Hendricks is said in most of the articles not to have been in a gang. But they always say that when they are killed. They were good kids, trying to get out of the gang life, had managed to accrue six credits in community college over the last five terms, etc.
Hmmm. That sounds like the town where the assassination took place had at least one very active gang 'set'.
Imagine being a Pierce County Sheriff. Here are the gangs you are dealing with, as listed at the NW Gangs website linked above. (The Lakewood PD had 100 officers. Today they have 96.)
PIERCE COUNTY
BLOOD GANGS
* “B” Street Bloods
* Bounty Hunter Bloods
* East Side Green Raggers
* East Side Piru 44th Avenue
* East Side Villains
* Head Hunter Piru
* Insane Gangster Damu
* Mad Swan/ Family Swan Bloods 84th Avenue
* Native Gangster Bloods 32nd Avenue
* Original Loko Boyz 44th Avenue
* Rollin’ 20’s Bloods NHB
* Seven Deuce Mob
* Trap Star Bloods
* Trey-Five Alley Dawgs
* West Side Piru
* Young Gangster Bloods
* 181 Goons
CRIP GANGS
* Avalon Gangster Crips 11600 Block (Spanaway)
* Baby Gangster Crips
* Darkside Crips 35th Avenue
* Eastside 43rd
* Eastside Gangster Crips 35th & 64th Avenues
* Eastside Morton Blocc Crips
* Fudgetown Mafia Crips (Lakewood)
* Gangster Crips 83
* Gangster Crips 97
* Hilltop Crip Gang
-23rd Street Murder Blocc
-17th & “M” Street Young Boxer Crips
-16th Street Clicc Clacc DSD1
-15th Street Mobbin Deep Crips
-12th Street Trafton Blocc Crips
-9th Street Rip Ryda Loc Mafia
-8 Blocc
* Hoover Criminals 21
* Hoover Criminals 74
-Ratt Pacc
* Hoover Criminals 107
* Hoover Gangster Crips 52
* Knoccout Crips 47th & Oakes
* Kushman Blocc
* Lake City Crips (Lakewood)
* Lakewood Hustler Crips 47th Avenue
-Lila Lane
* McKinley Avenue Crips 64th Avenue
* Native Gangster Crips 40 Blocc
* Neighborhood Crips 25th Avenue
* Nutty Blocc Crips 92
* Rollin’ 20’s Crips
* Rollin’ 40’s Crips/ 46 NHC
* Rollin’ 60’s Crips
* Rollin’ 90’s Crips
* South Side Crips
* South Side Six-Tre Mafia Crips
* The Family 43rd & Warner
* Thug Life 37th Street
* West Side Acacia Blocc Compton Crips (Bremerton)
* Young Gangster Crips 45th Blocc
GANGSTER DISCIPLE FOLKS GANGS
* 66 Gangster Disciples
* 96 Gangster Disciples
* 120 Mafia Folks (Parkland)
* “B” Street Gutta Mob 56
* B.O.S.S.
* Crazy 8 (Spanaway)
* Deuce-8
* Murdaville 96th Street
* South Side 74 Gangster Disciples
-Crime Family 56th Street
-11-Deuce Blam Gang
-66 Scanless Fam
* Straight Savages
* Tillicum Park Gangsters
* Tray-8 Mobb
* Tru Gangster Disciples
PEOPLE NATION GANGS
* Four Corner Hustlers 4CH
* Insane Vice Lords 6th Avenue
HISPANIC GANGS
* Brown Pride Controlla
* Crazy Mexican Surenos 13
* Criminal Minded Locos Surenos 13 (CML)
* East Side Locos Surenos 13 (ELS)
* East Side Vatos Locos 13 (EVL)
* Evergreen Flats 13
* Florencia 13
* Little Valley Lokotes 13
* Loco Boy Surenos 13
* Locos Pandilleros Surenos 13
* Logan Heights 13 (Lakewood)
* Mara Salvatrucha 13
* Nortenos 14
* Old City Panama 13 (Lakewood)
* Rancho San Pedro 3rd Street
-Peewees
* South Side Locos 13
* South Side Playboy Surenos 13
-Conejos
-Rascals
-Wicked Bunnies
* Vatos Locos Surenos 13
* Varrio Surenos Lokotes 13
ASIAN GANGS
* Active Park Uso (Lakewood)
* Asian Boyz Crips
* Asian Family Mob
* Island Samoa Boyz
* Krazy Ruthless Bloods
* Kushman Block (Bloods)
* Loc’d Out Crips
* Loco Boyz (Bloods)
* Original Loko Boyz 44th Avenue
* Original Ruthless Bloods 38th Avenue
* Poison Posse Boys
* Royal Samoan Piru
* Samoan Mafia Gang
* Tiny Raskal Gang
* USO Pryde Family 90’s Block
HYBRID GANGS
* Diamond Block (TPG & ESP 44)
* Gangster Boyz
* Goodfellas
* Juggalos
* Tuk Town Kings
* Young N Thuggin
* 181st Street (Spanaway)
Thanks for the list.
If there was a button to push to kill every one of those gangs in toto, I’d push it in a second.
BLAM !