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05/20/2008: "Crips founder shot, killed"

The Aurora Police Department this morning confirmed that the man gunned down in front of an apartment building on Saturday morning is Michael Darren Asberry, one of the co-founders of the Crips street gang in the metro area.

Asberry had renounced his gang connections and his criminal past, but continued to have trouble holding down a job, because his history kept catching up with him, Kelly said.

Kelly declined to say much about the shooting but said it is his understanding that the shooting was not the work of the Bloods gang, the longtime rivals of the Crips.

"It's almost like that gunslinger mentality," he said. "You hang up your guns and you have to deal with the young ones who want to come along and try you."

[ Cripes! ]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/19/1980s-gang-organizer-shot-killed-in-aurora/