle Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Macon.

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Prosecutors worried gangsters might attack a Georgia jury. Here’s how they protected them

A Macon federal gangster trial last month connected to an Athens murder used an anonymous jury for safety reasons, court documents show, a rarity in the Middle District of Georgia.

September 21, 2023
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  • Micah Johnston
Fani Willis

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Political Rewind: Fani Willis considers RICO charges for Trump; YSL trial; GA's justice system

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Trump's lawyers filed a motion to dismiss every finding of the Fulton County special grand jury. Meanwhile, a new article suggests the YSL trial in Fulton County is straining resources. And, a new report from The Urban League highlights inequalities Black Georgians face.

March 21, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter smiles as his wife Rosalynn, rear, looks on while visiting the Cyber University of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 22, 2010. Carter will speech tomorrow about North Korea's nuclear and the Korean peninsula's peace. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)

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Political Rewind: Jimmy Carter enters hospice; Trump campaign called 120 legislators

Monday on Political Rewind: Former President Jimmy Carter announced his decision to stop medical treatment and enter home hospice in Plains, Georgia. Reactions have poured in from around the world. President Biden said he hoped Carter would "continue his journey with grace and dignity."

February 20, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Chase McGee ,
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Georgia state Sen. Bo Hatchett, R-Cornelia, addresses the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. The committee passed Hatchett's bill, increasing the sentences of people convicted of gang crimes.

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Kemp-backed measure seeks harsher Georgia gang sentences

Georgia senators are advancing a bill that would make prison sentences harsher for gang crimes. Senate Bill 44 would add a mandatory five years to sentences for anyone convicted of a gang crime and 10 years for anyone convicted of recruiting minors into a gang.

February 07, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Six adults suffered gunshot wounds in the hail of bullets that rained down on the King Estate complex, which houses four different schools Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday.

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An Oakland school shooting that injured 6 was gang-related, police say

Officials said at least two gunmen were targeting a specific person and that they are still working to determine what touched off the shooting. It comes amid a surge in violence across the city.

September 30, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo
A mural of Melissa Ortega, an 8-year-old victim of gun violence in Chicago, painted by artist Milton Coronado.

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Opinion: Painting the smiles of people we know, love and will never see again

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the work of Chicago-based artist Milton Coronado, who paints murals that memorialize people killed by gun violence.

April 30, 2022
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  • Scott Simon

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