nothing much about rap really, just found it funny how the media mentions this
"He said he noticed the teens were loudly playing "Lincoln Park music" on the SUV's stereo. The lyrics, written by local gang members, glorify killing rival gang members. "
heres the article
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050214/news_1m14dejon.html
Hearing on gang slayings continues
Mix of legal issues slows 2 teens' trial
By J. Harry Jones
STAFF WRITER
February 14, 2005
The teenage brothers told police they were on a mission to kill rival gang members.
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One weekend in August, on state Route 163 near Mission Valley and again at a bus stop in the southeastern San Diego neighborhood of Skyline the next night, the 15-and 17-year-old boys delivered two fatal shots from inside a white Ford Expedition, prosecutors say.
Detailed last week in San Diego Superior Court were the deaths of Richard Wilson, 22, who was shot while driving a BMW south along 163 as it crosses underneath Interstate 8, and Lee Smith Jr., 16, who was slain the next night while waiting for a bus with several friends along Meadowbrook Drive.
Dejon Satterwhite, 15, and his brother Edward Eugene Thomas, 17, both of Otay Mesa, are being tried as adults. Should they be convicted of all charges – which include two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder as well as weapons and gang allegations – they could be sentenced to multiple life imprisonment terms.
Their ages preclude prosecutors from seeking the death penalty under California law, Deputy District Attorney Michael Runyon said.
The shootings are being portrayed in court as a continuation of a heated and violent rivalry between two black gangs largely based in Lincoln Park and Skyline. Barely a week goes by in the downtown courthouse where the rivalry isn't being discussed in some way.
A multiple-day court hearing that began Tuesday to determine whether enough evidence exists for the boys to be ordered to stand trial likely won't conclude for several weeks because of unresolved legal issues about statements made by the brothers to police.
Earlier hearing
At an earlier court hearing, Runyon said the boys implicated themselves in the crimes while being interviewed by detectives last summer.
They said they were out "hunting" rival gang members and were on "a mission to kill."
But those interviews have not been discussed during the preliminary hearing because their admissibility is being challenged by defense lawyers who say the boys' confessions were obtained illegally. A separate hearing, probably to be held early next month, will decide those issues, and only then can the preliminary hearing conclude, Runyon said.
The boys say they are associated with the Lincoln Park gang, according to recorded testimony.
In all, the brothers are charged with participating in three drive-by shootings on the nights of Aug. 13 and Aug. 14.
The first happened on Gribble Street in Skyline about 11 p.m. Aug. 13 when one person leaned out of a white Expedition and fired multiple shots at a group of people standing in front of a house. One victim's ankle was shattered then. Witnesses said they saw one person in the SUV flash Lincoln Park gang signs as he passed by.
The next shooting occurred roughly an hour later on state Route 163. Witnesses and victims testified they had been at the Padre Gold nightclub in Linda Vista and had left the parking lot in a three-car caravan.
One victim, who was driving a Ford Mustang, said he saw two "kids" in a white Ford Expedition in the corner of the nightclub's parking lot follow them out.
He said he noticed the teens were loudly playing "Lincoln Park music" on the SUV's stereo. The lyrics, written by local gang members, glorify killing rival gang members.
The caravan, with the Mustang in the rear, a BMW carrying two people in the middle and a black Lexus in the front, traveled south on 163 down the hill toward Mission Valley. At least one documented Skyline gang member was in one of the cars.
The driver of the Mustang testified that suddenly the Expedition SUV drove up next to him on the highway and he heard gunshots. Realizing he had been hit in the arm, he pulled over. Moments later, a passenger in the BMW said he too had heard shots and had seen the rear driver's-side window of the BMW shatter. He said he was shot in the back. Wilson, the driver, was shot in the head and back and collapsed across the car's center console.
The passenger, whose name is not being printed at the request of prosecutors for his own safety, said he grabbed the steering wheel and managed to crash into a median. The passenger survived his wound but Wilson died a short time later.
Neither the passenger in the BMW nor the Mustang's driver could identify the person who fired the shots.
The next shooting
The Aug. 14 shooting occurred about 9:15 p.m.
Lee Smith Jr., a Morse High School junior, was killed when as many as 15 shots were fired from a Ford Expedition at a group of four people sitting at a bus stop on Meadowbrook Drive near Skyline Drive.
A bulletin was soon issued to police to be on the lookout for the Expedition and within minutes a patrol officer spotted it and followed it to a parking lot.
According to testimony, the officer watched as one person bolted from the Expedition. When more officers arrived, three people inside the van were arrested, as was eventually the fourth teen who had run from it carrying a handgun.
At an earlier court hearing, Runyon had said Thomas was the driver and Satterwhite was the teen who had run from the Ford Expedition. That information, however, was obtained from the defendants and has not yet been brought into evidence during the current hearing.
The other two teens arrested that night have not been charged pending further investigation, Runyon said.
"He said he noticed the teens were loudly playing "Lincoln Park music" on the SUV's stereo. The lyrics, written by local gang members, glorify killing rival gang members. "
heres the article
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050214/news_1m14dejon.html
Hearing on gang slayings continues
Mix of legal issues slows 2 teens' trial
By J. Harry Jones
STAFF WRITER
February 14, 2005
The teenage brothers told police they were on a mission to kill rival gang members.
Advertisement
One weekend in August, on state Route 163 near Mission Valley and again at a bus stop in the southeastern San Diego neighborhood of Skyline the next night, the 15-and 17-year-old boys delivered two fatal shots from inside a white Ford Expedition, prosecutors say.
Detailed last week in San Diego Superior Court were the deaths of Richard Wilson, 22, who was shot while driving a BMW south along 163 as it crosses underneath Interstate 8, and Lee Smith Jr., 16, who was slain the next night while waiting for a bus with several friends along Meadowbrook Drive.
Dejon Satterwhite, 15, and his brother Edward Eugene Thomas, 17, both of Otay Mesa, are being tried as adults. Should they be convicted of all charges – which include two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder as well as weapons and gang allegations – they could be sentenced to multiple life imprisonment terms.
Their ages preclude prosecutors from seeking the death penalty under California law, Deputy District Attorney Michael Runyon said.
The shootings are being portrayed in court as a continuation of a heated and violent rivalry between two black gangs largely based in Lincoln Park and Skyline. Barely a week goes by in the downtown courthouse where the rivalry isn't being discussed in some way.
A multiple-day court hearing that began Tuesday to determine whether enough evidence exists for the boys to be ordered to stand trial likely won't conclude for several weeks because of unresolved legal issues about statements made by the brothers to police.
Earlier hearing
At an earlier court hearing, Runyon said the boys implicated themselves in the crimes while being interviewed by detectives last summer.
They said they were out "hunting" rival gang members and were on "a mission to kill."
But those interviews have not been discussed during the preliminary hearing because their admissibility is being challenged by defense lawyers who say the boys' confessions were obtained illegally. A separate hearing, probably to be held early next month, will decide those issues, and only then can the preliminary hearing conclude, Runyon said.
The boys say they are associated with the Lincoln Park gang, according to recorded testimony.
In all, the brothers are charged with participating in three drive-by shootings on the nights of Aug. 13 and Aug. 14.
The first happened on Gribble Street in Skyline about 11 p.m. Aug. 13 when one person leaned out of a white Expedition and fired multiple shots at a group of people standing in front of a house. One victim's ankle was shattered then. Witnesses said they saw one person in the SUV flash Lincoln Park gang signs as he passed by.
The next shooting occurred roughly an hour later on state Route 163. Witnesses and victims testified they had been at the Padre Gold nightclub in Linda Vista and had left the parking lot in a three-car caravan.
One victim, who was driving a Ford Mustang, said he saw two "kids" in a white Ford Expedition in the corner of the nightclub's parking lot follow them out.
He said he noticed the teens were loudly playing "Lincoln Park music" on the SUV's stereo. The lyrics, written by local gang members, glorify killing rival gang members.
The caravan, with the Mustang in the rear, a BMW carrying two people in the middle and a black Lexus in the front, traveled south on 163 down the hill toward Mission Valley. At least one documented Skyline gang member was in one of the cars.
The driver of the Mustang testified that suddenly the Expedition SUV drove up next to him on the highway and he heard gunshots. Realizing he had been hit in the arm, he pulled over. Moments later, a passenger in the BMW said he too had heard shots and had seen the rear driver's-side window of the BMW shatter. He said he was shot in the back. Wilson, the driver, was shot in the head and back and collapsed across the car's center console.
The passenger, whose name is not being printed at the request of prosecutors for his own safety, said he grabbed the steering wheel and managed to crash into a median. The passenger survived his wound but Wilson died a short time later.
Neither the passenger in the BMW nor the Mustang's driver could identify the person who fired the shots.
The next shooting
The Aug. 14 shooting occurred about 9:15 p.m.
Lee Smith Jr., a Morse High School junior, was killed when as many as 15 shots were fired from a Ford Expedition at a group of four people sitting at a bus stop on Meadowbrook Drive near Skyline Drive.
A bulletin was soon issued to police to be on the lookout for the Expedition and within minutes a patrol officer spotted it and followed it to a parking lot.
According to testimony, the officer watched as one person bolted from the Expedition. When more officers arrived, three people inside the van were arrested, as was eventually the fourth teen who had run from it carrying a handgun.
At an earlier court hearing, Runyon had said Thomas was the driver and Satterwhite was the teen who had run from the Ford Expedition. That information, however, was obtained from the defendants and has not yet been brought into evidence during the current hearing.
The other two teens arrested that night have not been charged pending further investigation, Runyon said.