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.

And I'd say, okay, well, I know this person lives here, so I'm going to cut this way, and I'm going to cut through this yard and go that way.

And it was a constant.

Sometimes you feel a little more secure if you have three of your buddies with you or your supposed gang members with you.

You feel a little more secure.

But someone can just drive up and start shooting at you, or they come up with more people, and then you're fighting.

I mean, I went down not even two blocks from my house and went to a store, which we know we shouldn't go to because that area is kind of, I wouldn't say controlled, but I'd say there's a bunch of other gang members that live there, rival gang members,

We came out of the store and they were waiting for us, five of them.

And one of them tried to stab me and literally almost stabbed me.

And if it wasn't for one of my friends throwing a pop in his face, he prevented him from actually stabbing me.

And that was an everyday thing.

And it almost became a norm.

And it's like we lived with almost this fear inside of us every single day that we had to fight or we had to run.

There was one time I came out of a... And this is not even...

A block down from my house, I came out of this store, this Mexican store, and I had a bunch of, you know, donuts I was buying.

And there was 20 rival gamers right there that just called my name.

And I looked, and the only thing I could do was, I mean, I must have been like, what, 14, I think.

I just ran.

But if they would have caught me, you know, they could have beat me to this.

There was times where, you know, I'd get caught where they would say, you know, you got caught slipping or whatever.