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Houston police are searching for gunmen responsible for a shooting in southwest Houston that sent three people to the hospital on April 12, 2017.
Keep clicking to learn more about the MS-13 gang.
Houston police are searching for gunmen responsible for a shooting in southwest Houston that sent three people to the hospital on April 12, 2017.
Keep clicking to learn more about the MS-13 gang.
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MS-13 is one of the most feared and brutal gangs in the world and has been responsible for crimes all across the western hemisphere, including a number of especially disturbing cases in Houston.
Here at the things you need to know about the deadly MS-13 gang. less
MS-13 is one of the most feared and brutal gangs in the world and has been responsible for crimes all across the western hemisphere, including a number of especially disturbing cases in Houston.
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A Mara Salvatrucha gang member attends a mass celebrated by Archbishop Luigi Pezzuto, Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador, and head army and police chaplain Monsignor Fabio Colindres at a prison in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador, Monday in 2012.
Photo: Luis Romero, Associated Press
A MS-13 gang member shows his tattoo identifying him as a member of that gang.
A MS-13 gang member shows his tattoo
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J
ulian Garcia, a former MS13 gang member, had tattoos removed at the “Goodbye Tattoo” clinic in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Since the privately-funded clinic opened in 2000, volunteer workers have removed thousands of tattoos from young people who want to leave gang life behind.
Back in 2009 in Houston, a group of the MS-13 gang members entered a beauty saloon located nearby at 2724 Crossview to , commit an armed robber and rape an employee.
Back in 2009 in Houston, a group of the MS-13 gang members entered a beauty saloon located nearby at
Photo: Smiley N. Pool, Houston Chronicle
This is a machete used by a MS-13 gang member during the armed robbery of a Houston Beauty Saloon back in 2009.
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An MS-13 gang member shows his tattoo identifying him as a member of that gang. He participated in an armed robbery in a beauty saloon located at 2724 Crossview #106, in South West Houston, on January 17, 2009.
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Members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang at the Ciudad Barrios prison in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador, Aug. 14, 2012.
Members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang at the Ciudad Barrios prison in
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An example of a tattoo of the gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). The Obama administration has labeled a violent Central American street gang as an international criminal organization subject to U.S. government sanctions, the first time this designation was given to such a group.
An example of a tattoo of the gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). The Obama
Photo: Michael Johnson, Associated Press
Members of a MS-13 gang who were arrested in January, 29, 2009, used a shotgun to commit robberies. They were charged with aggravated assault against a beauty saloon located at 2724 Crossview.
Members of a MS-13 gang who were arrested in January,
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The daughter of Claudia Palma, who fled her native Honduras after suffering at the hands of her MS-13-affiliated boyfriend applied for asylum in Houston.
The daughter of Claudia
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Members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang build a greenhouse in Ilopango, El Salvador. The greenhouse, funded by the European Union, is one of many new programs that employs active gang members.
Members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang build a greenhouse in Ilopango,
Photo: Esteban Felix, Associated Press
A family in 2014 walks by a wall covered by a symbol from the Mara Salvatrucha gang in Ilopango, El Salvador. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A family in 2014 walks by a wall
Photo: Esteban Felix, Associated Press
Two members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang are escorted while being transferred to another prison after a clash between rival gangs at the female prison in San Salvador, El Salvador in 2005. (AP Photo/Luis Romero)
Two members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang are escorted while being transferred to another
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14. The “13” included in the gang’s name is thought to derive from the 13th letter of the alphabet, or “M.”
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MS-13 is in a perpetual gang war with Barrio 18. The fighting between both groups has largely contributed to the extreme violence in El Salvador.
MS-13 is in a perpetual gang war with Barrio 18. The fighting between both groups has largely contributed to the extreme violence in El Salvador.
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According to an El Salvadorian public opinion survey, 40 percent of people have “expressed a desire to migrate to another country.” In addition, 84 percent of forced displacements in El Salvador are gang-related, according to a report by the Civil Society Roundtable Against Forced Displacement by Violence and Organized Crime in El Salvador.
According to an El Salvadorian public opinion survey, 40 percent of people have “expressed a desire to migrate to another country.” In
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Houston police are searching for the gunmen responsible for a shooting outside a southwest-side shopping center on Wednesday that sent three young people to the hospital.
The victims, an 11-year-old girl and two boys, believed to be about 15 or 16, were shot about 4 p.m. in the 5800 block of Renwick. They were taken to area hospitals with what Houston police said were non life-threatening injuries. The girl was shot in the arm while the two boys were shot in the foot and the leg.
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The motive remains under investigation, but an officer identified the two boys as gang members. Police have not been able to locate anyone who actually saw what happened.
“There were people who heard gunshots,” said John Cannon, a Houston police spokesman. “They (the investigators) believe more than one suspect fired shots.”
Police were checking whether any security cameras in the vicinity might have captured the shooting.
The shopping center is adjacent to an apartment complex. Although the apartments are surrounded by a fence, there is easy access through a gate.
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A teenager who identified himself only as “Luis” said he knows all three shooting victims and spoke to them. He said they were shot on the grounds of the apartment complex then helped each other get through the gate and onto the shopping center parking lot where they fell. He was later questioned by HPD investigators.
A Houston police officer at the scene said the two teenage boys were “documented” members of the MS-13 street gang. The girl has no known gang involvement, the HPD officer said, and was simply with them when the assailants drove up and opened fire.
MS-13 or Mara Salvatrucha is a transnational criminal gang with most of its members coming from Central America. The gang has a reputation for extreme violence.
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