Visit to the Four Corners of Death in Southeast San Diego

By Alex A. Alonso for StreetGangs.Com
March 10, 2010

The corner of Euclid and Imperial in Southeast San Diego is known as the 4 (Four) Corners of Death, so we decided to take a trip to this notorious intersection. Upon our arrival, we witnessed a young man being chased down Imperial avenue by the San Diego Police Department. He was caught and placed under arrest right before our cameras were rolling.

The police in San Diego would not acknowledge that this intersection was known as the 4 Corners of Death. Many people we spoke to in the community have acknowledged that the corner is known by that name because it has a violent reputation, but in recent years crime has dropped in this part of San Diego.

89 Comments for “Visit to the Four Corners of Death in Southeast San Diego”

  1. CrackerJack

    Alex, you should have gone to the catfish place next store to the Green Cat liqour….they have awesome fried catfish…! While you are in SD, check out the bloods in Lincoln Park area. That whole area there at 4 corners is gang-land area. Go down near Memorial Junior High and you will find more…If you want a grand tour, let me know, Email me.

    • menace

      suck a fat nut chick… keeep on thinking that 73 is the ish… all up in their nuts homies jaja
      run up or shut the f up

      • 187 On SE73

        Stop trynna act u guys a gang u foos are just a tagging crew stop trynna act hard u know who controls Varrio SHELLTOWN 38st

      • 18Menso

        Menass got schooled! Man u got a big mouth for a vato that doesn’t know jack about SD. Give it up already! You don’t impress anyone with your claims that taggers and EST run the streets of SD. The complete opposite in the truth. Taggers and EST don’t run jackish in 619. And another thing-you are a myspace banger. all the info you try to drop in the forums is straight from the myspace pages of junior high cholos.

        • menace

          jaja chick please i bet u dont even claim ish… u just talk to talk…. sexsd..bap13 f
          the rexst n u biotch!!

  2. lillalacap

    This is no where near Escondido right?

  3. CrackerJack

    Nah Lill, this about 15 miles south of Escondido. This is off the 94 fwy in San livego city.

  4. flagrant

    4 Corners of death aint no joke, but it aint like it used to be. Funny seeing the cops denying it, they used to deny that we had street gangs in SD.

  5. grimey1905

    Watch 1:56 to 1:59…impala ridin high’ yafeelme thats how we keep it 100

  6. 19051904

    4 CORNERS ROLL CALL!!!!

    NHOOD40S-VARRIO MARKET-ORIENTAL k BOYS to tha NW, LIL AFRIKA-EMERALD HILLS BLOODS-GTCRIP-BLOCCIDE CRIP-VARRIO ENCANTO to tha NE, SAMOA BLOOD-SKYLINE PIRU-OFARRELL BANGSTAS to tha SE, LINCOLN PARK BLOOD-5/9BRIM-SE13LOKOS-VARRIO SHELLTOWN to tha SW

  7. VSExSD13, SHELLTOWN 38ST, LOGAN HEIGHTS13 30TA 33RD RS, SHERMAN 27 GHP 20
    SExBAP13 49ST, MARKET ST, LOMAS 26ST, ENCANTO 69ST, LINCOLN PARK BLOODS,
    NEIGHBORHOOD CRIPS, EMERALD HILLS BLOODS, SExLKS 45TH, FEDERAL BLV .
    SOUTHEAST SANliveGO GANGS f KExSO NALGA CHUPA MECKO .

    • BigMac

      BAP, Calle Federal shouldn’t even be listed. Bunch of rejected taggers!

      • spokexs

        foo bap has dxa x3 already what u talkin about!!!

        • BigMac

          So like I said above..you think wallbanging the X3 makes for a legit varrio? The only work BAP put in is tugging on Logan Nutz. All those fools from chick ASS .PS got rejected from Logan and SE13LKS. So maybe one head from BAP did a couple of years at mule creek and earned HIS X3 picking up a shot callers laundry. Doesn’t mean the rest of those rejects get the right to clam X3.

        • 73 locos

          73 locos por vida f ish,el morro,kagados,cerotes,sxtchexs

  8. tragik

    BIG SOUTH EAST SAN liveGO GANGS. (1). LOGAN HEIGHTS 30 MEMORAIAL PARK ,RS(RED STEPS) CHICANO PARK ,X3 CLAY , AND 33….(2). SHERMAN 20.27 GHP…(3)SHELLTOWN 38 STR.OVP.GBS.(4)MARKET STREET.(5)ENCANTO(6)LOMAS ..BUT I BELIVE LOMAS IS DEAD ALREADY..THIS FIVE ARE THE MAIN CHICANO/HISPANIC VARRIOS IN SOUTHEAST SAN liveGO. BUT SEXSD HAS A LOT OF KLICKS TOO : SEXSDLS,WK,SOK,KP,YM,SFA,TB,LKS,ALS,SEK,CLB,SET,OEK46ST,BAPX3,REK,TNS,RK,MBK,BDK,FBK,UF.UFK.UT,73LS,ETR,NSB, I KNOW THERE IS MORE BUT I CANT REMEMBER..
    THESE ARE KLICKS NOT TAGGERS THEY BANG NOT TAG..IF U ASK ME SOUTHEAST IS THE DEEPEST BUT THE BAD THING WE DONT GET ALONE WITH EACH OTHER!

    • Real SExSD 1608

      ALL THEM SO-CALLED “CLIKAS” ARE A BUNCH OF MIDDLE-SCHOOL TAGGERS, WANNABES, DROP-OUTS AND REJECTS…..THOSE INITIALS ARE ALL TAGGING CREW ID’S…..

      NEVER SAW ONE HIT UP WHERE IT COUNTS.

    • BigMac

      Man…those taggers shouldn’t be up there. Lomas 26th Street is live and kicking. They claim SESD, but they are in Goldin Hill which is really just outside of SESD.
      Main SE Sur roll call:
      Sherman (20, 27, GHP)
      VLogan Heights (13LS,13LS CBS, RSLS, RSLS CPB, 30, 30MPB, 33)
      VMarket Street (45)
      VShelltown (38,38OVP, 38DEBS, GBS)
      VEncanto 69 Locos
      Lomas 26
      Lomita Village70’s
      Paradise Hills Locos
      Southeast Lokos
      Southeast San livego 13
      Mountain View 73 Locos

      • k eachn other, and make my day.

      • MENACE

        73 IS NOT A VARRIO, N LKS EIGTHER

        • BigMac

          your a fake ass fool what do you know about San livego hoods? 73 may be taggers but they put work in and have territory

          SEX3LKS have territory too menso.

        • spokexs

          i never said they didnt have territory every click has a territory! u dum f i said there are clicks not varrios

        • menace

          73 dont have the 13 foo u fin smart they are green light in the pinta!!
          thats why they dont say 73 when they get locked they say sexsd. n whats the point of
          having a territory if u dont kickit there. they r scare of coming out to dxa park..
          all u see is foos from shell town posted on ov and mountain view park!! i say
          it cus i go thru there olmost every day…. if u ask me 38 st is the hardest barrio in
          southeast san livego it used to be logan but not no mores.. logan started loseing
          respect from other varrios cus logan let other clicks kickit in their hood but at the
          same time logan started to get dipper..
          ….u dont see 73 hit up any
          where just in their zone.. when was the last time u heard 73 puttinit work.. i never
          heard of 73 gettin sherman back cus they k downer.. never homeboy…

          bap 49 st who varrio controls the ish tell me.. tns 50 st ..even federal even tho is in
          keso … 4×6 st .. sfa 29st .. kn orange street.. lks imperial 45…

          fin chesse burger get ur ish straight

        • MENANUS

          And quit droppin names you snitch ass mf—-
          You were all over 73 nutz a little while ago in the forums saying the opposite…that ST was lame and 73 puts in all the work. get you fake game straight at least!

        • MENANUS

          HAHAAH Menace the fake ass fool is back! You don’t kno ish except for stuff you get off of myspace pages!

        • BigMac

          Ahhh now tour all butt hurt! So youre a fake ass! First you claim your Menace-now your spokes.

          73 bangs harder than most of the varrios you might want to compare them to do. They pushed ST out of turf and now control a whole area of SESD. Thats why they hitup MOUNTAIN VIEW 73 LS now. They stepped up to bat. Not like all those 1000 other weenie taggers in SE who just claim the whole side of SE. All those other taggers in the Mountain View area fear ST and SEX3LKS except for 73LS. All those taggers talk masa, but don’t back it up in the calles. 73 talks the talk and walks the walk.The reason you call them a klicka is because you probably got beef with them. Just like ST, MKT, SM…call them a klicka just to talk masa. But they all know that 73 is legit. Just ask fools from ST about all the heads they lost from beffin with 73 (many). Then ask then about heads they lost from OEK//KN/WK/KP/ALS(maybe one).

          No one has been able to take that hood (neighborhood, AKA varrio) back from 73 . And since when did 73 stand up on a mic and say “we are not a gang…we are taggers”. Homie 73 is as gangster as you can get. More so that lames from OTSD, Poway, VNP, Mira Mesa….

          Funny thing is 73 don’t hitup X3..but they earned the right to, more than a bunch of other gangs in SD. But they do hit up VMV73LS sometimes. So we all should just not consider the a varrio because you don’t. OK.

          And SEX3LKS is a varrio straight and simple. Maybe your confusing them with those lames called SESDX3. LKS got 20 years in as a gang-not as tagbangers. They never were a tagging crew. Check your history on that. They may be new relative to what you and me think but not as new as all those varrios popping up in north and east county. LKS has a well defined hood too.

          In my opinion: Claiming a well defined hood+putting real work in (not wallbanging)=varrio.

          Your opinion of a varrio: wallbanging the X3

          B.T.W. not all klickas have turf. I don’t call claiming all of SE or SS, or claiming dead end streets when you don’t live there holding turf. Give me one good example of a klicka that legitimately holds turf. When klickas begn legitimatley holding turf-they turn into varrios. Like MV73LS did! Funny… OE,BAP, PBZ, TNS, WK, SOK ,KN,KP,CM, SET, MBK, CLB, JBK all claim streets, but they are streets that are legitimately controlled by varrios. And thos taggers all bow down to the varrios that control those hoods. See the difference meso? 73 doesn’t bow down to ST, SM, MKT. They do their own thing in their own varrio. Reminds me of Calle 32 SKA.

        • big drifts

          To the homie sucking 73’s d#$k just to let u know those homies are green lighted in the county and most pc up or claim resident no matter how u cut their no good homie. real talk active N bangin since 95.

        • SEXTKS

          The key here is 73 is greenlighted in COUNTY-not the pen. They were green lighted by a varrio they didn’t get along with-not the big dogs. Why were 73 listed??? Because they put a lot of heads from that varrio to sleep. And 73-they took control of part of that varrios hood. Thats why they are on luz. One varrio put them on luz. 73 ain’t no joke-they made that varrio look like chumps. Taggers straight out came in and stole part of a varrios hood! And they still post in that area! You don’t get the light for being wanksters. 73 handles buisness. They may not have gotten the blessing for X3-but they gaet down more than some of the other hoods that claim X3. Now thats real talk.

        • real sd

          LOOK OUT FOR THAT BC CREW COMIN UP BROUGHT IT FROM NEW MEXICO WE BE GETTING UP LOOK OUT FOR THAT “BURNIN CHUMPS” ALL DAY NOT TAGBANGIN WE JUST LOVE THE SPORT

        • VExPExACHE

          NO MAMES.

      • menace

        taggers? in southeast theres no taggin krues foo

  9. BigMac

    Top SD X3 gangs:
    Sidro,Otay 13,Del Sol,Imperial 13,Nestor 19,West Side Lokos,VChula Vista,Iris Avenue,Old Town National City,Acre Boys,Block Boys,NC Locos,NC Mob,Varrio Logan Heights, Varrio Shelltown,Sherman, VMarket ST,VEncanto, Lomas 26, Paradise Hills LS,Lomita Village 70,SELokos,Linda Vista 13,East San livego 13,City Heights Juniors, Woptown, Vista Homeboys,Esco Diablos, Center Street Locos,Varrio Pozole,Varrio Mesa LS,Encinitas Flats,Varrio San Marcos

    Wanksters:
    Southeast San livego 13,South San livego 13,Fifth Block, Calle Federal, Brandywine LS,Mission Bay LS, Varrio Clairemont 13,Old town San livego 13,Clarence Street LS,Picador BLVD LS,Palm City Familia Hispania,all SESD, ESSD, WSSD, and SBSD taggers,Valley Center,South Los,Carnales 13,Esco West Side Gang,Esco East Side Gang,Esco Boys,Thunder Hills,Eden Gardens 13,Fallbrook LS,Mid Valley 13, Ramona Town LS,Lemon Grove LS, Spring Valley LS, Aztec Nation LS, North Park LS, Hispanic Kartel, San Marcos Brown Pride,Mira Mesa 13,Penasquitos LS, Carlos Malo,Varrio Poway,all El Cajon gangs.

    Too many wanksters in SD!

    • AN LOCOTE

      ME VALE VERGA LO QUE TU PIENSES HIJO DE TU PUTA MADRE!!! NO TE PARES PA MI VARRIO O TE VA CARGAR LA VERGA!!! PURO VARRIO NACION AZTECA PUTO!!! ANLS GANG!!!

    • NuttySDC20'sCRIP

      cuzz u named all the buster gangs as the real 1s and all the real 1s as the fake 1’s somebody needs to beat your ass homeboy

    • real sd

      U NAMED OFF ALL THE MEXICAN GANGS LIKE A SUM MUTHAI dont likeA COME TO DAYGO ANDDSEE WHATCCIN

  10. SOUTHEAST SANliveGO f KEXSO,

  11. VMLS 13

    BIG ASS V-MARKET -ST

  12. Gangs are gay

    Didn’t know so many “Gangsters” had an internet connection.

    Only one thing is for certain, none of the mo-ther-f-ers in the gangs anyone listed has a future. They’ll never contribute to society. Period.

  13. 4cownas

    Thers a newz story bout dis! go to-http://www.sanlivego6.com/mediacenter/local.aspx

    and click on Corner of Death in the left window were it sayz TOP STORY

  14. Charro

    I noticed that the Starbucks that was at the 4 corners of meth didn’t last long. What were they thinking? That Gang Bangers would forsake their crack for a tall latte? Can’t you just see the bangers hanging outside of the Starbucks sipping on their Iced Tea and talking about who they gonna smoke next?

    • Charro-go to the hood more

      im pretty sure starbucks is still there (i live in LA now, but i still go back like once or twice a month) and i know for a fact that food 4 less, magnolia’s, and L&L hawaiian are still there. if the starbucks did close, it’s because a whole lot of starbucks stores are closing, the company over-expanded over the past couple years and had to shut down alot of their stores. your ignorance is astounding, gang activity exists in southeast san livego, but it is not like everyone there is a gang banger. probably less than 5% are. and crack is not that big of a problem anymore, it is pretty hard to come by in san livego.

      • PJ

        Yup, that Starbucks is still there – I was just over there, a couple weeks ago – it’s August 2015… They still bangin’ over there, too.

    • nancy

      I’ve lived near this corner for a couple years and there has not been a Starbucks located
      there during that time. However, there is a Starbucks located a few blocks north @ Euclid
      and Naranja. People are sitting outside the Starbucks enjoying their tall Lattes and Iced
      Tea and each others company on most days.

    • HEFTY

      THATS RITE THE FOUR CONORS HOMIE I GOT MY PBOYZ LIVIN RITE THERE ON EUCLID ..
      VSE43RDPARTYBOYZX3GANG
      f GUMMYBEARS
      ishOWN,LOKAS,QUESO
      NO PAL SWATMEAT..
      SO f WHAT U HATERS SAY VPBZX3 GANG!!

      • Real SExSD 1608

        VPBZ? what is that ish?
        Never heard of you.

        73? Only see that ish hit-up around La Mesa…….far from the 1905. Never seen it thrown up where it matters.

        BIG BAD VE-PE-ACHE CALLE REO LKTS.
        PARXSIDE-65st WINOZ.

      • big drifts

        PBS HELL NAH STRAIGHT TAG BANGERS WHO BLESSED U N homeboy go join a real gang ese muthafas like u hit the system and claim southeast resident what thats ish about kno damn right u taggers will get checked quik . from a real g big drifts LH30 REPPIN THE X3 w\ the right to do so.

      • toca

        what is PBZ? Never hood of that.43 is puro Shelltown Gamma.

  15. Mama Me El Hueso

    Los locotes de Velencia controlla, putos! Ven a mi cama para ver me desnudo!

  16. Classic tales! LITTLE RED riding HOOD

  17. NutcaseLowcoSDC

    all u Bs shut the f up

  18. El Mamon Jamon

    El Mamon here…Big bad Varrio Hillcrest controla mis huevos y culo…damelo!!!

  19. 1905SDP509xS.Dawg

    Samahang Dugong Pinoy abbreviated SDP, is a Filipino gang. Starting in the 1990s in the Southern California area, the group has expanded to other areas of California. The gang is known to have chapters (or at least a couple of members) in San Francisco, Oakland, San livego, Escondido, Riverside, Washington and Nevada. These chapters, as they are called, are created when a member’s parents relocate their child to a different city in an attempt to “move” their son(s) away from trouble. Members are known to have committed crimes such as shootings, shoplifting, underage drinking, drive-by’s, heavenly armed, and very dangerous. Rival gangs include Asian Boyz(ABZ), WashKlan Family Crips(WKFC), Asian Crips(AC), Tiny Oriental Crips(TOC), State Side Islanders(SSI)
    “f YO SET BLOOD THIS SDP OR NOTHING !”

  20. PURO BIG BAD ASS SOUTHSIDE SOLliveRS CLICA f KLOWNS f AVENA JUST f ANY chick ASS HATTER

  21. SherMan 20 st ls 27 st lokos gang f leche jocks crazy ass SheMan gang

    • V30TA

      HAHAHA Swapmetero! You called your selves Sheman! Thats your new diss now! f SHEMEN! CALLE 30 always on top!!! Big bad Logan Heights!

  22. PSYCHO

    AZTEC NATION LOCOS GANG

  23. demonio

    crazy ass mountain view 73 locos

  24. Cisko

    BIG VE-PE-ACHE REO SIDE
    X6V3 65ST PARKSIDE WINOZ
    CONTROLLIN’ THE SE……WE GET YOUR HYNA SPARKED
    BUNCHA FAKE ASS FOOLS WANNA JUMP ON THE SOUTHEAST BANDWAGON…..EVERYBODY KNOWS WHO THE REAL GANGS ARE AND WHERE THEY DWELL…..JUST CAUSE YOU SAY SOUTHEAST DON’T MEAN IT’S TRUE……ALL THEM CATS LIVE OVER IN CHEESESIDE ANYWAYS.
    FAKERS LIKE THEM NEVER STEP TO PARADISE HILLS…….OR ANY OTHER SPOT WHERE SOUTHEAST G’S ROAM.

  25. Cisko

    You ain’t real Southeast…..you fools are in Cheeseside.
    Damn, you just admitted that you bow-down to them other varrios.
    No mames.
    GRANDE VARRIO PExACHE 65th ST/REO-SIDE WINOS GANG.

  26. lazy

    SExBAPx3LS 49STREET!! LAZYBOY

  27. PNUT LOCO

    The real varrios than run the game-
    VShelltown
    VLogan Heights
    NC Block Boys
    OTAY
    Lomas26
    VSherman
    VChula Vista
    Del Sol
    OTNC
    Sidro
    Lomita70
    VPosole

    • Beany

      Always on top =

      LOGAN-SHELLTOWN-OTNC-OTAY-SIDRO

      Those varrios run everything in south county!

      Up in north county its =

      POSOLE and ESCO DIABLOS

  28. LARANA

    MAN ALL THE MEXICANS RUN THAT AREA NOW! WAT UP TO MY HOMEBOYS FROM VARRIO ENCANTO

    LA RANA X3 MR SHOTTY

  29. ExSEx JUNBUG

    SOUTHCHExExS SAN livexGO I LIVE IN THAT ARExA AAN WExx RUNNING THAT ish… CLOWNS CONTROLAN

  30. VExPExACHE Cisko

    Cheese side Longass got run out of SD by my older homeboys a long time ago…………and u know that ish is true.

  31. 73 locos

    73 locos por vida in sexsd

  32. 73 locos

    f sXtcheXs lover pinches mocoso

  33. 73 locos

    f all sXt and lovers fen trampas

  34. 73 locos

    Siete tres Vista AlA Montaña locos

  35. Lmao

    You’re all so tough post your nouns and explicit phrases in capslock. Maybe you wouldn’t all be k-ingg each other if you’d learn to communicate like the rest of the evolved holo sapiens and left your hood once in a while. In the meantime, I look forward to watching your cameos on MSNBC’s Lockup.

  36. Stylo

    Everyone know the four corners belong to 2 Gangs only TNS 50 street Gang and Lincon Park Gang Everyone else always gets smash when they rool that way.

  37. ThaNightShift

    VarrioTNS. That mutha fing night shift putting it down on suckazz, that 50 blockero rifando, klak klak! Free the homies!
    VTNS50BLOCKTNSVTNS50BLOCKTNSVTNS50BLOCKTNSVTNS50BLOCKTNS

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