Arizona rich kid ‘gang’ accused in teen’s murder started among friends, fueled by social media

Gilbert Goons: Arizona rich kid ‘gang’ accused in teen’s murder started among friends, fueled by social media

After a group of teenagers and young adults formed friends in middle and elementary school and developed into a suburban “hybrid gang” connected to multiple assaults and, most recently, a murder, Arizona officials are attempting to reduce child violence.

Members of the group are charged with killing their 16-year-old peer, Preston Lord, in Queen Creek, Arizona, a posh suburb southeast of Phoenix, over the course of Halloween weekend last year. The following people have been charged with Lord’s murder: Treston Billey, 18, Jacob Meisner, 17, Taylor Sherman, 19, Talan Renner, 17, Dominic Turner, 20, William Owen Hines, 18, and Talyn Vigil, 17.

“How did a group of well-taken-care-of suburban boys — well-connected in the community, some of them who had great grades, played sports, went to church, had everything going from them — how did those boys end up in this hybrid gang?”

Fox News Digital was informed by Billie Tarascio, a Modern Law practitioner headquartered in Gilbert who is not connected to the Gilbert Goons case. “It’s largely, influenced by social media, specifically Snapchat.”