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| Gang violence new menace on Pine Ridge |
| By omaha.com |
| Published: 12/14/2009 |
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PINE RIDGE, S.D. — Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his “homeboys” in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang. One 15-year-old member was mauled by rivals. A 17-year-old shot himself; another, on a cocaine binge and firing wildly, was shot by police. One under the influence of alcohol died in a car wreck, and another, a founder of the gang named Gaylord, was stabbed to death at 27. “We all got drunk after Gaylord’s burial, and I started rapping,” said Wilson, who, at 24, is practically a gang elder. “But I teared up and couldn’t finish.” Wilson is one of 5,000 young men from the Oglala Sioux Tribe involved with at least 39 gangs on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The gangs are being blamed for an increase in vandalism, theft and violence, and fear of them is altering the texture of life here and in other parts of American Indian territory. Read More. |
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