Members of the Eight Trey Gangster Crips killed 2 Female teens

www.streetgangs.com THE FOLLOWING CRIME WAS MOTIVATED BY THE DRUG TRADE AND NOT GANG CONFLICT OR RIVALRY. On May 12, 1988, two teenage girls Jamee Finney, 13 and Latonjyia, 18, were murdered because a drug buyer got swindled over a 000 purchase of a kilogram of cocaine. The buyers were so angry of being ripped off, they were looking for anyone who may be connected to the drug dealer and when they saw the two teens, the men behind the shooting mistakenly thought the they found the sister of the drug dealer. Dozens of rounds were fired into their car, killing both of them. Days later, the LAPD arrested Deautri Denard, 25; Lyndell Tyrone Jackson, 27; Vincent Burks, 24; John Jay Porter, 23, and Meredith Yolonda Carter, 19, members of Eight Tray Gangster Crips. Although the shooters were gang members from 83, the motive behind this shooting was drugs, as was many murders that occurred in many inner cities in America during the later half of the 1980s during the crack cocaine epidemic. The powder cocaine was going to be used to make several ounces of rock cocaine worth close to 000. The shooting occurred on the 1700 block of West 46th Street in South Los Angeles.