Why everyone’s talking about MS-13

Members of the notorious Los Angeles gang are charged with murders

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An MS-13 member
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More than 20 members of the infamous Los Angeles street gang MS-13 have been charged in connection with the murders of at least seven people over the last two years, one of whom was mutilated and dismembered.

A total of 22 people linked to the so-called “Fulton clique”, a faction of the MS-13 gang based in the San Fernando Valley, have been indicted by a grand jury on charges relating to at least 200 criminal acts in several states over a nine-year period, The Daily Beast reports.

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