The sordid events leading up to the brutal 2022 murder of Massachusetts teenager Isaiah Rodriguez in Danby serves as a microcosm of the gang-related violence, drugs, and crimes that came to our community and still lingers in the shadows here in Bennington.
The murder of Isaiah Rodriguez along a darkened dirt road in Danby in the winter of 2022 sheds light on how gangs operate inside Bennington and some of the brazen methods they use to snare vulnerable addicts into a deepening spiral of violence, intimidation, and drug addiction.