The Making of a gangbanger. (Keeping Current).(Brief Article)

From: The Chicago Reporter | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

In Maplewood Park on Chicago's Northwest Side, Reymundo Sanchez, who had recently started hanging out with members of the Latin Kings street gang, was asked if he wanted to look for members of a rival gang called the Vicelords. He naively agreed, and was soon handed a sawed-off shotgun. Minutes later, he performed his first hit. He was 14.

Sanchez (a pseudonym) recounts the incident in "My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King," his stark memoir of becoming swallowed by gang life in the 1970s. He writes that he wants his story to show "that most kids are driven to gangs by ...

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