Raymond Lee Washington, the founder of the Crips, member of the Baby Avenues

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Raymond Washington from a 1974 police mug shot

Raymond Lee Washington grew up on 76th Street on the East Side of Los Angeles near Fremont High School and is the founder of what would later be known as the Crips. It was in 1969 when Washington organized several neighborhood kids in a click called the Baby Avenues (aka Avenue Cribs). By late 1971 the Cribs where being referred to as the Crips and their reputation around Los Angeles grew. It was around this time when Washington met Stanley Tookie Williams, who lived on the westside and recruited him into the Crips. In 1999, Alex Alonso published a detailed history on the Crips in Territoriality Among African American Street Gangs in Los Angeles which in 2000 inspired the documentary, Lords of the Mafia (aka Gangsta King) which tells the story of how the Crips formed in Los Angeles.

Raymond Lee Washington was killed on August 9, 1979, five months after Tookie Williams was arrested for quadruple murder. No one was was ever arrested in Washington’s murder.

An article about Raymond Washington was published in issue #5 of Allhood Magazine.

58 comments on “Raymond Lee Washington, the founder of the Crips, member of the Baby Avenues”

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Mount ralph on October 2, 2011 at 12:55 am said:

Tookie did start the west side crips don’t get it twisted, Raymonds work was on the east side, west side till I die !

Territory ? Five Duce Hoova. Affiliation ? None.

I try to love way more than I hate .

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JThompson on January 24, 2012 at 6:51 pm said:

May you all continue to kill your people by the hundreds..bless you all..maybe if we are lucky, you dudes will blast each other out of existence..we, the honest people in LA, can only hope..

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gang on October 15, 2011 at 6:35 am said:

this guy and tookie and all you stupid retard crips mofos ruined the black community. may you all die and burn in hell FOREVER.

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cslip on February 6, 2012 at 9:53 pm said:

judge not yest u b judged urself!we aint as stupid as u think !we rmakin a livin the best way we know how were a fam we police urselves ,govern urselves an take care of urselves an ur fam !!!!!were fathers an mothers justlike u azzholes that talk about us !!!resource more before u open ur mouth an show people just how stupid u really r!!!!!!

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gang on October 15, 2011 at 6:51 am said:

does anyone else see the kind of mentally challenged look this dude’s got goin on? he’s seriously got some neurological disorder, just judging a book by its cover. i just know when you got that low a forehead, it doesn’t bode well for your brain size….. just sayin… personal experience.

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Cuzzo on January 24, 2012 at 8:21 pm said:

It iz what it is get off it and get what they was on one big crip ship kill the set trip!!! C-Establised

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Stock Loc on January 28, 2012 at 5:57 pm said:

Crips aint as stupid as you think we are.

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cslip on February 6, 2012 at 10:06 pm said:

i cant believe so many have a say on somethingthey know nothing about !but then again when ur cybering u can sayanything go on the streetsof cpt and find 1 of us and say this and see if u can talk w/o wires n ur mouth 4 the next 6 to 8 wks!!!!CRIPPIN TILL I DIE AND THEY PLACE A BLUE FLAG ACROSS MY CASKET

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sikEs on February 13, 2012 at 11:00 pm said:

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sikEs on February 13, 2012 at 11:00 pm said:

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sikEs on February 13, 2012 at 11:01 pm said:

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mactt lo on March 21, 2012 at 2:17 pm said:

Rough

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Mr Brookins on April 16, 2012 at 7:47 am said:

Raymond Washington is God and every one know slobs in LA is down to 60 or 50 street gangs and when the 300Crip Gangs Ride out we gona bring all you noggas to hell!!! No more slobs and no more whites,3laccs,mexicans, and spanish people we will begin phase 2 when we kill illuminati and the government!!!

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ANGEL WARRIOR on June 8, 2012 at 4:32 pm said:

WOW!!!! STUPID IS AT A HIGH LEVEL IN THIS neck of da woods……..SO I WILL ONLY SAY…….. COME TO THE LIGHT……GB FOOLS…….IT’S TIME 4A CHANGE……..U WERE CREATED FOR A REASON AND THIS AIN’T IT…….TIME TO TAKE TO THE SKY ON A NATURAL HIGH……LOVIN YOU TIL THE DAY YOU DIE……..PEACE TO ALL YOU GANG BANGIN FOOLS…….YOU STILL GOT TIME TO MAKE IT RIGHT……………..

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