Jorge Potter-Alvarado

In the spring of 2016, the life of 19-year-old Jorge Potter-Alvarado was tragically cut short in Nashville, Tennessee. On April 6, he was found shot to death in a field off Old Hickory Boulevard. His death was not an isolated incident but rather a piece of a larger, more sinister puzzle involving the violent activities of the notorious MS-13 gang in the Nashville area. For years, a local clique of the gang, known as the Thompson Place Los Salvatrucha, had been operating with impunity, engaging i ...