Newark, N.J.
Police this week arrested three more suspects in the recent murders of three college students in a Newark schoolyard. A teenage suspect was arrested in Newark 24 hours after two other young men were apprehended near Washington, D.C.; police said they were on their way to Mexico. “Now the process of healing must take center stage, and the prosecution of the case begins,” said Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Several of the suspects are immigrants, at least one illegal, but police said there was no evidence to back reports that they are members of a notorious Latino gang called MS-13. “The motivation seems to be a robbery,” said Police Director Garry McCarthy. “Whether or not a 15-year-old kid claims he is an MS-13 member, there’s a difference between a gang member and a wannabe.”
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