The incident, however, called attention to threats against the artist's life made in a street gang's videos and posted online in recent months.
Tripi's task force believes the two men seen running from the murder scene were 7th Street Gang leader Efrain "Cheko" Hidalgo and Brandon Jonas.
Even some of those who killed Cardinal Posadas at Guadalajara airport in 1993, in one of Mexico's most puzzling assassinations, bore the tattoos of a Los Angeles street gang.
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Pedro Espinoza, a 19-year-old member of the Hispanic 18th Street Gang, was charged in the killing and could face the death penalty if convicted, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.
Now, or I should say, again, just when you thought it was safe to bottom-fish in the distressed single-family housing market, maybe for a home for you and your family, along comes the Wall Street gang, again.
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So far, unlike the tourist city of Acapulco to the south, Puerto Vallarta, a beach city in the state of Jalisco, has largely avoided the cartel and street gang related violence that is affecting many other pockets of Mexico.
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The most dangerous are the "18th Street" gang (also known as M-18), and their main rival, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).
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But, it could come down to staying with the regulators of Wall Street than the gang that wants to return to libertarian laissez faire.
Early on, the picture offers some fine, flowing scenes of the gang tearing down the street with all the zip and glee of Truffaut kids, and loping and shoving, angular and energetic, across the basketball court.
Sam Lee Chan-sam steals the show as the cocksure Moon, a young street punk on the edge of the gang culture.
Although ARA has certainly spent much of its time on high-profile cases referred by prosecutors, police and customs, it has also worked to tackle street-level criminals - from drug dealers and gang members to sellers of counterfeit goods and benefit cheats, in concert with local authorities.
The UK government recommends that tourists avoid certain parts of Belize City, including George Street and Kraal Road, which have been known to attract gang violence, especially at night.
The girl behind the register warned me to get my car off the street because the police were about to swoop down on the gang of thugs milling around in front of the taco place.
So we're looking for a big gang over here, so we might have to close off the street and have a block party.
It's a long way for the south London-born street artist who started out because he "wanted to be part of that hooded track suit gang thing".
Andrew had been celebrating his cousin's 30th birthday in March 2003 when, in the city's Hanover Street, he bumped into a girl and, despite apologising immediately, was chased by a gang of her friends.
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We have tools to do that, but that doesn't mean sweeping up the kids who are on the street, you know, taking all of the risk being there - put there by the gang leaders to be shot at, to be arrested, to funnel the money to them - those kids are as much victims of the gangs as innocent bystanders are.
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