Posted on 04/16/2017 3:30:05 PM PDT by BBell
Authorities say the victims had suffered significant head trauma and other serious injuries
A teenager visiting New York with family for spring break was among the four young people found brutally killed in a park in a Long Island neighborhood that has for years contended with a growing problem of gang violence.
Jefferson Villalobos was one of the victims found dead in Central Islip Recreation Village Park Wednesday night, his cousin Yensy Fuentes told News 4 Friday. He had been on vacation with his grandmother, and arrived from Pompano, Florida, last Friday, to visit family in Brentwood.
Villabolos, who would have turned 19 next month, had half his face missing, according to Fuentes. He was identified in part by a tattoo he had on his arm. "My uncle, as soon as he saw it, he knew it was him," said Fuentes.
The tattoo was of two hands wrapped around a rosary with the inscription "In God's hands." His cousin Michael Banegas, 20, was another victim. Banegas lived in Brentwood and was from Honduras, Fuentes said. He was suffocated with a plastic bag and his face was unrecognizable.
"I'm trying my hardest to stay strong. I haven't seen him yet, so this is all so unreal to me, and I can't really explain the feeling," Funetes said, taking a deep breath. Their family was at the park Friday to leave flowers and crosses where their bodies were discovered. They wept as they sat on the ground and held each other.
Sixteen-year-old Justin Llivicura of East Patchogue and Jorge Tigre, 18, of Bellport, were identified by police and relatives as the other two victims. Llivicura went to the park with friends on Tuesday but had not been answering his phone since then, relatives said. The family filed a missing person report with police on Wednesday.
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Yeah - "We found the animals who did it, this is how they did it, and no prosecutor would bother pressing charges because it would be messy and inconvenient."
If you can’t get in your car to get milk because you live in the smell canyons of the city and get get parking within driving distance means you live in the man made sewers of the city. I looked up suburbs in my funk and wagnells. Not one mention of milk.....NOT ONE!
The US could bring these gangs under control if they just had the stomach to do so. Fighting these gangs with a fly swatter is not the most productive course. We have crossed the line where common criminals have too many rights and we might offend them
I’m in Alabama. When I want milk, I go outside and squeeze a teat. Goat or cow, that is.
Well......there you go!
Thanks Bush and thanks Obama for allowing this into the USA. Another mess Trump will have to clean up.
As these areas fill up with the Bronze Horde, like the inner-city ghettoes they simply cease functioning. The residents contribute little or nothing in taxes, and they take no ownership or civic pride in anything. The last Americans there will be the government workers, and all over the northeast there is an issue where the current residents simply can’t pay for the retired government workforce (never mind current employees). My town in NJ doesn’t have the gang violence yet, but it is a matter of time; the same dynamic is at work all over the NYC metro area.
I noticed all Mex sounding names. Gang turf warfare or a revenge killing has their MO on it?
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