There have been five homicides in
Roswell since June 4th
police have now--the latest murder
happened just yesterday
Roswell police are--two homicides in
Roswell gunfire rattled the Roswell
neighborhood last night and left a man
dead
now police are trying to sort through
the chaos to find out what happened
Roswell police are investigating the murder of the son
of a prominent community member--dead last
night inside a van
he'd been shot now police found the van
at the intersection of Walnut and Ohio
police have made an arrest in one of the
town's latest homicides
24 year old and--he crawled right
there
I lived in that house and he was sitting
on that box right there and he died
right here
so down here in New Mexico you can cut
someone off at the stoplight
and then you pull to the next stop light
and you get a slug in your face
--you gotta understand you cannot
pull out a firearm here unless you're
gonna use it because
if you pull one out I guarantee you 80%
90%
of the people, here, have a firearm on
them and they're gonna use it
and people don't understand that and a
lot of the homicides stem from people
pointing guns or making threats because
if someone makes a threat to my life,
my first thought is gonna be I got my
kids living here I'm not gonna let them
come shoot my house up i'm gonna pull up
on them before they can, you know?
That's gonna be--then we'll
worry about that in the holding cell,
like that's always gonna be my first
thought, because that's how it is around
here you know that's how we're raised
and that's what I've seen all my life so
it's hard to let go of what you see...
the people from California come over
here and--
and I don't have nothing against it--my grandpa's from there
I love California, but the thing
is that they live in these big hoods and
they come over here and they think that
it's not like that here
and they come over here and it ain't
like that, they're gonna get blown down
--as soon as they try to pull out
a gun
and they don't understand that--
and what happens is these guys think
because they're from Cali
and that the origin of
south side or whatever it is
came from over there so they think when
they come here they can give orders and
they can't
the biggest homie over there
will come to Roswell and get blown down
by a 15 year-old
because that's just the way it is here
and that's what they don't understand
like
you can't come here and walk on any
street, right now I know kids that
probably have five or six bodies,
they think Roswell or even New Mexico
for that--is just some place that,
ya know, it's not going down but it's
going down over here it's going down in
Albuquerque it's going down in
Cruces, New Mexico--
people see those old western movies like
that and they think like
they think it's a joke man it's not--how
those movies are in the wild west and
the shootings and the saloons and all that
it's modern-day outlaws here and when
they draw their gun like showdowns or
whatever they're called
I've seen that, ya know? I've seen a car
pull up and the person
--faces the other person and
whoever pulls their gun first is who's
going to live--
and that's just that's just how it goes--
I don't know if it's tradition but I
know that,
I know that uh--I know you gotta uphold
what your family has--
the way that your family lived
I know that's gonna come to you no
matter what
so you gotta hold to that, so
if your family's full of shooters
they're gonna bring it to you as you're
a shooter so you have to do that like
you're forced into that
and that's something that people don't
always understand--it's not like
we can just
--if I want to fight
somebody and they want to fight me
they're going to know my family's record
and they're not going to bring it to me
with the fight
they're going to bring it to me with a
chopper (AK-47) because the way
that my family is, so in turn, I gotta
bring it to them with the chopper too
because I can't
like I said earlier I won't be no victim--
it doesn't matter what I gotta do, I
won't be no victim...
[Police Scanner Noise]
the hood I'm from is south side 13, in Roswell New Mexico
it's not something that we just wake up
one day and want to do--
we're brought into this we live this
when they're teaching you
how to ride a bike or
you know they're teaching other people
to write their name they're already
telling me how to iron my bandana how to
load a gun
you know what side of town to go on--what colors not to wear
the same way that I know how to ride a
bike is the same way that I know how to
gang bang
it seems like the same the way that I
was raised and brought up and what I've
seen
it's never been no different--so it's not
weird to me you know like
people might see someone with the
bandana and get on high alert
like it's a gang member it's
not
to me it's just everyday life--white tees
we wear pro clubs but we're not really
in the cortezes and the dickies and all
that
we don't really do that you know--if
you're not certified if you didn't come
up under somebody or you can't tell them
who your big homie is
then you're really not part of the hood--
so back in the day the color thing
mattered but
here's the crazy thing about it and I
know we're probably
you know a lot of people probably won't
agree but in Roswell New Mexico
south side and north side are clicked
together we tie flags here
and those are the two biggest rivals but
because of my family
they made some crazy ass kids you know
and we tie flags with north side
so anywhere here that I go you know I'm
going to be respected
by north siders as well--
juvenile prison and adult prison
is different New Mexico
Department of Corrections--
uh there's not too much I can go into
about that
but you know what I can say is that
Roswell
we carry our own you know Roswell New
Mexico carries our own
uh we clean up our own backyard what
that means is that
we handle our own stuff within our own
circle we don't
wait for someone else to handle it so if
you're from Roswell
and you burn somebody that's from
Albuquerque
before Albuquerque starts looking at us
bad we're gonna stick our own person up
you know what I mean? because we clean
our own backyard--
it's like three tiers you can either be
just normal from Roswell
and that's where you ain't nothing you
just want to be left alone uh you could
be a Roswell boy, a Roswell boy is basically
where you're
you're there to do your time but if
something jumps
you're gonna you're gonna get into it
you can't let a Roswell
person get beat up alone
and then you got CTR boy--just crazy town Roswell CTR
the gang--
and that's where you're fully in
you're knee deep
I earned my CTR my elbow I got my
alien, my UFO's
I can't go into with the UFO stands for, but
what I can tell you is that
I don't have tattoos because they look
cool, ya know? The tattoos I have
I earned that and whether it was in the
prison system or in the streets
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