he became this very calm, somber, self reflective person who was very honest. >> i have spent over half of my adult life locked up, on the streets i learned how to pickpocket and steal from stores. i didn't have time to sit here, i want to be a doctor when i grow up, i want to be an astronaut, never able to think of anything like that. >> reporter: witty said in his early teens he joined one of tulsa's street gangs. >> i was 12 1/2, 13, i learned to sell drugs and how to seriously provide for myself, i had cars, girls, guns, clothes. i have done a lot of things i'm not proud of. i have been stabbed, i've been shot. frankly, i'm tired of it. where has it gotten me? nowhere. they label me as a problem