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A Security Threat Group, or STG, is a group of 3 or more inmates who engage in activity that poses a threat to the safety of other inmates or prison staff. Punishments for forming an STG is solitary confinement, loss of privileges, parole delays, etc.

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- African American
- Formed in South Central L.A. in the 1960's.
Allies: Black Guerilla Family, La Nuestra Familia
Rivals: Bloods, Vice Lords, Aryan Brotherhood.
Symbols: Color Blue, Blue bandanna, BK Knight tennis shoes to represent 'blood killas."

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- African American
- Formed in South Central L.A. in the 1960's to defend against Crips.
Allies: La Nuestra Familia
Rivals: Crips, Aryan Brotherhood
Symbols: Color Red, red bandanna, crossed out 'C', 'blood' hand signal.

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- African American
- Founded in he 60's by incarcerated Black Panthers.
Allies: La Nuestra Familia
Rivals: Aryan Brotherhood
Symbols: Crossed Sabers, machetes, rifles, black dragon, etc.

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- White
- Formed in San Quentin State Prison in 1967.
Allies: Mexican Mafia
Rivals: Black Guerilla Family
Symbols: Swastika, '666', SS Lightning Bolts, etc.

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Four days after Tommy kills Stanford Bursey the rival gang members retaliate by killing his 15 year old brother and his mother. 

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Four days after Tommy kills Stanford Bursey the rival gang members retaliate by killing his 15 year old brother and his mother. 

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On September 15, 1985 Tommy was arrested.

Tommy has since realized that belonging to a gang was not the life he thought it would be and being in prison changed who he was.

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In 1985, at the age of 19 he shoots and kills a rival gang member (Stanford Bursey) five times outside a liquor store for a comment he found offensive.  Stanford associated him with the rollin' 60 gang, which were known as Bloods. The 8 Tray gang are crips.

Tommy gets off the streets because he fears retaliation.

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A 16-year-old boy who wanted to improve his life by becoming an actor was killed with his mother in their South-Central Los Angeles home when two gunmen came to retaliate for a weekend slaying they believed was done by his brother, police said Thursday.

Detectives at 77th Street Division said they do not think the intruders meant to kill David Ross and Bessie Mae Ross, 54, in the house at 1351 W. 51st St. late Wednesday night.

But Mrs. Ross answered a knock at the door and was shot as the pair opened fire. She died at a nearby hospital. Her son, who was standing behind her in the living room, was killed on the spot.

After consulting with the South Bureau Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) anti-gang unit, Detective Paul Mize said that the killings appeared to have been done by members of a gang who wanted to murder another Ross son, Tommy, 19.

The "word on the street," Mize said, was that Tommy was suspected of being the gunman who last Saturday killed Stanford Bursey, 24, in a liquor store parking lot at 1355 W. Florence Ave.

Tommy Ross was not at home about 10 p.m. Wednesday when the presumed avenging members of a rival gang showed up. Nor did police know where he was Thursday.

"I think he's worried about retaliation," Mize said. "We just want to stop this thing before it becomes a war," the detective added.

The dead boy's father, Robert Ross, 71, a retired minister and barber, was attending church Wednesday night. Another son, Leamon, 25, reportedly was out of the room when the shooting occurred.

Boy's Agent Stunned

Hollywood talent agent Doris Ross, no relation to the family, was stunned Thursday by the news of David's death. She said he wanted to be an actor and had sought her out because she had the same last name and "he thought we could work well together."

He was, she remembered, "a very determined young lad. He seemed to have a lot of potential. He was a type of kid who was trying to better himself. There was such determination in his eyes."

But, she said, he was with her only a short time at Associated Talent before that agency shut its juvenile department. There was not enough time to launch his career. She said that, although he went on one reading and there was a good report on him, "he just didn't have the credits for that big a part."

The agent, now with Joseph Heldfond & Ricks, remembered: "He was better than a lot of adult clients. He never went away from the phone. He definitely had talent."

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Wrong Victims Shot, Police Say : Apparent Retaliation Attack Kills Boy, Mother

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A 16-year-old boy who wanted to improve his life by becoming an actor was killed with his mother in their South-Central Los Angeles home when two gunmen came to retaliate for a weekend slaying they believed was done by his brother, police said Thursday.

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At the age of 15, Tommy joins the 8 Tray gang where he gets the nickname 'The Joker.' He glamorizes the life of gang members.

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At the age of 15, Tommy joins the 8 Tray gang where he gets the nickname 'The Joker.' He glamorizes the life of gang members.

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The 83 Gangster Crips (ETGC) also known as Eight Tray Gangster Crips or 8-Tray Gangster Crips are primarily an African-American street gang located on the West Side of South Los Angeles (formerly known as South Central, LA) California. Their neighborhood spread from Gage Ave to 79th Street, between Western Ave and Vermont Ave.

They fall under the Gangster Crips AKA Trays (3x) also known as . ETGC members are known to sport Texas Rangers or Texas Longhorns, baseball caps with the large letter "T" to show affiliation with Trays. They are named after a popular residential street called 83rd Street in the heart of their neighborhood.

The Eight Tray Gangster Crips are considered by Federal Agents and city officials, to be one of the most violent street gangs, in all of Los Angeles County. They are well-known for their brutal reputation with over 300 active members. They originated from the Original West Side Crips, led by Stanley Williams (Tookie), in the early 1970s.
In The News
The Eight-Trays made headlines when five of their members was found guilty of murdering two innocent teenage girls, over a bad drug transaction. One girl was shot fifteen times, and the other girl was shot eight times, they both died of their gunshot wounds. The members were sentenced to life in prison.

On April 29, 1992, the police officers who were involved in the Rodney King beating, were found not guilty. The black community was outraged by this verdict, especially the Eight Trays. Which, resulted in the brutal beating of Reginald O Denny the gang members are captured on videotape pulling Denny from his 18-wheeler.

Gang members are filmed from the sky by helicopter video cameras, and are seen repeatedly kicking him and striking Denny in the face, once with a brick, and then picking his pocket as he lay unconscious. The Eight Trays was one of the main gangs who participated in the 1992 LA Riots.

Trynon Lee Jefferson, aka " Psycho," a member of the Eight Tray Gangster Crips. Jefferson is widely recognized for his assault on three Los Angeles police officers. Trynon Jefferson was charged with three counts of attempted murder against 77th Division Officers Michael Strawberry, Charles Cho and Mark Ramirez.

The three officers, who were traveling in a scout car on Manchester Avenue on April 30, the second day of the riots, when they were ambushed by Trynon. However, all three officers survived with non-life threatening injuries. However, Trynon was shot once in the head and was in critical condition and sentenced to nineteen years in prison.

Sanyika Shakur (born Kody Dehjon Scott; November 13, 1963), also known on the streets as Monster Kody Scott, from Eight Tray Gangster Crips. Kody was one of the most feared gang members in South Central, Los Angeles. He got the nickname "Monster" at the age of thirteen when he beat and stomped a robbery victim until he was disfigured.

Shakur wrote an acclaimed autobiography called Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, which was published in 1993. Kody dedicates a large portion of his Autobiography (book), to the bitter rivalry, between the Eight Trays and the Rollin 60s, who have been feuding since 1971. Which, makes this the oldest feud between crip on crip, in the history of gangs.

The Eight Tray Crips are allies of most gang's, who fall under the Gangster Crips umbrella. such as the Avalon Gangster Crips and the Main Street Mafia Crips as well as the Broadway Gangster Crips and certain fractions of the Hoover Criminals Gang (primarily the Eight Tray Hoover Criminals Gang).

Their main rivals are the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips, this bitter feud has resulted in the Eight Trays forming an alliance with the Inglewood Family Gang, a former rival blood gang in Inglewood, California. They also feud with the Denver Lane Bloods and the Crenshaw Mafia Bloods along with all Brim Gangs.

The Eight Tray Gangster Crips are also deadly rivals of the East Coast Crips and not to mention all Neighborhood Crips and all Rollin Os (Crips).

The Rollin 60′sNeighborhood Crips and the Eight Tray Gangster Crips were close allies and often fought rival gangs side by side. However, they became full-fledged enemies by the mid 1980′s. This rivalry is responsible for being the first Crip on Crip rivalry in history. This feud spilled over into surrounding neighbor gangs.

Gangs started pledging allegiance to one or the other ( Rollin 60′s or the Eight Tray Gangster Crips). Gangs who aligned themselves with the Rollin 60′s adapted the Neighborhood Crips also known as and gangs who aligned themselves with the Eight Tray Gangster Crips adapted the "Gangster Crips" also known as Trays or Tray Gang's (3x).

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The 83 Gangster Crips (ETGC) also known as Eight Tray Gangster Crips or 8-Tray Gangster Crips are primarily an African-American street gang located on the West Side of South Los Angeles (formerly known as South Central, LA) California. Their neighborhood spread from Gage Ave to 79th Street, between Western Ave and Vermont Ave.

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A friend introduces Tommy to the 8 Tray Gang. Tommy realized there is a sense of camaraderie amongst the gang and that is something he longs for. When he was 13 he was jumped by a group of gang members and that made him want to join a gang.

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A friend introduces Tommy to the 8 Tray Gang. Tommy realized there is a sense of camaraderie amongst the gang and that is something he longs for. When he was 13 he was jumped by a group of gang members and that made him want to join a gang.

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Tommy is made to go to church every week and starts to resent in and begins misbehaving. His father whips him as a form of discipline. He continues to rebel against his father. 

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Tommy is made to go to church every week and starts to resent in and begins misbehaving. His father whips him as a form of discipline. He continues to rebel against his father. 

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Tommy grows up in L.A. with a Pastor father and his Nurse mother leading a fairly normal childhood. 

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Tommy grows up in L.A. with a Pastor father and his Nurse mother leading a fairly normal childhood. 