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Arizona officials are working to curb youth violence after a group of teenagers and young adults became friends in middle and elementary school and evolved into a suburban “hybrid gang” tied to various assaults and, now, a murder.
Seven members of the group are accused of murdering their 16-year-old peer, Preston Lord, on Halloween weekend last year in Queen Creek, Arizona, a wealthy suburb southeast of Phoenix.
Treston Billey, 18, Jacob Meisner, 17, Taylor Sherman, 19, Talan Renner, 17, Dominic Turner, 20, William Owen Hines, 18, and Talyn Vigil, 17, have all been charged in Lord’s murder.
“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 …