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Milaflores Massacre. Coordinates: 42°21′03.8″N 83°03′29.8″W. The Milaflores Massacre is the name given to the shooting of three gangsters in retaliation for two murders and a kidnapping in the winter of 1927 in Detroit, Michigan. The crime was suspected to have been perpetrated by the Purple Gang.
The Detroit Partnership (also known as the Detroit crime family, the Detroit Combination, the Detroit Mafia, the Zerilli crime family ( Italian pronunciation: [dzeˈrilli] ), and the Tocco–Zerilli crime family) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Detroit, Michigan. The family mainly operates in Detroit and the Greater Detroit ...
Among the 32 arrested was a former Atlanta-area police officer who prosecutors say was a hit man for the gang. The indictment alleges that Gangster Disciples members committed 10 murders, 12 attempted murders, 2 robberies, the extortion of rap artists to force the artists to become affiliated with the Gangster Disciples, and fraud resulting in ...
Lt. Ernest Holloway, a state police officer, stops a member of the Black Panther Party armed with a rifle at the entrance to the State Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on May 2, 1967. (Getty Images ...
Osborn High School student Jaiden Mabins, left, shows his 4.0 grade point average to Deonte Morris, right, of Detroit, a member of the 4s, while talking after rival gang members from the 4s and 5s ...
A shooting early Sunday at a Detroit block party left two people dead and 19 others injured, according to authorities. Michigan State Police said no one was in custody and they were assisting ...
The gang was led by brothers Abe, Joe, Raymond, and Izzy Bernstein, [8] who had moved to Detroit from New York City. [9] While in Detroit casino operator Lincoln Fitzgerald was a gambler and he became associated with the Detroit Purple Gang. [10] In 1976 Fitzgerald opened a 16 story casino which he named Fitzgeralds Casino & Hotel. [11]
July 12, 2024 at 10:01 PM. Officials have now identified both people killed in the mass block party shooting last weekend in Detroit. Shanae Fletcher, 20, and Phillip Arnold Jr., 21, both died of ...