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Three Suffolk victims linked by ongoing gang violence

Police at scene where a man was stabbed

Photo credit: James Carbone | Police at scene where a man was stabbed multiple times and left for dead on Patton Avenue in Brentwood about 12:45 a.m. (Photo by James Carbone / July 20, 2009)

They lived separate lives and were born in families from three different parts of the world. Last week, Suffolk police said the victims of violence were linked by an ongoing war in which they were mere bystanders. Two were shot, one fatally, by alleged MS-13 members who mistook them for rivals, police said. The third was brutally murdered in Brentwood last week after he apparently claimed membership...

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