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Ready, come and kill me, because i m a snitch. being labeled a snitch. on the streets, it s the worst insult there is, detectives say because nobody wants that label, and some 30% of the gang homicides in hollenbeck go unsolved and that means that 30% of suspected killers get away with murder. why was steven killed? a rival gang shot killed him. steven bueno was well known in the neighborhood, and his name was all over the walls. they called him french. yes, they caught him slipping and unarm and unprepared. put your hands together. steven s father milton finds it hard to believe his son had enemies. in jesus name we pray. amen. amen. he hopes someone will come forward. he wants his son s murder solved. ....
it s like when you drop hot oil on your skin, that s exactly how it feels. kiki wrote father greg boyle from prison and asked for help. father boyle runs homeboy industries, the largest intervention in employment agency for gang members in los angeles. he s known kiki for two decades. you think kiki has woken up to the reality of gang life? i will say in terms of the gang issue, yeah. you know? and everybody has that moment where they say, i m tired of being tired. and i think that s pretty much where he s been. in hollenbeck surviving beyond the age of 30 is already a remarkable statistic for a hard-core gang members like kiki. are you hopeful? yeah. yeah. i mean, again, i think he s got the right attitude. and maybe sometimes people have to hit bottom. you know, he s struggling still. you i don t think he s struggling with the gang part but not everybody who walks through the door is ready and and he hasn t always been ready but i would say that he is now. ....
To see how life has changed. we warn you, our report includes graphic images not suitable for young viewers, but this is reality. this is gangs of hollenbeck. for 15 miles, this is hollenbe hollenbeck. just about every block claimed by a gang. all about money and territory. reporter: claiming it, defending it and taking more, often through bloodshed. it s a common story in hollenbeck, a violent story told year after year, generation to generation. i can think of the other people that have died here, so many. and they were all young. my son was 20 years old. you live in that lifestyle, it s not if, it s when. unless you get out of that life there s two ways you ll end up. one is in the ground and the other is in prison. ....
i grew up the wrong side of the tracks and all reporter: did you think you would live to be 32 years old? i don t believe i could say that i could live to 18 years of age. it s more heat on the streets, say cops. i have seen as many people come out of the projects and houses that are success stories as murderous thugs and gangsters so i think it s an individual choice. thugs and gangsters there s still an estimated 6,800 gang members in hollenbeck. still too many unsolved murders. i knew right then and there he was not going to make it. he just i am trying to hold it. i m sorry. but how you can hold something when you watch your son die you know in your arms? this is bad news. witness intimidation, fear of retaliation, the code of silence plays loudly here. somebody that talks to the police, being labeled as a rat or a snitch, a rat or snitch ....
Gabriel was in his backyard when someone shot him in the head at close range. aiello was a gang member. this looked like a hit. as a crime scene detective, wayne fields picked up on a telling detail. whoever walked up on gabriel walked up to him. he had a gun in his waist and never pulled it out. that tells me that he knew whoever killed him. detective fields knew ayala well. so it was not a big surprise what happened to him? it was not if, but when. it was a matter of time. yeah. gabrielle s time was coming. he was too active, too well known. he played too hard trying to be too tough in his gang, and it caught up to him. he had a lengthy criminal record, and everyone in hollenbeck seemed to know his name. what kind of reputation did ....