a few weeks earlier, kruger was convicted of robbing and murdering the owner of an orange county liquor store. according to witnesses, kruger shoved the 100 pound man so fiercely that he flew through the air before striking his head on the ground. resulting in a five-inch crack in his skull and ultimately his death. i try not to hurt the guy. unfortunately he died i was trying my hardest not to hurt the guy. i didn t strike him or anything like that. store surveillance footage captured only the beginning of the incident. what happened was i was drinking with my homeboys, and went down next door to the liquor store, and bought some cigarettes and i decided to steal a pornographic magazine and take it back to the bar with my friends. liquor store owner saw me take it, so he accused me of it, you know, and we basically i said i didn t do it, you snow.
as long as you re there for it. kirkpatrick says he relished gang life right from the day he was jumped in, an initiation rite where a group of current gang members fight the wannabe. four of my homeboys from my hood jumped me. they told me whatever you do, don t just curl up in a ball and lay down, you know what i m saying? then you re going to look like a coward or a punk. you know what i mean? so i did the best that i could. and i slung with the best that i could. you know? i still got my butt whooped. i was still busted up in the face and all sore the next day, but i was part of the hood now. i belonged to something. and i loved it. i m not going to lie. i loved it. having abandoned his family for gang life, kirkpatrick turned to other crimes. when we met him, he was serving his second prison term, eight years for burglary. i know right from wrong. i m not a stupid individual. i might make stupid decisions, but i m not a stupid individual. during his time in prison, kirkp
gang members fight the wannabe. four of my homeboys from my hood jumped me. they told me whatever you do, don t just curl up in a ball and lay down, you know what i m saying? then you re going to look like a coward or a punk. you know what i mean? so i did the best that i could. and i slung with the best that i could. you know? i still got my butt whooped. i was still busted up in the face and all sore the next day, but i was part of the hood now. i belonged to something. and i loved it. i m not going to lie. i loved it. having abandoned his family for gang life, kirkpatrick turned to other crimes. when we met him, he was serving his second prison term, eight years for burglary. i know right from wrong. i m not a stupid individual. i might make stupid decisions, but i m not a stupid individual. during his time in prison, kirkpatrick still had his gang to fall back on, but like his biological family, he eventually left his gang family, though not totally on his own accord. i w
cause too many years gonna pass me by locked up behind prison bars and it hurts my heart looking out my window i see death row and it ain t no joke looking at my homeboys i grew up with it was like it was cut short whoever thought they d live on death row they always saying able the first to go but i know there s a better place for me i know there s a heaven for me every day that passes i step closer my old [ bleep ] casket the madness the madness the sadness let the clock keep ticking now i find myself asking how to die alone a homeless child i got to keep it real keep it no frills keep it hard core like this concrete, steel, everybody s pushing me
fisher s cellmate is 20-year-old dinell thompson. better known here as duker. thompson was at maricopa appealing 2 murder convictions that could land him in prison for at least 32 years. keep the noise down over there. rap has helped the two men bridge their generation gap. trying to film [ bleep ]. the cellies share one other thing in common. they re both members of the crips street gang. but they were at very different stages in their life. cousin ice was no longer in love with the lifestyle. i haven t actually went out gang-banging, shooting at people just because they re from across town and all that. i haven t done that in years. but i still hang with my homeboys.