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Compton, CA – Bay Locc (aka Geechi Gotti) and Baby Hacc from Nutty Blocc Compton Crips talks about growing up in Compton, going to elementary school, and hanging out in the Grandees, a section of Nutty Blocc area located near 165th and 166th streets. They give us a tour of the Grandees, which historically is the location for one of the first splinter Crips sets from the original three Westside, Eastside and Compton Crips of the early 1970s.
Grace Lafond-Barr’s son, brother, and half brother were all murdered in a 12-year span. Her son, Jaron Tyler Jahnke, was shot in the stomach in Saskatoon in a case of mistaken identity. Indigenous people are seven times more likely than non-aboriginal people to be a victim of homicide.
By Jeremy Warren | The StarPhoenix
Indigenous men are more likely to be murdered than anyone else in Canada – possibly more than 2,000 in a 30-year period.
Grace Lafond-Barr believes healing starts in the home, so she moved her family to Muskeg Lake Cree Nation from Saskatoon two years ago to escape the city where murder took away her two brothers and a son.
She hopes the distance between the city and her grandkids will mean a quieter life without the spectre of violence and vice following them as they grow into young men. Lafond-Barr has seen enough of that: in…
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A California coroner has ruled that the death of a former NFL player’s prison cellmate was a homicide by strangulation, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.
Lawrence Phillips, 39, was suspected in the death of 37-year-old Damion Soward, who was found unresponsive in their cell on Saturday and died at a local hospital the next day, officials at the Kern Valley State Prison said on Monday.
The Times reported on Wednesday that the Kern County coroner’s office said Soward died of neck compression asphyxia, and that his death was a homicide.
Representatives for the coroner’s office could not be immediately reached.
Soward was serving a sentence of 82 years to life for first-degree murder, prison officials said. The Los Angeles Times reported that Soward was a gang member who was convicted of executing a member of a rival gang.
Phillips played for three NFL teams over four years in the 1990s, ending his career with the San Francisco 49ers in 1999.
Officials said Phillips entered the prison in the central California city of Delano in October 2008 and was serving a sentence of 31 years and four months for domestic violence, false imprisonment and vehicle theft.
Local media said at the time the charges stemmed from two instances where he choked his girlfriend, including once where she lost consciousness.
Phillips had also been convicted of driving his car into three teenagers after a pickup football game in an unrelated case, according to local media.
Prison officials said Phillips was placed in a separate unit pending the outcome of their investigation. It said prison officials
there were also investigating a separate case involving another inmate over the death of another cellmate.
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