Dead Homiez
This fact-based urban drama offers a moving, unforgettable account of the effect a drive-by shooting has upon the community, from the families, to the friends and neighbors of the victims, and the perpetrators.
In 1988, a 19-year-old man named Devonte Jones is murdered one evening at a gas station in South Central Los Angeles, shot to death by unknown assailants as he gets out of his car.
One of the Crips, Devonte's best friend Cartoon (Treyvon Green), approaches the crime scene and becomes enraged at the finding of his namesake dead in the gas station lot.
The church deacon peeks outside a window and notices the Bloods congregating in the alley but, after thinking about it, decides against informing anyone about it in order to avoid an inevitable conflict.
Despite the pastor's plea for the young men not to go outside the Crips run out of the church and into the street to confront the Bloods who are disrespecting the funeral.
After hurling taunts and insults at one another a Blood member throws a bottle of malt liquor at the Crips and a gang brawl erupts in the street which is broken up when the police arrive.
While the brawl is taking place Poo Bear is at the basketball court reading the letter from Solo, who states that he hates Youth Authority and intends to return to school and leave gang-banging alone once he's released.
Tuffie is immediately upset at seeing Poo Bear drive up with B-Fool, a shady Bloods gang member who has a reputation among their set for being "scandalous".
It turns out that the clean cut man is Poo Bear's rival Cartoon, the Crip whose best friend was murdered at the gas station at the beginning of the film.
Seconds after walking away Cartoon turns around, draws a Glock pistol and opens fire on Poo Bear and B-Fool who attempt to flee back into the apartment.
Cartoon stands over Poo Bear and fires another six shots (a total of nine rounds altogether) into him before running back down the alley into an awaiting car and drives off.
Solo is released from Youth Authority on a 12-hour furlough to attend his brother's funeral with instructions to be returned to the facility by 8:00 PM.
At the cookout B-Fool instigates a retaliation against the Crips, specifically goading Solo to seek revenge for his brother's murder.
After taking off their red bandannas when a patrol car pulls up alongside them the Bloods continue driving and spot two men standing in front of a house talking.
A postscript states that Moon continued to drive the stolen car after the shooting and was pulled over two days later by police and arrested for the double murder of the man and his son.
Moon turned state's evidence and as a result he, Solo and B-Fool were sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison.
G-Twin, the twin son of one of the founders of the Athens Park Bloods, was shot to death while riding a bicycle through a Crip neighborhood in Compton, CA.
His murder was featured in the documentary "Bastards of the Party" directed by fellow Athens Park Blood gang member Cle "Bone" Sloane.
