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Murder Of Henry Smith
On October 16, 2002, Death Row Records employee Henry "Hendog" Smith was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Vermont Vista, Los Angeles. Smith was a close friend of Suge Knight Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. ( ; born April 19, 1965) is an American former record executive, former National Football League, NFL player, and convicted felon, who is the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Knight was a central f ... and was known for designing the logo of Death Row Records. During the time of Smith's murder, the Mob Piru Bloods affiliated with Death Row Records were embroiled in a gang war with another Bloods set known as the Fruit Town Piru, which resulted in the deaths of several of Suge Knight's associates. However, investigators attributed Smith's murder to the Denver Lane Bloods, rather than the Fruit Town Piru. Background As the CEO of Death Row Records, Suge Knight hired gang members from several Bloods sets (subgroups), including the Mob Piru, Fruit Town Piru ...
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Vermont Vista, Los Angeles
Vermont Vista is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, within the South Los Angeles area. History Early History In the late 1880's the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway erected a station on the modern intersection of Vermont Ave. and Century Blvd. which became known as the Sunnyside Division In 1920 after a railroad merger, the F Line of the Los Angeles Railway ran a streetcar service down Vermont Avenue to Delta Station on Imperial Ave. Modern History Beginning in 2000, the Eighth District Empowerment Congress began working on the "Naming Neighborhoods Project" to identify and name individual communities that had historically been grouped together and regarded as part of South Central Los Angeles. The first focus group was held at Hebrew Union College in June 2000. Through research, a meeting with an urban historian, and numerous community meetings, the Empowerment Congress ultimately outlined sixteen unique neighborhoods, including the neighborhood of Vermont Vist ...
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Pistol
A pistol is a type of handgun, characterised by a gun barrel, barrel with an integral chamber (firearms), chamber. The word "pistol" derives from the Middle French ''pistolet'' (), meaning a small gun or knife, and first appeared in the English language when early handguns were produced in Europe. In colloquial usage, the word "pistol" is often used as a generic term to describe ''any'' type of handgun, inclusive of revolvers (which have a single barrel and a separate cylinder (firearms), cylinder housing multiple chambers) and the pocket gun, pocket-sized derringers (which are often multiple-barrel firearm, multi-barrelled). The most common type of pistol used in the contemporary era is the semi-automatic pistol. The older single-shot and lever-action pistols are now rarely seen and used primarily for nostalgic hunting and historical reenactment. Fully-automatic machine pistols are uncommon in civilian usage because of their generally poor recoil-controllability (due to the l ...
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Death Row Records
Death Row Records is an American record label that was founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, and Dick Griffey. The label became a sensation by releasing multi-platinum hip-hop albums by West Coast-based artists such as Dr. Dre ('' The Chronic''), Snoop Dogg ('' Doggystyle'') and 2Pac ('' All Eyez on Me'') during the 1990s. At its peak, Death Row made over US $100 million annually. By the late 1990s, the label began to decline after the death of its star artist, 2Pac, imprisonment of Suge Knight, and the departures of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. It was embroiled in controversies, lawsuits, and violence by its artists and associates, despite enjoying financial success. Death Row Records filed for bankruptcy in 2006 and was auctioned to WIDEawake Entertainment for $18 million on January 15, 2009. The owner of WIDEawake went bankrupt in 2012; the label was sold to Entertainment One, and it then became a division of Hasbro until April 2021, when eOne Music was sol ...
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Drive-by Shooting
A drive-by shooting is a type of assault that usually involves the perpetrator(s) firing a weapon from within a motor vehicle and then fleeing. Drive-by shootings allow the perpetrators to quickly strike their targets and flee the scene before law enforcement is able to respond. A drive-by shooting's prerequisites include access to a vehicle and a gun. The protection, anonymity, sense of power, and ease of escape provided by the getaway vehicle lead some perpetrators to feel safe expressing their hostility toward others. Historical conception The invention of the drive-by shooting is attributed to Nestor Makhno, commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century. He combined horse and carriage with a machine gun in order to quickly assault targets then flee before they could properly react. It was called a Tachanka. Motor vehicles offer similar concealment for transport of weapons to crime scenes in situations like the 2015 San Be ...
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Suge Knight
Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. ( ; born April 19, 1965) is an American former record executive, former National Football League, NFL player, and convicted felon, who is the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Knight was a central figure in gangsta rap's commercial success in the 1990s.Travis L. Gosa, "The fifth element: Knowledge", in Justin A. Williams, ed., ''The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop'' (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015)p 56 This feat is attributed to the record label's first two album releases: Dr. Dre's ''The Chronic'' in 1992 and Snoop Dogg's ''Doggystyle'' in 1993. Knight is currently serving a 28-year sentence in prison for a fatal hit-and-run in 2015. Before founding Death Row Records, Knight played college football at UNLV Rebels football, UNLV as a defensive end. He briefly played in the National Football League, NFL for the Los Angeles Rams as a replacement player during the National Football League Players Association#1987 strike, ...
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Mob Piru
The Mob Piru (also known as MOB Piru, East Side Mob Piru, Insane Mob Gang or Mob Piru Bloods) is a "set" of the Piru gang alliance and a criminal organization, which is itself part of the larger Bloods The Bloods are a primarily African Americans, African American street gang which was founded in Los Angeles, California. The gang is widely known for Crips–Bloods gang war, its rivalry with the Crips. It is identified by the red color worn ... alliance. Suge Knight, the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records, is an affiliate. History Founding of the Bloods In 1969, a gang called the Piru Street Boys was founded by Sylvester Scott and Vincent Owens. According to some sources, the Piru Street Boys were initially associated with the Crips, but later had a falling out. However, other sources dispute any alliance, claiming that the Piru Street Boys were victimised by the Crips. Nevertheless, by 1972, the Piru Street Boys formed an alliance with other smaller stre ...
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Fruit Town Piru
The Fruit Town Piru (also known as the Fruit Town Piru Bloods) are a "set" of the Piru gang alliance, which itself is part of the larger Bloods alliance. This Piru set is known for its rivalry with the Mob Piru Bloods during the early 2000s. History Formation The Fruit Town Piru formed in the 1970s in Compton, California. The gang was named after the various streets in their neighborhood which were named after fruits, such as Plum Street, Cherry Street, Apple Street, and Peach Street. Feud with Mob Piru Suge Knight, who was affiliated with the Mob Piru, hired members of several Blood sets, including the Fruit Town Piru to work for Death Row Records. George "G" Williams worked as a bodyguard for Knight, until he was fired for failing to return two Death Row Records cars which he borrowed. Several bodyguards from Death Row Records tried to abduct and murder Williams, who escaped, but was shot in the buttocks. After this, Williams became a close associate of Rodrick Cardal ...
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Murder Of Alton McDonald
On April 3, 2002, Alton "Buntry" McDonald (February 5, 1966 – April 3, 2002), a member of the Mob Piru Bloods and a production manager at Death Row Records, was shot dead at a gas station in Compton, California. The murder was believed to be the result of fighting between two rival "sets" of the Bloods, the Mob Pirus and the Fruit Town Pirus. Events Background McDonald was a close friend of Suge Knight, the former CEO of Death Row Records and worked as a production manager at the record label. McDonald was also a friend of Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru Shakur (; born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor, regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all tim ... and was involved in the beating of Orlando Anderson on September 7, 1996, at the MGM Grand, which occurred a few hours before Shakur was shot. By 2002, a rivalry developed between two se ...
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Pacific Time Zone
The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico. Places in this zone observe standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−08:00). During daylight saving time, a time offset of UTC−07:00 is used. In the United States and Canada, this time zone is generically called the Pacific Time Zone. Specifically, time in this zone is referred to as Pacific Standard Time (PST) when standard time is being observed (early November to mid-March), and Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) when daylight saving time (mid-March to early November) is being observed. In Mexico, the corresponding time zone is known as the ''Zona Noroeste'' (Northwest Zone) and observes the same daylight saving schedule as the United States and Canada. The largest city in the Pacific Time Zone is Los Angeles, whose metropolitan area is also the largest in the time zone. The zone is two hours ahead of the Ha ...
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Bloods
The Bloods are a primarily African Americans, African American street gang which was founded in Los Angeles, California. The gang is widely known for Crips–Bloods gang war, its rivalry with the Crips. It is identified by the red color worn by its members and by particular gang symbols, including distinctive hand signs. The Bloods comprise various subgroups known as "Set (gang), sets", among which significant differences exist, such as colors, clothing, operations, and political ideas that may be in open conflict with each other. Since the gang's creation, it has branched throughout the United States. History The Bloods gang was formed initially to compete against the influence of the Crips in Los Angeles. The Crips–Bloods gang war, rivalry originated in the late 1960s when Raymond Washington and other Crips attacked Sylvester Scott and Benson Owens, two students at Centennial High School (Compton, California), Centennial High School in Compton, California. As a result, ...
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