Trial for Lynn gang murder proceeds

Trial for Lynn gang murder proceeds: "prosecutor in the murder case against gang member Jose Cabrera said the 20-year-old Lynn man ruthlessly gunned down another city man who was trying to get away from the gang life.

'Tony Pich was a young man who had begun to turn his life around. He was no longer a street kid. He had a job, a car and a wife. Later that night he would be gunned down in front of his home by a single bullet, killing him at age 22. We will prove without certainty that this defendant (Jose Cabrera) killed Tony Pich,' Assistant District Attorney Kristen R. Buxton told the jury in her opening statement Monday at Salem Superior Court.

Buxton told the jury 'what you won't hear ... is a motive for the murder of Tony Pich that will make any sense to you. That is because Tony Pich's murder was a senseless crime, fueled by hostility and hatred between rival gangs and their members and carried out by Jose Cabrera.'

'You will learn that the different groups involved were all on a type of high alert,' Buxton stressed to the jury."

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