Evaristo Salas Jr. (Junior)

They ended up bringing it down to these small communities in Washington State.

And what they did is when they got there is they started just recruiting everybody that would come along into these new gangs.

All these gangs are from California.

But they just started recruiting anybody that would come along.

And then within maybe a couple years, you know, it was fragmented and it was already starting to take root.

And like I said, I grew up with almost all the individuals in that town.

We all knew each other and went to school together.

And within...

maybe a couple months or a year we were all fragmented and we're fighting for things that we didn't even know you know and that was the and it happened really fast it may have took longer but in my youthful mind it seems like it happened pretty fast you know and and that's when you started seeing kind of the violence kind of grew from that prior to that there was gangs in sunny side but it wasn't

They weren't, like, serious gangs.

They were, like, homegrown ones that they would fight here and there over schools and that kind of stuff, you know.

But you didn't see the colors.

You didn't see the gang entire, the way they dressed and all that stuff.

You didn't see that kind of stuff until probably the late 80s, you know, or, you know, mid-80s.

That's when you started seeing the change.

And then in the early 90s is when it really started kind of, you know, gripping the community.

And the violence kind of grew into, you know, where people were actually getting shot and killed and those kind of things.

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.