Gang Violence Blamed for Killings - WSJ.com

Gang Violence Blamed for Two Separate Killings - WSJ.com: "16-year-old boy was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant following a confrontation that started at the party for a female friend who was turning 18, police said. Adonis Santana was an invited guest at the party in a Washington Heights apartment where a group of men, described by a law-enforcement official as members of a gang called the Trinatarios, attempted to enter but were asked to leave, the official said.

One of the men in the uninvited group responded by throwing a drink in the face of the teenager whose birthday it was, prompting Mr. Santana and others to chase them out the apartment building and onto Audubon Avenue, the official said. Once outside, the confrontation turned violent and Mr. Santana was found stabbed three times to the right side of his body near the corner of West 186th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue at about 12:45 a.m., the official said. He was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital but couldn't be saved, police said.

No arrests have been made and police are trying to identify the suspect or suspects who stabbed him, the official said."

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