Stumbled across this paper which is really detailed on the history of gangs in Sacramento as well as current events/cases.
Looks like it was done by a college student for an assignment or something. But man, it is really detailed! Kind of interesting. Lots of material to read through. It looks like most of this is public information.
http://csus-dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.9/1140/Hybrid Gangs and the Hyphy Movement- Crossing the Color Line in Sacramento County2.pdf?sequence=1
Answers a lot of questions too. Like on Mozzy's The Truth...
Fuck the Jack Block line:
In a final example of an act of remembering the dead can be seen in the aftermath of the prosecution of Ceron Hill. On March 15th, 2006, Jack “the Smack” Lawrence, a Bad Ass Youngster (BAY) gang member was at Eric’s Donuts, on Mack Road in South Sacramento, with Christopher Stone, another BAY gang member. Ceron “Doodie” Hill approached them and asked Christopher where his brother, Donald Stone, a BAY gang member, was.282 Hill began firing at Lawrence and Christopher, both of whom ran away in an attempt to escape. Lawrence was hit in the upper torso, and pronounced dead in the parking lot by emergency services.
In the case of Lawrence, the media focused on his funeral, stating that the funeral home was “filled to capacity. Youth filled the hallway and the street outside the funeral home.” Furthermore, the article suggests that another killing, near the four-year anniversary of Lawrence’s death, may have been a “revenge” killing.
While Hill was in the custody of Sacramento County Sheriff Deputies at their North Main Jail Facility, pending trial, he was repeatedly attacked, and due to this, during the trial; there were two escort deputies in the courtroom, “for the protection of Mr. Hill,” when normally there is only one.
The need for revenge echoes the sentiments of the gang artifacts. In Jayda’s We Gonna Get You, featuring Lavish D, "
I creep like a beast for revenge, it don’t end I murder everything, pets and kin, I bet you die when we come get you There’s no need to run and hide, we gone find you, We gone get you, I guarantee you gonna die."
While it has been reported that Lawrence’s killing was avenged by another group of Starz gang members, what is even more interesting is the other ways that Lawrence’s fellow gang members have chosen to remember him. There have been rap songs written and produced, and a Youtube video posted that show multiple Starz members at the donut shop where Lawrence was killed, remembering him. In Damn!!! Lavish D, raps, “Aiming at Ceron Hill, putting thirty-two in ya hat for killing little Jack. Niggas out here stay getting whacked.” Lavish D also rapped on the Youtube video, Killin for Jack, “Click, clack, I know some niggas killin for Jack. They killin for Jack.” Starz members also refer to the area they claim, where Lawrence was killed, as the “Jack Block.”
When Curtis got murdered by the Crips:
Defendants Name: Romeo Lamont Brown (Xref 3621913)
Gang: 29th Street Crips vs. G-Mobb/ Valley Hi Pirus
Case Number: 04F05030
Victim's Names: Curtis Allison
Case Summary
On January 8th, 2004 Curtis Allen, a Valley Hi Piru and G-Mobb associate, was riding his gas powered motorized scooter with three friends, Charles Smith, Deandre Watson, and Joshua Butler, on Gigi Place. Romeo “Baby Mad Ball” Brown, a 29th Street Crip gang member, observed Allison, and went into a nearby home to speak with Donald “Big Mad Ball” Norwood376 and informed him of the situation. Brown then exited the home, and shot Allison as he rode the motorized scooter, “in full view of all of his homeboys.” Allison eventually crashed the scooter on a nearby lawn, and as Allison lay bleeding, Brown walked over to Allison and shot him. After the shooting, Brown and Norwood got into a car and “drove away from the area.” At approximately 11:00PM, the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department (SSD) Deputies responded to the call of a shooting at the front yard of 7346 Gigi Place. SSD found Allison lying face up in front yard, with a gas powered motorized scooter near his feet.
Looks like it was done by a college student for an assignment or something. But man, it is really detailed! Kind of interesting. Lots of material to read through. It looks like most of this is public information.
http://csus-dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.9/1140/Hybrid Gangs and the Hyphy Movement- Crossing the Color Line in Sacramento County2.pdf?sequence=1
Answers a lot of questions too. Like on Mozzy's The Truth...
Fuck the Jack Block line:
In a final example of an act of remembering the dead can be seen in the aftermath of the prosecution of Ceron Hill. On March 15th, 2006, Jack “the Smack” Lawrence, a Bad Ass Youngster (BAY) gang member was at Eric’s Donuts, on Mack Road in South Sacramento, with Christopher Stone, another BAY gang member. Ceron “Doodie” Hill approached them and asked Christopher where his brother, Donald Stone, a BAY gang member, was.282 Hill began firing at Lawrence and Christopher, both of whom ran away in an attempt to escape. Lawrence was hit in the upper torso, and pronounced dead in the parking lot by emergency services.
In the case of Lawrence, the media focused on his funeral, stating that the funeral home was “filled to capacity. Youth filled the hallway and the street outside the funeral home.” Furthermore, the article suggests that another killing, near the four-year anniversary of Lawrence’s death, may have been a “revenge” killing.
While Hill was in the custody of Sacramento County Sheriff Deputies at their North Main Jail Facility, pending trial, he was repeatedly attacked, and due to this, during the trial; there were two escort deputies in the courtroom, “for the protection of Mr. Hill,” when normally there is only one.
The need for revenge echoes the sentiments of the gang artifacts. In Jayda’s We Gonna Get You, featuring Lavish D, "
I creep like a beast for revenge, it don’t end I murder everything, pets and kin, I bet you die when we come get you There’s no need to run and hide, we gone find you, We gone get you, I guarantee you gonna die."
While it has been reported that Lawrence’s killing was avenged by another group of Starz gang members, what is even more interesting is the other ways that Lawrence’s fellow gang members have chosen to remember him. There have been rap songs written and produced, and a Youtube video posted that show multiple Starz members at the donut shop where Lawrence was killed, remembering him. In Damn!!! Lavish D, raps, “Aiming at Ceron Hill, putting thirty-two in ya hat for killing little Jack. Niggas out here stay getting whacked.” Lavish D also rapped on the Youtube video, Killin for Jack, “Click, clack, I know some niggas killin for Jack. They killin for Jack.” Starz members also refer to the area they claim, where Lawrence was killed, as the “Jack Block.”
When Curtis got murdered by the Crips:
Defendants Name: Romeo Lamont Brown (Xref 3621913)
Gang: 29th Street Crips vs. G-Mobb/ Valley Hi Pirus
Case Number: 04F05030
Victim's Names: Curtis Allison
Case Summary
On January 8th, 2004 Curtis Allen, a Valley Hi Piru and G-Mobb associate, was riding his gas powered motorized scooter with three friends, Charles Smith, Deandre Watson, and Joshua Butler, on Gigi Place. Romeo “Baby Mad Ball” Brown, a 29th Street Crip gang member, observed Allison, and went into a nearby home to speak with Donald “Big Mad Ball” Norwood376 and informed him of the situation. Brown then exited the home, and shot Allison as he rode the motorized scooter, “in full view of all of his homeboys.” Allison eventually crashed the scooter on a nearby lawn, and as Allison lay bleeding, Brown walked over to Allison and shot him. After the shooting, Brown and Norwood got into a car and “drove away from the area.” At approximately 11:00PM, the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department (SSD) Deputies responded to the call of a shooting at the front yard of 7346 Gigi Place. SSD found Allison lying face up in front yard, with a gas powered motorized scooter near his feet.
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