a firearm. though authorities consider him the leader of the starz gang, oliver insists the starz isn t even a gang. you know, i really don t play basketball, but you know, i m good at everything i do. we re not a gang, we re a rap group, we re a clique. we might be five deep but they say anything over three people is a gang. so the police and detectives and the gang task made this into a gang thing, you know what i mean? then you got people who s not really a star that s really looking up to me that s just young and like, i want to be like lavish d. now you re going to tattoo stores, now you re getting on the internet, f the other side from starz. now you got his little posse that s not even from the starz but they re die-hard fans of lavish d. but the circumstances leading to oliver s arrest revolve around a feud between starz and zillas. weeks before his arrest, a video emerged online showing two known starz members attacking a known
know, it was a fight. authorities say the video posting sparked two days of gang violence throughout sacramento that left six people, some of whom were innocent bystanders, shot and injured. they had me all over the news. you got me on america s most wanted. sacramento s most wanted. crime alert. like man, what is going on here? you knew they were looking for you, right? yeah. you didn t want to turn yourself in? no, wasn t going to do that. why not? man, who want to go to jail? a few weeks after the shootings, oliver was arrested in alabama and extradited to sacramento. though he was considered a suspect in the shootings that followed the mall fight, he has not been charged. but oliver has been charged with assault for his presence at and recording of the fight. prosecutors also added a gang enhancement. i m not in jail for calling a shot. that s not my charge. my charge is assault. they charged me for participating in the fight. all i do is record it.
numbers. i ran into the bench and i broke my leg. all i did was pushing some into him and he ran and i started chasing him. but i didn t see a bench that was in front of me and i collapsed and broke my leg and limped off. i got screws and rods in my leg now though, you know. wandik is charged with assault and prosecutors added a gang enhancement which could increase the sentence if found guilty. he has pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. just hours after donald oliver posted the video on the interin the, a series of gang-related shootings took place in sacramento leaving six people injured. so they like, okay, that is serious-ass gang war, these dudes are bringing it into the mall and the public and they don t give a [ bleep ] about where they at, they re going to keep doing what they re going to do, let s try and put a stop to it. it was never like that. any shooting that happened in south sacramento they re going to swear lavish d has something to do with it, starz has somet
the streets. taunts and threats between the gangs are often communicated through the rap videos. because it s about respect and you don t want to be disrespected as a gang member or having someone else disrespect you because you re going to answer back either with another video or with violence. someone s going to take it to the next level, and they have done that. one year earlier, the reputed leader of the starz, donald oliver, also known as lavish d, recorded a fight between members of the starz and zillas at a sacramento mall. one of the starz members in the video is efrem wandik. happened so fast. wasn t supposed to happen like that. it just happened [ bleep ]. talking back and forth. so i m like, [ bleep ]. you keep talking like you just a tough guy, you feel me? i m going to beat your ass. wandik says the mall fights after an exchange of insults but he hurt himself more than
zilla member inside a sacramento mall. look at that [ bleep ]! oh-oh! oh-oh! oh-oh! hey, maxidean! [ bleep ]! what s up? come on, [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. come on, come on. [ bleep ]. while oliver is not seen in the video, he s the man and voice behind the camera. somebody see somebody. i don t know where they knew each other from but he was with high pressure crowd this dude by hisself. they broke out, start fighting. i m recording the fight on my cell phone. they fight. dude try to run or whatever. he tried to run and get out of the way. then people jumped him. oliver s next move led police directly to him. i put it on youtube. know what i mean? put it i mean, just you