Gun Possession: Immigration

Gay Attack Dept: The reputed ringleader of the street crew was known on his block as a stocky 23-year-old thug with tattoos all over his arms and a pit bull at his side, a marijuana dealer who would hang out on a fire escape and would put teenagers to work selling drugs. He had previous arrests on gun possession and robbery charges and, as a neighbour put it, "looked like trouble.", according to Montreal Gazette. Their lives intersected last weekend in what city officials described on Saturday as the worst anti-gay attack in recent memory. It happened in an abandoned building that neighbours said had been virtually taken over in recent months by youths who used it for wild parties and sex and the most severely brutalized victim was a gay 30-year-old Hispanic immigrant known in his Bronx neighbourhood as "la Reina," Spanish for "the Queen." He was playful, flirty and always ready for a party, neighbours said. At the bodega below the apartment he shared with his brother, he often bought sodas for teenagers. "He acted like he was a big shot," said the neighbour, Michael Perez, 20, of the reputed ringleader, Idelfonso Mendez, 23. "It was just a matter of time." As reported in the news.
@t reputed ringleader, robbery charges