Edgar Morales became the first man punished under New York’s anti-terrorism law after a 10-year-old girl was killed in a shooting caused by the gang he was apparently a member of.
Bronx Man First Punished Under Anti-Terrorism Law
Controversy Brews As Mexican Immigrant Gets 40 Years In Gang Shooting
Edgar Morales, 25, was sentenced Monday to at least 40 years behind bars for a Bronx gang attack designated as an act of terrorism. Some say the state is overreaching, but the surviving victims don’t think so.
Morales, a former construction worker, doesn’t belong to Al Qaeda or the Taliban. He was part of a group, according to district attorney Robert T. Johnson, called the St. James Boys — a group of Mexican immigrants who formed a gang that preyed on other Mexican immigrants in the west Bronx.
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