gang members

“He believed the Sleepy Lagoon story to be fabricated on two levels: Coleman needing to justify his search for his father and his own latent homosexuality; Coleman wanting to curry favor with SLDC Latins by saying the killer was white — not the unfound Mexican gang members the leftist community asserted the slayers to be.”

The Big Nowhere

“She was no longer afraid of gang members and street criminals, and would even throw down with an eight-hundred-year-old vampire if need be, but rodents still sort of gave her the willies.”

You Suck

“In August of 1942 a Mexican youth named José Diaz was beaten to death and run over with a car out at the Sleepy Lagoon — a grass-knolled meeting place for gang members in the Williams Ranch area of Central LA.”

The Big Nowhere

“His son, Richard “Ricky” Jr. was shot six times and nearly killed about fifteen years earlier in their neighborhood when he was walking on the street and confronted by two gang members who demanded Ricky declare his affiliation.”

Simon & Schuster: Defending the Damned