A SUMMARY OF GANG CRIMES AROUND THE US FOR THE WEEK

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
North Carolina mass shooting may have gang connections. Prosecutors said
gang involvement may have played a role in the mass
shooting at qatar Ba County house party that left one
person dead and eleven others injured. So a crazy story
over there in Cataba. Let's take a look at this
a little bit more. It looked like it was a
motorcycle club shooting, where again it left one dead and

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eleven wounded. Two people were shot at the Outlaw Motorcycle
Club house. One victim died of their injuries at the
other at the hospital. The second one was there. One
at the hospital died, the other one was there lifted
at HBM Health Medical Center remains in critical condition. When
the police arrived in Member, they were met with about
thirty people who were believed to be armed. The shooting

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possibly involved a dispute between two motorcycle gangs, according to
the spokesperson, who added the establishment has been an area
of concern for suspected gang activity in the past. That
prompted a larger response, bringing agencies from as far as
Iredel County. The shooting comes one week after a gang
related shooting killed a man and hurt eleven other people
at a Kataba county as well. Eight people were arrested

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within a week in charge of the numerous crimes related
to the planned attack. So there are two separate shootings
the Cataba mass shooting. Let me see that one was
not motorcycle gang related. The other one was when I
was just talking about a few days before that, deputies

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announced Zachary Bates was arrested for attempted murdered. Another individual
was also arrested for attempted murder. The US Marshals arrested
an eighteen year old They're all twenty two nineteen eighteen
twenty two, twenty one Friday morning, around one am, officials
announced a twenty year old Toland Huff had been arrested
on one count of attempted murder as well. The gunfire
erupted at a large organized pool party in the Walnut

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Acres community, an event that was promoted on social media
and drew a crowd of about one hundred people. There
was an emission fee to get in before the night
turned chaotic. The decease was victimized as Sean Hood, fifty
eight years old, of believe he may have played a
role in organizing or promoting the events. The victims were
between the ages of sixteen and fifty eight. It appears

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that the shooting started from an elevated position from a
neighbor's yard, and persons that attended the pool party were
also armed, and there were shots fired from those people
as well. Whether they were direct return of fire, they
can't confirm, so they're still looking into that. Official said
about ninety minutes before the shooting, law enforcement officers had
visited the house because of anoise complaint. We don't believe
that this was random. It seems to be though, that

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those that initiated the shooting were focused on the folks
at the party, so probably it's set up or something.
More than seventy people have been interviewed and the FBI
is also in on it. We're going to make these
podcasts a little longer, probably trying to get you some
of the different reports stories and see how you folks
like this. Another story was a member of the Hell's
Angels with suddenced Friday to twenty one years to life

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and stay prison for stabbing a man in the chest
in Ocean Beach. Prosecutors called the attack, which includes two
black men, racially motivated. Troy Shoulder, forty four, was a
longtime leader of an active San Diego County chapter of
the Motorcycle Gang, and was one of seventeen people indicted
by a grand jury for various roles in the June
sixth attack. One of the victims fled, but the other

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two were severely beaten by numerous defendants who hurled racial
slurs and told the victims they didn't belong in that neighborhood.
Shoulders prison sentence was doubled due to a prior conviction
in which he pled a guilty to robbing and former
Hell's Angels member who had sought to leave the gang.
In another case, five Highs gang members convicted by jury
of Rico conspiracy, drug trafficking, and firearms offenses. It was

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a three week trial where a federal jury convicted five
Minnesota men for their involvement in the Highs, a violent
Minneapolis street gang, and in gang related murders, shootings, and narcotics.
According to court documents and evidence presented at the trial,
the defense were members of various clicks or subsets of
the Highs, a criminal enterprise controlled territory north of West

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Broadway Avenue of Minneapolis. Members of the Highs committed murders,
narcotic trafficking, burglaries, weapons violations, and all sorts of stuff
as part of their high membership. The defendants were expected
to retaliate against their rivals, the Low's Gang, which operated
south of West Broadway. These two gangs have been in
a gang where that spanned years, and the alleged members
of the Low's Gang have been separately charged with federal

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crimes as well. The Highs have been in North Minneapolis
for a long time, so they slap with the rico charges.
That's going to put them away for quite a bit
of time. The gang an were escalated ran around September
ninete twenty twenty one, when a prominent Highs member was
shot and killed at a barber shop. Two hours later,

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suspecting that the Lows were responsible, the defendant Guiles traveled
to Penwood Market and Lowe's territory. Once there, Guiles, who
was dressed in black and wearing a mask covering his face,
shot and killed a Low's member. He fired the fatal
shot into the victim's back before he attempted to flee
from the scene. Evidence of trial type defendant Robinson. The
two shootings went into a crowd of individuals in downtown
and another into a parking lot. So I think the

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second of several trials in this case, which charged over
forty defendants with RICO conspiracy and arcotics trafficking firearms. The
federal district judge will determined any sentence after considering the
US sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors. Needless to say,
they're going to be going away for a long time.

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And our last story for the day is a Following
a one week trial of federal jury in Memphis convicted
a member of the Unknown Vice Lords of vonand Street
gang in Memphis for his involvement in a gang related murder.
According to court documents and evidence presented to the trial,
Vincent Grant, also known as v Slash of Memphis, was
a high ranking member of UVL also known as the
Ghost Mob, a criminal enterprise the controlled territory throughout the

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entire city of Memphis and beyond to Arkansas and Mississippi.
Members of UVL committed murders, burglaries, assaults, human trafficking. When
the gangs was preme elite chief, the leader of the
entire state of Tennessee, was murdered the gang saw retaliation.
The gang supreme Elite chief and his girlfriend were murder
in a residential neighborhood in broad daylight. The gang sought
retaliation that same night against a rival game, the Traveling

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Vice Lords, whom they initially believed to have been responsible.
Multiple UVL members drove to a known TVL hangout and
engage in a gun battle. During the next few days,
UVL conducted its own internal investigation and were informed that
a fellow member was sought to be responsible for their
chiefs murder. Five days after the chief was murdered, the
implicated member of the victim for this trial was murdered

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at the hands of Grant and other UVL members. As
a keeper of guns, Grant for the gang provided guns
to multiple gang members with a purpose of going on
a demo, which is the gang's term for committing violent acts. Then,
early in the next morning, around one Grant and three
other member gang members drove the victims to an apartment complex,
where two of them executed the victim with the guns
Grant provided, so they executed one of their own. I

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don't know what ended up happening with the Lows when
they actually obviously misidentified who killed them. But that's your
update for now. So we're going to keep trying to
see if we can do this weekly where we have
to give you several stories about gang arrests and activity
around the nation.