Many residents of NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA) have had to endure long periods of winter with no heat to warm their homes. Apparently, hip-hop rapper Ja Rule was one of the affected NYC residents who joined protests in a plea to the authority to urge them to renovate the public housing complexes’ heating systems. Jeffrey […] More
Two members, including the top leader, of the Detroit branch of the Rollin 60s Crips street gang pleaded guilty Monday to racketeering and firearms charges connected to their roles in gang-related murders, shootings and drug distribution, officials announced. According to the indictment, the Rollin’ 60s Crips is a national street gang founded in Los Angeles, […] More
President Donald Trump and his top immigration enforcers have begun to focus their attention on the deadly MS 13 gang, saying the administration’s hardline immigration policies are focused on stopping its spread in the US. “MS-13, you know about MS-13?” Trump said at a speech before the National Rifle Association Friday in Atlanta. “It’s not […] More
Last week, a Chicago mother watched in horror Thursday afternoon as her two sons were gunned down at a South Shore restaurant. Shots rang out inside Nadia Fish and Chicken, leaving four dead on a day of unbridled mayhem in the Windy City. When the gun smoke cleared by nightfall, seven lay dead following three […] More
Authorities Friday identified a man who was fatally shot in Compton. The shooting was reported about 7:50 p.m. Thursday in the 400 block of North Wilmington Avenue near Brazil Street, according to Deputy Trina Schrader of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Rodney Johnson, 48, of Torrance died at the scene, the coroner’s office reported. Arriving deputies […] More
Two Atlanta gang members are headed to prison for life plus 60 years for robbing a local drug dealer and shooting him to death in front of his 11-year-old daughter, officials say. Andreas Perkins, 20, and Jamal Chandler, 30, were convicted Tuesday of murdering Randy Menefee Jan. 26, 2014, Fulton County District Attorney’s Office spokesman […] More
In Texas, a female shoplifter is verbally and physically assaulted by a gang member after attempting to steal an explicit object from an adult store owned by the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips, a street gang with headquarters in South Los Angeles, California. More
A 29-year-old Venice Shoreline Crips gang member has been arrested and charged with killing a traffic guard at a Venice construction site last summer, due to his past ties to The Avenues, authorities said. The slaying — on a street corner in broad daylight — stunned community members and Ponce’s co-workers. Witnesses described the gunman […] More
Aiming to quell a rash of violence plaguing a South Los Angeles community, police officers raided more than a dozen homes Thursday and seized an array of high-powered rifles, ballistic armor, handguns and more than $50,000 worth of drugs. Fifteen members of the Los Angeles-based Black P. Stones street gang were arrested during the early […] More
Police have arrested several 18th Street gang members for a 1993 apartment building fire that killed 10 people, including seven children, it was announced Saturday. Those arrested remained jailed, Officer Aareon Jefferson said. He had no other details. Police planned to hold a news conference on Monday. The three-story building in the Westlake district caught […] More
Pasadena police blame gang feud between rival gangs: the Pasadena Denver Lanes, Altadena Blocc Crips, Du Roc Crips, among others, for recent homicides in the San Gabriel Valley. Investigators in Pasadena and Pomona believe double homicides committed in each community earlier this month are the result of an escalated gang feud in the San Gabriel […] More
A former gang member saw his prison sentence commuted by then-President Obama in November—only to be killed almost exactly two months later. Demarlon Thomas, 31, was transitioning out of the federal prison system in a Saginaw, Mich., halfway house after having his sentence commuted Nov. 22. Two masked gunmen brandishing assault-style weapons sought out and […] More
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