The Latin Kingss are some of the worst of the worst. Read about them. leanr.
THEN come back and talk.
The Latin Kings rose to be one of the most feared and revered gangs inside and outside the penal system in the state of Illinois. The Latin Kings ordered “hits” against correctional officers, killed disobedient members and did not hesitate to commit violence against rival gang members. Latin King gang members would follow orders and vowed to lay down their lives for their “Nation”. Unfortunately, this also meant extreme internal discipline and organized fear. One such story goes as follows:
In 1983, an inmate by the name of Carlos Robles was considered an escapee two days before he was scheduled to be released from the Illinois Department of Corrections. Years later, a high-ranking Latin King, who turned informant, gave the FBI critical information about the location of Carlos’ skull and the bloody tale of how the Latin Kings butchered him and fed him to the Stateville Prison inmate population for dinner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Kings_(gang)
None of these things was what this individual was doing at the time - he was tagging a garage, and could easily have been a “wanna-be” or a peripheral gang members - that’s for example the case with most of the teens caught tagging garages in my neighborhood with “gang-related” stuff.
Now, tagging is a real PITA - it can cost hundreds of dollars to repaint a garage, and the city is Johnny on the spot with a fine if I don’t immediately remove graffiti - and I’m right there with the poster who suggested that anyone caught tagging should spend a month or two removing other people’s tagging.
But tagging is not a capital offense - and as to the gang angle, the individual who shot this tagger had no way of knowing if he was actually was a gang member or not.