Muggings Gone Weird!

When I come across a word that has unusual spellings, I have memory tricks that remind me how to spell it. "I" before "E" except after "C" and all that. I remember the spelling for the word in the title by saying "we are weird," because in this case, the "E" comes befors the "I."
The gang in this story must have felt the whole scene going downhill very quickly.
The wrong old folks tour group to mess with...

The American, who is about 70 years old and retired from the military, put the 20-year-old in a head lock and broke his clavicle after the suspect and two other men armed with a knife and gun held up their tour bus, said Luis Hernandez, the police chief of Limon, 80 miles east of San Jose. The suspect, Warner Segura, was later declared dead, apparently from asphyxiation.

Had to invent a new "label for this post." "Weird" will do.