P. .v Wallace CA3

FACTS

Gang Rivalry Beginning in around 2000, gang families from Oakland moved to South Sacramento, many to Franklin Villa, known as G Parkway. The area had previously been run by the Crips gang. The Oakland gangsters took the name GMOBB and went to war with the Crips. GMOBB allowed local males to join under the GMOBB umbrella. The local group began as BAY (Bad-Assed Youngsters) and morphed into STARZ or STARZ Up. Another subset of the gang, composed of boys aged 14 to 16, was known as Guttah Boys. As time went by, some members of the Crips gang formed an alliance with

STARZ.

GMOBB’s rival is the Bloods gang and its various subsets, Ridezilla, FAB, and GUNZ or GUNZ Up, which started in 2007. The rivalry between GUNZ Up and STARZ Up/Guttah Boys became very violent. Between May 2008 and July 2010, law enforcement attributed 26 shootings as occurring between these two gangs.

3 Wallace’s March 8, 2010, Shooting of Taylor (Counts 1 & 2) On March 8, 2010, a woman who lived on Mack Road heard yelling. She looked out her window and saw a group of young African-American men yelling and running around; one had a gun in his hand. She called 911. She heard a shot; she saw a man fall and…