Evaristo Salas Jr. (Junior)

And so what I would do, I would have to come up with a strategy on how to get from point A to point B.

Good.

I smell liquor.

What do you guys think of gangs?

Yeah.

And then you were like, okay, well, then that's what I'm a part of because these guys are attacking me now, so I might as well.

And so it was a little bit mixture of those two things.

And I got kind of, it was strange because what happened was that my dad, you know, he ended up, he got with some woman and they were together for a number of years.

Well, her kids were a part of kind of that gang.

And I had known them since we were kids and everything.

So, you know, I just started hanging around with them.

And that's how kind of it started, you know what I mean?

And I just started hanging around with them, and then other individuals started disliking me and said, well, you're this, you're that.

And then eventually I just became a part of it.

And then that's kind of, it's a subtle, it's weird because when you're that young, I think I was 12 at the time or 11, you don't really understand, you know, the magnitude of the decision you're actually making, you know.

And, you know, you just kind of just, well, these are my friends, you know, and I'm going to, you know,

you know, protect them, they're going to protect me.

Anyways, we're getting jumped by these guys over here.

We need protection.

This seems like, in your youthful mind, it's a logical step, you know, to ask for protection.