Opinion ID: 203446
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Heading: Stonehurst-Wendover Feud

Text: In the early 1990s, Augusto Gus Lopes, his younger brother Nardo Lopes, and Bobby Mendes belonged to a group whose activities centered around Wendover Street in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. In 1995, Nardo Lopes was charged with the murder of Mendes and fled Boston. Gus Lopes, who was in prison at the time of the killing, vowed to eliminate any potential witnesses to his brother's crime and to exact revenge on members of the Wendover group who remained sympathetic to Mendes and who harassed Lopes's relatives. After his release from prison, Gus Lopes became close to Amando Manny Monteiro. Monteiro is the cousin of the defendant here. In 1997, Monteiro introduced Lopes to others who had preexisting antagonisms with the Wendover group. Lopes joined this Stonehurst group, named after Stonehurst Street in the Dorchester -3- neighborhood. Lopes and Monteiro became leaders of the Stonehurst group and led Stonehurst members on numerous missions to hunt down and shoot members of Wendover. Wendover members did the same as to Stonehurst. The Stonehurst-Wendover shootings reached their apex in the period from June 1998 to July 2000.