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  • (Tookie Williams) Ex-gang leader's ashes spread in Africa

    07/01/2006 5:55:28 AM PDT · by lunarbicep · 34 replies · 800+ views
    sunherald.com ^ | 7/1/2006
    The ashes of executed Crips gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams were spread in a lake in South Africa in accordance with his will, a friend said. Barbara Becnel, who co-authored children's books with Williams and witnessed his execution, said in a statement Friday that she and Williams' longtime friend Shirley Neal sprinkled the ashes into the lake Sunday in Thokoza Park in the city of Soweto, as Williams had requested. "On his last day of life Stan asked me to spread his ashes in South Africa," Becnel said. "He wanted to return to the motherland." Williams was cremated after his...