A gathering of Venezuelan migrants spiraled out of control this week as gunshots rang out in the parking lot of a suburban Colorado town.
In yet another sign of trouble inside the Venezuelan community living in the US, chaos unleashed by migrants living in Aurora, Colorado has surfaced in a TikTok video.
‘Those Venezuelans is taking over,’ a man can be heard saying in an online video posted to TikTok by user 100packsavvy.
The July 29 footage shows bedlam in a Target parking lot in Aurora where Venezuelans had gathered in a weekend demonstration over the elections in their homeland.
While mostly peaceful, South American swarmed the shopping center, completely taking it over, with cars sardined, bumper-to-bumper.
A trashed parking lot was left behind after the gathering by Venezuelan migrants in July
This forced Target and other retailers in the area to close early, fearing their customers might get caught up in the demonstrations, according to Telemundo Denver.
As night fell, the trashed parking lot littered with garbage turned from disgusting to dangerous.
Police responded to several incidents, including gun shots being fired, the Spanish-speaking outlet reported.
The TikTok users who made recorded the video claimed he and his companions were almost run over.
‘We almost just got hit,’ one man says.
The incident is latest video from the Venezuelan community, which has come under scrutiny, in Aurora.
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Then other members of the gang rush up the stairwell, bearing weapons. In the background, the men can be heard speaking in Spanish to one another
Just hours ago, security video showed suspected gang members who have allegedly taken over an apartment complex in town.
Gun-totting men can be seen storming through the building in the video that emerged on Wednesday.
A man in a hoodie lugs a high-powered rifle and pounds on a door in the building, while several others wield pistols.
The couple who filmed the footage told local station Fox 31 that it was recorded shortly before a shootout at the complex, which left one person grievously wounded. In the exchange of gunfire, several vehicles were also damaged.
‘A GANG HAS TAKEN OVER several apartment complexes in Aurora!’ local council member Danielle Jurinsky wrote on Twitter.
Local police stopped short of linking the thugs to the infamous Tren de Aragua, (known as TDA) but council member Jurinksy told Fox 31 that the building had been overrun by a Venezuelan gang.
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Venezuela’s most violent gang Tren de Aragua has moved its headquarters to just across the US border in the Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez
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Tren de Aragua gang tattoos (pictured above) were part of a Department of Homeland Security bulletin that was recently shared with federal agents
‘This isn’t just Americans. Other Venezuelans are being extorted by this gang,” Jurinsky said.
The footage comes as the migrant crisis under the Biden Administration has moved away from the US-Mexico border and into America’s cities.
The Venezuelan mob has established footholds across the country, including New York, Colorado and Texas.
The Dallas Police Department has exclusively confirmed the presence of the gang in North Texas to the DailyMail.com
In the Denver area, police from across the region have formed a task force to deal with the criminal organization in the Rookies.
As DailyMail.com exclusively reported, TDA has set up a new headquarters at the doorstep of the US, in Juarez, Mexico.
The city is directly across from El Paso, Texas.
Officials in Texas’s sixth largest city are working on a confidential plan to combat the gang’s threat.
![Last month, the US government designated Tren de Aragua a transnational criminal organization and announced a $5 million reward for the capture of its leader, Hector 'El Nino' Guerrero Flores](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/08/29/18/88054143-13793333-Last_month_the_US_government_designated_Tren_de_Aragua_a_transna-a-8_1724952634529.jpg)
Last month, the US government designated Tren de Aragua a transnational criminal organization and announced a $5 million reward for the capture of its leader, Hector ‘El Nino’ Guerrero Flores
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Cindy and Edward Romero moved out of the apartment on Wednesday due to safety concerns.
‘It’s been a nightmare, and I can’t wait to get out of here,’ Cindy Romero told Fox as she packed up her possessions.
In their apartment, the Romeros had an elaborate system of locks running from the top of the door to the bottom.
‘Every day when we come home, we have to do this every time we go outside to take out the garbage,’ Cindy Romero said, demonstrating how the locks worked.
‘Every time we go to bed at night. We have to keep like this so that nobody can kick in the door,’ she added.