A violence vacuum left after 61 MS-13 members were arrested in 2016 was filled by MS-13 leaders coming up from New York to re-assert the gang on the streets of East Boston and neighboring communities through murders, beatings and the recruiting of local high-school students from Central America, federal prosecutors say. Read more.
Salvador, convicted double murderer, making gang signs, with a gang tattoo. From government sentencing memo.
A federal judge today sentenced Henri "Perverso" Salvador Gutierrez to life in prison for the murders of Luis Fernando Orellana Ruano, 18, at Memorial Stadium in East Boston in December, 2016 and Herson Rivas, 17, in a Lynn park two years later. Read more.
Updated, 10 a.m., 12/25.
Boston Police report finding the body of a male who appeared to be in his older teens with fatal stab wounds at the East Boston Memorial Stadium around 10:45 p.m. on Saturday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
He would be the third teen murdered in East Boston this year and the fifth since September, 2015.
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