Fifteen members of a Trenton street gang have been charged for their involvement in murders, attempted murders, shootings, robberies and carjackings in the Garden State’s capital and its surrounding area, the office of New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced on Tuesday. Accordi ng to prosecutors, the “Outsouf” street gang, operated out of South Trenton from Feb. 2023 to June 2025 and committed several violent incidents, including murder, after one of their leader’s, Jhosse Tolentino, was killed on April 9, 2023. The gang referred to committing violent acts as “drills” and were done to avenge Tolentino’s death as well as assert dominance over rival gangs in South Trenton, prosecutors said. Drills typically followed a pattern of members obtaining firearms and then they would use a stolen car or car with swapped out license plates to then shoot “at rivals or other Trenton residents in rival territory; and OutSouf members then took credit for the violence via social media or through a publicized rap video,” prosecutors said. Prosecutors detailed an incident where OutSouf took credit for shooting members of a rival gang member on April 9, 2024, in a rap video. In addition to Trenton, OutSouf members committed crimes in Ewing and Hamilton townships, prosecutors said. Thirteen of the 15 people charged remain in custody and all of them face racketeering and related charges, prosecutors said. ...read more read less