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The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN, ALKN, or LKN, also known as simply Latin Kings) is a gang active primarily in the United States as well as internationally. The gang was founded by Puerto Ricans in Chicago, Illinois, in 1954.
I theorize this 1954 legend is linked to the founding of the “Latin Kings” of the South Bronx. As early as February 18, 1955, this “Latin Kings” gang was in the newspaper for shooting and wounding a boy as he left a basketball game.
20 lip 2018 · THE WATCHDOGS: How Latin Kings leader Rudy “Kato” Rangel Jr., memorialized by DMX, at heart of what could be Chicago's biggest gang trial, was killed.
24 lis 2015 · CHICAGO — The second highest-ranking leader nationwide of the Latin Kings street gang was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison after being convicted at trial in 2011 of racketeering conspiracy (RICO) and related charges involving narcotics trafficking and violence that plagued numerous neighborhoods on the city’s north, south and west sides.
2 lip 2021 · Fifty years ago this week — June 27, 1971 — Gustavo Colon, a teen Latin King, shot and killed Glenn Burr, a teen Vice Lord, at the intersection of Potomac Avenue and Leavitt Street. The...
12 sty 2018 · The Latin Kings started out in Chicago in the 1950’s, with the original stated purpose of protecting Puerto Rican immigrants from racial violence and discrimination. Over time, however, the gang morphed into a criminal enterprise.
26 lip 2016 · CHICAGO — Two federal indictments unsealed in Chicago today charged 34 members of the Latin Kings street gang with participating in a criminal organization that assaults and attempts to murder its rivals and violently protects its territories in the city and suburbs.
