[2] In sentencing Richard Wolfe Jr. in 2015 following his convictions for rape and assault, the judge stated: "He was raised in an environment where substance abuse and domestic violence was prevalent.
[6] The journalist Jon Friesen wrote about the Wolfe brothers: "By the time they were about ten or eleven years old, Danny and Richard were quite accustomed to raising themselves.
[14] Richard Wolfe started carrying a handgun to school at the age of 13, and after his gun was discovered by a teacher, resulted in his first criminal conviction on 2 February 1989.
[15] Under his leadership, the Indian Posse started to specialize in stealing cars and robbing gas stations in the North End at gunpoint.
[23] The Wolfe brothers liked to dress in the style of the Afro-American gangs of Los Angeles who along with the West Coast gangsta rappers he idolized, wearing Nike shoes, baseball caps, and red jackets.
[24] Richard stated he was twice taken "on a starlight tour" under which the police would arrest him in the dead of winter at night, take him to a remote rural area and tell him that he had to walk back to Winnipeg.
[24] Joined by his bloodthirsty younger brother who was always enthusiastic about violence and another Indian Posse member, Richard went out to hunt for a policeman to kill.
[24] Richard found a policeman in his cruiser and as he approached the officer, he recalled: "I was creeping along on the ground when I turned around to check on my brother and he's gesturing at the other guy, saying basically 'what about him?'
[28] Richard's cool temperament and his ability to "talk to the room" as he phrased it marked him out as an excellent diplomat who was able to handle relations with the other gangs, unlike his wilder younger brother Danny who was known for ungovernable rages and a tendency to act in a rash, violent way.
[31] Richard made a ruse of an offer of surrender as he recalled in an interview: "We told him [the leader of the War Party] we wanted to sit down and make a deal with him, talk to him.
[33] The Indian Posse came into conflict with another gang, the North End Brotherhood, over drug sales at the Merchant's Hotel, leading for Richard to tell them: "We make good money here.
[37] Richard read out to Wiecek a poem he had written that read: "Our color is red and it's here to stay, some of us have something to prove and some of us already have/But all in all we are the Indian Posse and together we stand tall/We are a breed that has seen it all and had its better days, but in the end we will learn our true native ways/We don't mean to disrespect our elders, but we want to stand proud like they did in our hearts/We are warriors and in ourselves we will survive the war path/In the days of old, our people used to fight and kill each other and as they did we will if there is no other way/We hold our heads high because we are not scared to die for one another, for we will join the Great Spirit in the sky/Call us what you will, but it is your racist blood we will spill/Brothers Forever Indian Posse".
[38] The interview caused a media sensation with Richard's threat of the Indian Posse mobilizing the First Nations underclass of Winnipeg into a revolutionary force against Canada being highlighted along with the line from his poem "it is your racist blood we will spill".
[44] The possibility that Richard might go to prison for a number of years as he had several prior drug convictions weakened his hold on the Indian Posse, and led him to decide on a dramatic gesture meant to underscore his authority.
[44] As such, Richard was quite willing to engage in extreme violence against a defaulting debtor to uphold his reputation, and by May 1995, he was notably annoyed with the owner of Jumbo Pizza who kept promising to pay the $60, 000 without doing so.
[44] The pizza was to be delivered on an address on Pritchard Avenue near the Lord Selkirk Park Housing Development that Wolfe had selected as a good way to ambush the deliveryman as the streets were dimly lit.
He had expected the owner of Jumbo Pizza to come himself, but decided that killing the deliveryman was the best way to send a message even though Slawik was not involved in crime and had never met Wolfe before.
[50] Richard was highly stressed that night as he expected to be arrested at any moment and paced his apartment obsessively as he brooded over any mistakes that he might had made that would incriminate him.
[52] Richard felt confident that he would be acquitted as it was unlikely that Slawik could identify him; the police had no murder weapon; and he burned the clothing he was wearing at the time of the shooting.
[58] Despite the threats of Danny, both Darryl and Christa testified that Richard had Colleen make the pizza order from their apartment and had told them later the same night that he had shot Slawik.
[57] Wolfe met with three other members of the ruling "circle" (council) where he asked for permission to leave the Indian Posse, saying the gang was becoming too violent.
[64] As the trio discussed the fate of Wolfe outside of his cell, he read books on First Nations history and culture while anxiously keeping his eyes on the three men who held his life in balance.
[64] Wolfe lived in fear, keeping two "shanks" (homemade knives) on his person at all time, refused to go into the exercise area and always ate his meals with his back to the wall.
[65] As Wolfe struggled to reach his "shanks", another inmate closed the door and put a blanket over the glass wall that severed his cell from the hallway.
[65] Wolfe collapsed into a pool of his blood when the attack was abandoned when one of the guards entered the cell when he noticed that a blanket had placed over the glass wall via a security camera, leading him to suspect that something illegal was happening.
[68] He received a letter from a friend in Winnipeg who warned him that the Indian Posse was sending a killer to the Drumheller prison to kill him, which led for Wolfe to be especially fearful whenever a bus full of new inmates arrived.
[68] Knowing of his gang's modus operandi, Wolfe decided that his killer would be an young Indian Posse gangster who was anxious for promotion and he would be transferred from Stony Mountain to Drumheller.
[74] Wolfe was respected by the Mafiosi for founding the Indian Posse, which had become the largest street gang in Canada, and he was allowed to live in the Mafia wing of the prison.
[78] As her boyfriend raced to protect her, Wolfe beat him with a baseball bat so viciously that he suffered brain damage and has difficulty walking.
[76] Owing to the dangers of attacks from rival gang members and for being a rapist, Wolfe was held in solitary confinement, causing him to suffer from severe depression, which contributed to his death from a heart-attack at the age of 40 on 27 May 2016.