Evaristo Salas Jr. (Junior)

And sometimes, you know, chase me down or that kind of stuff, you know.

So it was...

it was still, you know, that kind of stuff, you know, and then later towards when I, you know, towards, I would say 94, 95 and 96 is when that's when they started to kind of shooting at us.

And then it became really serious, you know, these guys are actually trying to kill us, you know, and then it became, then you had that kind of fear that you kind of really didn't have before.

And I started worrying about, you know, them doing drive-bys at my house or, or, you know, uh, my sisters live there and that kind of stuff, my dad and, you know, uh,

And so the fear of death started becoming real about the age of 13 or 14.

And then you would see individuals here and there, you know, part of our gang that had a gun here or had a gun there.

But it was never like, you know, it was never like, well, these guys have it or you guys have it like that, you know what I mean?

So it was just,

It was just so new, I think, to the area.

It's probably a lot different now than it was back then.

Yeah.

And it wasn't just me.

It was like everybody apart.

And

It was everybody that was part of the community, and it was... The worst part about it is, in a sense, we were kind of doing it to ourselves, you know what I mean?

We were fighting for unknown reasons, and then it just perpetuated into something violent.

And then it was an everyday thing.

I literally could not walk anywhere in any direction.

I was either going to get jumped, I was going to get shot.