{"id":346410,"date":"2026-09-14T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346410\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:46:10","slug":"ex-con-who-did-time-for-child-sex-trafficking-shot-to-death-on-bronx-street-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346410\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-con who did time for child sex trafficking shot to death on Bronx street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An ex-con who <a data-ylk=\"slk:did time;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bronxda.nyc.gov\/downloads\/pdf\/pr\/2020\/40-2020%20Sex-trafficking-ring-9-bloods-indicted-bronx.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">did time<\/a> for child sex trafficking was <a data-ylk=\"slk:shot to death;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/03\/nyc-has-one-of-its-safest-summers-ever-but-subway-assaults-and-hate-crimes-are-up\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">shot to death<\/a> on a Bronx street, police said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Luis Cano, 29, was shot in the chest on Lafayette Ave. near Hunts Point Ave. in Hunts Point about 7:45 p.m. Sunday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Medics rushed him to Lincoln Hospital but he could not be saved. He was about a mile from home when he was shot, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cops recovered a shell casing at the scene but don&#8217;t yet know what sparked the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cano was conditionally released on parole in November 2024 after serving 20 months in state prison. He had been sentenced to up to five years after being convicted of sex trafficking of a child in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cano was among nine members of the Hunts Point Family Bloods who made headlines in 2020 when they were indicted for <a data-ylk=\"slk:pimping girls and young women;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2020\/12\/24\/nine-blood-gang-members-indicted-for-running-nyc-prostitution-ring-sex-worker-tipped-off-police-after-fearing-beatdown\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pimping girls and young women<\/a> out of motels in the Bronx and other parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The gang members preyed on girls and women who were poor and uneducated with few job prospects and forced them into prostitution, authorities said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cano did not stay out of trouble after his release from prison, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was arrested last October in the Bronx for obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest and released without bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And then he was arrested in May in the Bronx for robbery, menacing and gun possession. He was initially ordered held on $200,000 bond but was later granted release without bail, according to public records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was due back in Bronx Criminal Court next month for those two cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ex-con who did time for child sex trafficking was shot to death on a Bronx street, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,39951,4761,9,24,63,7485,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-346410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-child-sex-trafficking","tag-hunts-point","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sex-trafficking","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}