James (Jimmy) LaForte, 49, is the 10th and final defendant to plead guilty in the scheme, which saw Gambino mobsters fantasizing about acting like samurai warriors and celebrating with champagne as they used violence and arson to extort their victims.

LaForte, a made man and Gambino soldier, is already serving more than 11 years in Pennsylvania for acting as his brother Joseph’s enforcer in a $400 million fraud scheme, and for beating up an attorney appointed by the courts to investigate the scam. His brother was sentenced to 15½ years last March.

LaForte now faces roughly eight to 10 more years behind bars, based on federal sentencing guidelines, after pleading guilty to racketeering conspiracy, extortion, witness retaliation and other crimes in Brooklyn Federal Court. The court has not yet set a sentencing date.

LaForte’s role in the plot included a bloody scene at Sei Less, at W. 38th St. and Seventh Ave., the same Midtown restaurant that served as the backdrop for the Nov. 16 shooting of New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd.

The posh Asian fusion “speakeasy” is popular with celebrities, including athletes, rappers and former Mayor Adams.

On Feb. 17, 2021, LaForte and another Gambino associate, Vincent “Vinny Slick” Minsquero, approached a man eating at Sei Less with his girlfriend and pals and accused him of being a “rat,” according to the feds.

LaForte hit the man in the face with a bottle, bloodying his nose, and the Gambino duo flipped the table, sending drinks and broken glass flying, according to court filings.

LaForte attacked the man because he was a witness at an official proceeding, and because he gave law enforcement agents information about a federal crime, according to prosecutors.

LaForte also extorted a man who borrowed $50,000 from a mobbed-up loanshark, making the man go into business with him to run an underground poker game and a craps game. When the man asked for his share of the craps proceeds, LaForte responded with screaming and violence, decking the man in the face and giving him a black eye, according to court filings.

LaForte’s criminal past spans two decades and includes prison sentences for fraud, extortion and illegal gambling.

The overall extortion scheme was run by reputed Gambino capo Joseph “Joe Brooklyn” Lanni, who was recently indicted in connection with a separate sprawling plot to use NBA stars to lure big-money poker players to rigged underground card games.

Lanni was sitting nearby at Sei Less when LaForte wrecked the witness’ table.

All 10 suspects indicted in the extortion racket have pleaded guilty since their 2023 indictment. They all await sentencing.

“The prosecution of these members and associates of the Gambino organized crime family has dealt a significant blow to that violent criminal enterprise,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella said Wednesday. “Their efforts to take over and infiltrate legitimate businesses by means of intimidation threatened hardworking New Yorkers and terrorized their victims.”

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew D’Emic on Tuesday reduced molester Nechemya Weberman’s sentence from 103 years to 18, after the 67-year-old moved to have the longer sentence vacated because other defendants convicted of similar crimes get far shorter sentences. Weberman has already served 13 years, leaving him now with five remaining.

“He didn’t just violate my body, He violated my emotional, mental and physical well being as a child,” the victim said.

“This is not just a case about a man who has deeply violated one child. This is the case of an older, grown man who has strategically placed himself into multiple positions of power,” she said. “This is not the kind of case where a judge is showing mercy to an innocent man. This is the kind of case where this man has earned every single moment of his 103 years.”

The victim read from a statement, quietly at first but more forcefully as she continued. She described Weberman’s “smug smile” and his “need for control” as Weberman, who appeared from prison via a remote feed, furrowed his brow and winced when she described specific acts.

The victim said that if he’s released, she believes Weberman will victimize more children, “especially due to the fact that he had and still has community support.”

“He will be welcomed back to his neighborhood and circles. Many people still trust him. He may even resume mentoring children and teens,” she said. “It would be tragic if five years from now, someone else is standing here.”

Weberman’s motion to have his sentence reduced, which was supported by Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, outraged victim advocates.

The 103-year sentence was already reduced to 50 by state law, and Weberman has already served 13 years of his new 18-year sentence. Once he’s free, he’ll be placed on supervised release for 10 years and must register as a sex offender.

But Weberman’s behavior at the hearing may have burned his chance of walking out with a lighter sentence. After he admitted generally to sexual abuse and called himself a “changed man … because I finally faced the truth of what I have done,”  Assistant District Attorney Joseph Alexis started asking more pointed questions.

“What, specifically did you do to the victim?” the prosecutor asked, leading to a long pause.

“I wouldn’t say exactly what I remember,” Weberman responded.

Alexis asked about specific sex acts, including whether he made the victim put her mouth on his penis.

“I never did that,” he said at first, before consulting with his lawyer and changing his response. “Yes, that’s true,” he then said.

Weberman’s vague answers led the prosecutor to say he was going to “pivot away” from his initial plan.

“Quite frankly, judge, had the defendant been forthcoming and direct in his remarks, I was authorized to request 15 years. I am not doing that,” Alexis said, noting that the sentence range in similar cases amounted to 15 to 25 years. “I am leaving it to the discretion of the court,” he said.

The 18-year-sentence handed down left Asher Lovy, who runs Za’akah, an organization that supports survivors of child sexual abuse in the Orthodox community, seething.

“This sends a message to other victims in that community, that not only will the community do anything that it can to protect their abusers, but the DA might also do everything it can to protect the abusers,” he said, accusing Gonzalez of bowing to pressure because of his electoral ambitions.

Lovy, who confronted Gonzalez at the State of the State address, fumed that Weberman’s supporters in the Orthodox community will stay silent if he reoffends.

“Everybody in the community is going to be celebrating his release,” he said.

Gonzalez spokesman Oren Yaniv called Weberman’s crimes “horrific” but said the DA maintains his stance.

“The extreme 103-year sentence in a politicized environment was excessive and unjust, and with today’s proceeding the defendant admitted his guilt, apologized to the victim for his crimes, and the court resentenced him within the normal range for this type of criminal conduct,” he said, adding that Weberman will remain on the sex offender registry for the rest of his life.

The ultra-Orthodox Satmar sect in Williamsburg closed ranks and supported Weberman during the trial, with some members even demeaning the victim.

Weberman, who served as a yeshiva counselor who ostensibly guided young women on their “modesty,” was convicted in 2012 on 59 counts of abuse for the repeated attacks inside his locked office.

The victim testified at trial she was forced to perform oral sex and act out scenes from pornographic movies up to four times a week when she met with Weberman for counseling.

The victim’s lawyer, Sarena Townsend, said she was “heartened” that the prosecution abandoned its request for 15 years, “which would have amounted to time served.”

“Mr. Weberman’s outrageous behavior in court today personified why he remains a danger to society. His repeated denials and refusal to face his actions proved that his assurances of rehabilitation and remorse were lies,” she said.

“My client, brave in her statements today and during trial, has been carrying the burden of putting this man away and keeping him away from continuing his victimization. She is nothing short of a hero.”

Even if he had received 15 years instead of 18, that wouldn’t amount to time served with good behavior because the process of meeting his sex offender registry would have delayed Weberman’s release for several months, according to the DA’s office.

The victim’s husband took to X.com Tuesday, writing, “Today, Nechemya Weberman was resentenced to 18 years in prison. For the first time — in open court, in front of his own children — he finally admitted what the victims have said all along: that the crimes he was convicted of were real. After years of denial, manipulation, and attempts to rewrite history, the truth was finally spoken out loud.”

Theodore “Skinny Teddy” Persico Jr., the nephew of notorious Colombo boss Carmine “The Snake” Persico,” has officially taken the title once held by his late uncle, according to federal prosecutors.

And, he admitted in court Thursday, he violated the terms of his supervised release when he met and chatted with three Colombo members at Ponte Vecchio restaurant in Bay Ridge on Dec. 1.

Persico, 62, was the heir apparent to the crime family in 2023 when he was sentenced to five years behind bars for a labor union extortion plot. The same scheme had helped the feds bust the clan’s leadership two years earlier.

Part of his sentence was steering clear of family associations. At the time, his lawyer told Judge Hector Gonzalez he had “no desire to be boss,” The Messenger reported.

But Assistant U.S. Attorney Devon Lash said at a hearing Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court that Persico has not only failed to move to New Jersey and leave the Colombos behind, but he’s actually running the show.

“Not only has he not done that, he has taken on the mantle of leadership that he claims to have distanced himself from,” Lash told Gonzalez Thursday.

Persico appeared before the judge Thursday after the feds charged him with violating his supervised release shortly after his July 2025 release from federal custody by associating with organized crime figures.

The reputed boss pleaded guilty to two violations, admitting he met one Colombo member outside NYU Langone Hospital on Aug. 29, and speaking to three more at Porto Vecchio on Dec. 1. Both meet-ups were caught on video.

He told the judge that his wife, Nicole, was getting surgery at the hospital when “my friend came to support me, and I shouldn’t have been there with him.”

That “friend” was on a prohibited list from a past case of his, and Persico said that even though he hadn’t gotten the latest list of people to avoid, he “stupidly assumed that maybe he wouldn’t be on it.”

For the second meeting, Persico explained that he was having dinner with his cousin when he saw “two gentlemen that knew for a long time.”

“I went out of my way to talk to them and wish them a Merry Christmas,” he said.

Persico faces a maximum two years behind bars when he’s sentenced Feb. 11, though if the judge sticks to federal guidelines he can expect five to 11 months.

“He does expect some incarceration in this matter as a learning experience,” his lawyer, Joseph Corozzo Jr. said. ‘It is a learning experience, as every one of Mr. Persico’s cases has been a learning experience.”

Lash cast both meetings in a more nefarious light, describing how he left his phone behind while he used his wife’s medical appointment as cover to meet with a fellow gangster.

He understood he was on camera at the restaurant and pretended to ignore the three Colombo members, Lash said, but later, when he headed to the rear of the eatery, “he’s seen hugging and kissing the men that he pretended to ignore,” Lash said.

Unbeknownst to him, that part of the restaurant was also caught on camera, she said.

She also said that the way the men approached him made it clear they were showing deference to the boss of the family.

“He’s had countless learning experiences,” Lash said, pointing out that he’s never successfully finished a term of supervised release, and that he committed technical violations right before committing each new crime in his past cases. “He knows the lessons of associating with prohibited people.”

Persico has a storied career in crime dating back to 1981, when he was 17 years old and was busted for attempted grand larceny on Staten Island. He later spent 17 years behind bars for drug dealing until his release in 2004, and while on a brief furlough for his grandmother’s wake in 1993, he ordered members of his crew to kill Joseph Scopo, a member of a rival Colombo faction.

That earned him another 12 years, and he told his sentencing judge in 2014, “I assure you I’ll do my best not to be here again.”

He was freed on supervised release in May 2020, but quickly broke that pledge, chowing down with his fellow Colombo gangsters at the legendary Brennan and Carr restaurant that November to discuss the crime family’s future, and their labor union shakedown scheme.

Gonzalez ordered him released on home confinement and a $1 million bond, secured by his mother’s nearly $1 million home in Bensonhurst, and he and his wife’s $1.25 million home in the swanky Todt Hill neighborhood of Staten Island.

Lash said the government will move to take both homes if he violates the terms of his release again.

The judge alluded to his past remarks at Persico’s last sentencing, saying, “It’s a waste of breath on my part if he doesn’t do what he’s supposed to do.”

Persico and his wife declined comment as they walked out of the courtroom Thursday.

Following his arrest by ICE agents on Dec. 5, Erron Clarke was subjected to “inhumane and unlawful treatment,” stuffed into a small Central Islip holding cell packed with eight other men, Judge Gary Brown wrote in a scathing memo released Thursday.

Inside the cell, which lacked bedding and was intended to hold only one person briefly, Clarke fought for sleep, crammed on the cell’s filthy floor as lights blared 24 hours a day overhead, according to Brown.

Conditions became rancid inside the cell, which lacked access to showers or hygienic supplies and contained an open toilet, Brown wrote.

The cell was poorly heated, and the detainees suffered as temperatures at night plummeted to 21 degrees, the judge wrote.

Clarke, who is applying for citizenship and had submitted to fingerprinting earlier in the day when ICE agents snatched him, was briefly brought to a Nassau County prison on Dec. 6, where he enjoyed “relatively humane treatment” before he was suddenly thrust back into the fetid Central Islip holding cell on Dec. 9, according to Brown.

In Thursday’s memo, Brown shared the testimony of another detainee, who described a cell like the one in which Clarke was held as being only  6-by-6 feet, and where detainees slept huddled around a toilet that reeked of urine.

At a hearing Dec. 11 — during which Clarke was forced to participate by phone — a judge ordered his immediate release on bail, but ICE held him overnight before releasing him the following day, Brown wrote.

Clarke entered the country legally with a Jamaican passport, but continued to work in the country after his visa expired in 2018, court documents show.

He married a U.S. citizen in 2023 and began the application to become a permanent resident earlier this year, during which he admitted to staying in the country after his visa expired — a violation that is not a criminal offense, Brown noted in Thursday’s memo.

Judge Brown ordered ICE to appear at a Jan. 12 hearing to show why the agency should not be held in contempt and defend accusations that the agency not only defied the court order to release Clarke, but withheld evidence of the abysmal conditions in which he was detained.

Messages seeking comment from the Department of Homeland Security were not immediately returned.

Michael Chkhikvishvili, 22, a citizen of Georgia, ran the Russian and Ukrainian “Maniac Murder Cult” hate group and went by the nickname “Commander Butcher.” He was busted last year for trying to solicit someone who turned out to be an undercover agent into taking part in murder, bombing and arson plots.

On Monday, he pleaded guilty to soliciting violent felonies and distributing bomb-making information. He could get 14 to 17½ years in prison, based on federal guidelines, when he’s sentenced March 9.

The suspect’s group, which goes by the initials MKY, “adheres to a neo-Nazi accelerationist ideology and promotes violence and violent acts against racial minorities, the Jewish community and other groups it deems ‘undesirables,’” according to a criminal complaint.

“I used internet platforms to communicate with another person … to try to persuade him to commit violent hate crimes,” he told Brooklyn Federal Court Magistrate Judge Vera Scanlon. “I distributed information about making bombs over the internet … I acted intentionally and take full responsibility for my actions, and I’d like to apologize to these communities.”

The FBI agent started chatting with Chkhikvishvili last September on encrypted internet channels, after posing as a prospective MKY member, the complaint says.

He described the Santa scheme as “a bigger action than Breivik without getting caught” — believed to be a reference to a reference to Anders Behring Breivik, a neo-Nazi who killed 77 people in a 2011 bombing and mass shooting spree in Norway, the feds say.

He suggested that if the undercover couldn’t pull off the attack on New Year’s Eve, as planned, it could happen on “some Jewish holiday” at “Jewish schools full of kids. … Dead Jewish kids,” according to the complaint.

“The defendant has admitted his vile actions, including recruiting others to commit acts of violence against Jewish and racial minority children. His incitement of hate crimes resulted in real-world violence,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella said Monday.

Prosecutors say he inspired a January 2025 school shooting inside Antioch High School in Nashville, where the attacker posted audio online, claiming he was taking action on behalf of Maniac Murder Cult and at least one other group.

In August 2024, an attacker wearing a tactical vest with Nazi symbols stabbed five people outside of a mosque in Eskisehir, Turkey, distributing a link to the Haters Handbook beforehand. He explicitly referenced Chkhikvishvili in his manifesto, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Chkhikvishvili “engaged in extensive communications over Telegram” with another neo-Nazi leader, Nicholas Welker,  who used to head the Feuerkrieg Division, or FKD. Welker, who went by the nickname “King ov Wrath,” was sentenced to 44 months in prison last year for posting graphic death threats online against a Brooklyn journalist.

The 29-year-old NFL player was shot in the abdomen on W. 38th St. near Seventh Ave. and is now in critical but stable condition at Bellevue Hospital, according to law enforcement sources.

Cops said the shooting happened during a dispute outside Sei Less, an Asian Fusion “speakeasy” popular with celebrities, including athletes, rappers and Mayor Adams.

Surveillance footage seen by cops shows a small group of men and at least one woman get startled and start running, a law enforcement source said. Boyd is among the group that scattered but then drops to the ground, the source said.

Police sources said the dispute started among a group of men outside the restaurant and Boyd was hit by one of two shots fired.

Investigators are still trying to determine if he was the intended target, the sources said.

“We are aware of the situation involving Kris Boyd and will have no further comment at this time,” the NFL said in a statement.

Police have made no arrests.

Boyd joined the Jets this year after signing a $1.6 million one-year contract but never took the field after suffering a season-ending shoulder injury.

Before signing with the Jets, he played with the Minnesota Viking for four years, followed by a year with the Arizona Cardinals and two with Houston Texans.

The 70-year-old Wall Street multimillionaire is being held in the MDC Brooklyn jail after his sex trafficking arrest. His lawyers tried to make the case that he’s a devoted granddad who set up a ball pit for his young progeny in his living room, and would never use his wealth to flee the jurisdiction.

“He is a devoted and loving grandfather who goes above and beyond to create joy for his grandchildren. He dresses up in costumes — like characters from ‘Frozen’ — just to make them smile,” wrote his daughter Annalee Rubin, who submitted 15 photographs of Rubin with his grandchildren in her letter to the court.

“He even turned the living room in his home into a tumbling mat and ball pit play area so the kids would have a special gymlike space to enjoy.”

Prosecutors paint a distinctly different picture.

In his Midtown penthouse, prosecutors say, Rubin built a soundproof “dungeon” with a bondage cross where he’d chain up his victims. Federal prosecutors said his alleged actions during the yearslong scheme, which include beating and raping trafficked women, even after they fell unconscious or used their safe word, put a lie to any claim he’s devoted to his family.

And Assistant U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath said Monday that prosecutors have no way of knowing how much money Rubin has squirreled away in Cayman Island accounts.

Rubin secretly split his time with his wife and the women he trafficked into his Midtown penthouse sex dungeon, prosecutors said, and even joked, in a 2015 email exchange, about sleeping with his alleged accomplice and personal assistant Jennifer Powers on his marital bed.

“By the time we go to the rockettes, dinner and dungeon, it will be 2am — so its easier to tell mary im away rather than come in so late,” he wrote in a Jan. 21, 2015, email to Powers, according to a filing by prosecutors Sunday.

“I probably see 5 girls the week of the 16th!! Except the 16th is holiday and my anniversary!” he wrote in another email to Powers in August 2015.

Rubin’s wife, who has filed for divorce, his daughter and other family members all wrote letters asking for his release on bail.

His wife and brother both agreed to put up their Connecticut homes to secure a $50 million bond, and Rubin agreed to relinquish control of his multimillion-dollar life insurance policy in the Cayman Islands, his lawyer Michael Gilbert said.

Gilbert added that Rubin didn’t try to duck out on a civil trial that covered many of the allegations in the case. “These are lurid, ugly allegations, but he didn’t run away from them,” he said.

McGrath pointed out that prosecutors don’t have a full picture of Rubin’s finances, noting that he didn’t tell his own accountant about the $9 million he gave to Powers and her husband. His life insurance policy tops $22 million, McGrath said, while a second policy for his wife apparently has more than $50 million in it.

“These are very much used as slush funds for this family,” the prosecutor said, arguing that if the judge sets bond, $50 million is too low.

Brooklyn Federal Magistrate Judge James Cho rejected the bail application, but said Rubin could reapply with a different bond package at a later date.

Cho added, “$50 million sounds like a lot of money to a layperson, but it may not be to this defendant or his family.”

The suits brought by Scarlett Pavlovich come after Gaiman, 64, was recently accused in a New York magazine cover story of sexually assaulting, abusing and forcing at least eight women into sex while at the height of his success. 

Gaiman is accused of multiple instances of depraved sexual violence in the Wisconsin suit, including assaulting the former minder of his child near Auckland, New Zealand, where she worked for him and his wife, until she was injured and unconscious. It alleges the attacks were committed with such regularity that Gaiman’s child became aware of them and began calling the nanny “slave.”

In graphic detail, Pavlovich alleges the abuse occurred as recently as February 2022, when the suit describes the author as violently forcing anal sex on her “while smearing her with truffle oil,” and, on another occasion, butter and ordering her to “clean him up.” 

The New York and Massachusetts suits, which only name Gaiman’s estranged wife, artist and author Amanda Palmer, as a defendant, alleges Palmer was aware of her husband’s “need to humiliate his female sexual partners — with or without their consent.”

The Manhattan suit lists human trafficking, conspiracy to commit human trafficking, negligence and related offenses as causes of action. The Wisconsin and Massachusetts suits list the same claims, and assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of extreme emotional distress against Gaiman. 

Lawyers for Pavlovich declined to comment. Efforts to reach Gaiman and Palmer were unsuccessful.

In a statement posted on his website last month, Gaiman said there were things he “could have and should have done so much better,” but that he had “never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone.”

In the wake of the recent blockbuster exposé in Vulture, a site linked to New York magazine, Gaiman was dropped by Dark Horse Comics last week. Several Hollywood adaptations of his stories have been paused since he first faced accusations of sexual abuse. Netflix recently announced that the second season of its “The Sandman” adaptation would be its last.

Multiple women told the outlet that the writer tried to pay them off after the abuse and forced them to sign nondisclosure agreements.

The U.K.-born Gaiman, the author of “The Sandman” graphic novel series and several beloved books, including “American Gods” and “Coraline,” had long been hailed as an ally of progressive causes.

One of his early vignettes in “The Sandman” tells the story of a fictional writer who imprisons and rapes the Greek muse Calliope to draw inspiration for his work. The story was retold in the Netflix adaptation.

Pavlovich was one of two women who accused him of sexual abuse in a podcast by Tortoise Media broadcast in July.

The suits brought by Scarlett Pavlovich come after Gaiman, 64, was recently accused in a New York magazine cover story of sexually assaulting, abusing and forcing at least eight women into sex while at the height of his success. 

Gaiman is accused of multiple instances of depraved sexual violence in the Wisconsin suit, including assaulting the former minder of his child near Auckland, New Zealand, where she worked for him and his wife, until she was injured and unconscious. It alleges the attacks were committed with such regularity that Gaiman’s child became aware of them and began calling the nanny “slave.”

In graphic detail, Pavlovich alleges the abuse occurred as recently as February 2022, when the suit describes the author as violently forcing anal sex on her “while smearing her with truffle oil,” and, on another occasion, butter and ordering her to “clean him up.” 

The New York and Massachusetts suits, which only name Gaiman’s estranged wife, artist and author Amanda Palmer, as a defendant, alleges Palmer was aware of her husband’s “need to humiliate his female sexual partners — with or without their consent.”

The Manhattan suit lists human trafficking, conspiracy to commit human trafficking, negligence and related offenses as causes of action. The Wisconsin and Massachusetts suits list the same claims, and assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of extreme emotional distress against Gaiman. 

Lawyers for Pavlovich declined to comment. Efforts to reach Gaiman and Palmer were unsuccessful.

In a statement posted on his website last month, Gaiman said there were things he “could have and should have done so much better,” but that he had “never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone.”

In the wake of the recent blockbuster exposé in Vulture, a site linked to New York magazine, Gaiman was dropped by Dark Horse Comics last week. Several Hollywood adaptations of his stories have been paused since he first faced accusations of sexual abuse. Netflix recently announced that the second season of its “The Sandman” adaptation would be its last.

Multiple women told the outlet that the writer tried to pay them off after the abuse and forced them to sign nondisclosure agreements.

The U.K.-born Gaiman, the author of “The Sandman” graphic novel series and several beloved books, including “American Gods” and “Coraline,” had long been hailed as an ally of progressive causes.

One of his early vignettes in “The Sandman” tells the story of a fictional writer who imprisons and rapes the Greek muse Calliope to draw inspiration for his work. The story was retold in the Netflix adaptation.

Pavlovich was one of two women who accused him of sexual abuse in a podcast by Tortoise Media broadcast in July.

The explosion of violence outside the Amazura nightclub in Jamaica, Queens might involve gangs — but was not terrorism, NYPD Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera said at a press conference.

At least three gunmen opened fire about 11:15 p.m. Wednesday as about 15 people were waiting outside the club hoping to get in, cops said.

The 10 victims, six females and four males, all in the age range of about 16 to 20, were hospitalized with wounds not considered life-threatening.

Four young men, at least three of whom opened fire with a barrage of over 30 shots, ran off west on 91st St. and got into a light-colored sedan with out-of-state plates, Rivera said. They have not been caught.

“This is not a terrorist attack,” Rivera said at an overnight press conference at the shooting scene.

“There’s zero tolerance for these senseless shootings, these horrible acts of violence on our streets,” he added. “Those responsible for this crime will be apprehended and brought to justice.”

It wasn’t immediately clear if the shooters had been inside Amazura earlier or who they were targeting.

Cops are trying to determine if the shooting was sparked by tensions between rival gangs.

“That’s one of the avenues we’re pursuing but it’s too early to determine right now,” Rivera said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.