Stretch from Fruit Town Brims talking about the hood, being Belizean and his rivals Posted: April 26, 2013 Related stories: Fruit Town Brim member, No Good 3, on neighborhood rivalries and death Baby No Good explains the… Baby No Good from Fruit Town Brim talking about the neighborhood Baby No Good is from… VIDEO: Fruit [...]
Back in 1972, Bobby Lavender led a group that created a gang called the 92 Bishops off of 92nd and Bandera Streets after a person named Skip was shot and killed by a member of the East Side Crips, Raymond Washington’s gang. In 1973, Lavender and other gang leaders went to San Diego to create [...]
Los Angeles – Jamiel Shaw Sr. speaks to the media after the death sentence of Pedro Espinoza, the 18th Street gang member convicted of killing his son, Jamiel Shaw Jr. Date: November 2, 2012 Posted: April 1, 2013 Edited by: Rafael Gamboa Location: Downtown Los Angeles, Criminal Courts Building Related stories: Pedro Espinoza is sentenced [...]
In 2008, Pedro Espinoza, 19, shot and killed Jamiel Shaw, 17, during a chance encounter on 5th Avenue where Shaw lived. Espinoza had saw Shaw walking on 23rd Street and noticed him to be a Blood gang member, a rival to the gang Espinoza was from, 18th Street. After an exchange of words, Espinoza shot [...]
Baby No Good is from the Fruit Town Brims, a street gang in South Los Angeles located west of the University of Southern California. He talks about his life in the gang, his family, how hard his mom work, and the absence of his father in his life. Post date: March 12, 2013 Interview Date: [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer February 21, 2013 | 6:37 p.m. PST Aqeela Sherrills, from RHD California, organized the commemoration of the Watts Community gang truce and cease fire of 1992 among several gangs in the Imperial Courts, Nickerson Gardens, Jordan Downs, and Hacienda Village housing projects. The Bounty Hunter Bloods, Grape Street Crips, PJ Watts Crips, [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer February 15, 2013 | 7:21 p.m. PST Kershaun “Lil Monster” Scott who grew up in the neighborhood that was the flashpoint of the Los Angeles Civil unrest in 1992 came out to commemorate 20 years later. According to him, not much as changed over the years. This neighborhood is claimed by the [...]
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East Side 40s Piru were a predominately African-American Blood street gang located on the eastside of South Los Angeles. A newer generation of Bloods from the same neighborhood started claiming All For Crime Bloods in the early 2000s, and the 40s Piru identity has slowly disappeared. Related stories: 52 Pueblo Bishop Bloods – East Side [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer November 9, 2012 | 2:09 a.m. Last Friday, Judge Ronald Rose upheld the jury’s sentence of death against Pedro “Darky” Espinoza who was convicted in the 2008 first degree murder of Jamiel Shaw. Many observers who had been watching this trial anticipated that this sentence was inevitable because of [...]
Los Angeles Police Department officer suggests dropping off Avalon Gardens Crip member in enemy Blood turf back in 1988. Eventually he arrests the Locke High School student for vandalism in the Avalon Gardens housing projects on Avalon and 88th Place in 1988. Related stories: Rapper Jay Rock talks about living in the Nickerson Gardens, Watts [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer September 21, 2012 | 8:01 p.m. During the 1980s, the California Department of Corrections allowed African-American gang members to wear their gang colors. Salinas Valley State Prison, also known as Soledad Prison, during the late 1980s was known as a Blood friendly prison allowing them to wear red. Many [...]
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