New York: Criminal gang that reportedly targets gay men accused of killing two people and robbing a dozen others. The gang supposedly haunt Hell’s Kitchen nightclubs where they are suspected of drugging and robbing their victims resulting in two deaths.
Authorities have revealed that the two men that were killed, died under similar circumstances and were murdered 2 blocks apart within the same five weeks. The victims had been seen with three unknown men hours before being killed earlier this year. They were found without their phones and their accounts had been emptied. The preliminary toxicology report indicates that the two victims died from drug overdoses. Authorities claim that evidence points to the victims having been drugged with date-rape type drugs.
Julio Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker from Brooklyn, was found dead in the back of a taxi on the lower east side without his personal belongings. He was last captured on a security camera leaving a gay nightclub at about 3.17 a.m. on April 21. with three unknown men. Ramirez’ accounts had been emptied of more than $20,000 when he was found. 3 weeks later, 33-year-old political consultant, John Umberger, was killed after a night out in Manhattan, the NY Post reports. Footage from a surveillance camera that was near the townhouse where John was staying showed him arriving with three men at around 4 in the morning, and the men leaving without him about 45 minutes later. His body was found four days later with more than $25,000 having been transferred out of his accounts.