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...most remorseless and dangerous individuals I have come across in 24 years of practice." So said Judge Robert Altman as he sentenced Los Angeles Gang Member Michael Hagan to the maximum of 27 years to life for the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Kellie Mosier. Hagan, 23, claims he was high on the drug PCP last year when he pumped six bullets from a rifle into the back of a girl he had never...
This recent skirmish in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley was no military operation. The government patrol consisted of game rangers from the country's Department of National Parks and Wild Life Management. The enemy was a gang of poachers that had crossed the border from neighboring Zambia to plunder one of Zimbabwe's most treasured resources -- the last great population of black rhinos living in the wild...
During the trial, Irene endured Hagan's remorseless composure and watched in disgust as he reveled in the pride of gang life. Sometimes, when she sits alone in her daughter's room, she cannot help wondering where a young boy learns to pull the trigger without blinking, why manhood in the ghetto is such a dangerous thing. "I knew these gang members when they were just babies," she says sadly. "Now look at them. They've turned into killers...
Across town in the Los Angeles County jail, Hagan is chuckling. He cannot believe someone would ask him how gang members learn to shoot. "It's just like in the movies," he explains, demonstrating different firing positions. "You just shoot until you hit something...
...exodus of the black middle class from the inner city compounds the agony of those left behind. The victims range from a Newark family trapped in a morass of crime and self- destruction to a would- be model in Los Angeles slain by random gang violence. -- Reagan, both apologetic and defiant, tries toregain command. -- The fight over the Bork nomination heats...