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Original title: Brass knuckles, beatings, fear: Random attacks on teens loom over Preston Lord murder case

I can't even comprehend the level of sickness of society in this part of Arizona to have led to this and I bet the news is gonna be silent on this lynch mob club of rich white teenagers.

Police are not saying much about who beat 16-year-old Preston Lord and left his battered body on the side of a suburban street.

Students at high schools in Gilbert, Queen Creek and San Tan Valley say they know who killed him. Their parents say they know why: Lord's murder was tied to a gang of serial assaulters.

They say he was the latest victim in a string of vicious, blitz-style attacks by a group of affluent teenagers known as the "Gilbert Goons," who cow their targets into silence with threats and intimidation.

The "Goonies," as they sometimes call themselves, have for more than a year carried out random assaults on teenagers in mall parking lots, outside fast-food restaurants, at parks and at house parties, according to interviews, court and police records and social media posts.

read more with same content warnings applying: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/queen-creek/2023/12/14/gilbert-goons-random-attacks-surface-after-preston-lord-murder/71856971007/