Ryan Reed

Ryan

## General Background

Uneventful. That's the best way to describe Ryan Reed’s early life in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in a lower-income area of Chicago's south side where his family stayed for most of his younger life. His family while loving was very short sighted focusing only on their own wants and desires leaving him plus his brother Dylan to make their own way in life. They both were prone to trouble but never really did any serious crime until late in their high school years.

They started simply at first tagging walls with graffiti while getting high on whatever party drugs they could find. Eventually, it escalated to full-on car theft for joy rides and eventually even selling these cars to some shady people they knew. Dylan eventually stopped with the petty crime and focused on his part-time job but Ryan kept going until his luck ran out. On July 15th, 2015 Ryan Reed was arrested on "Joyriding" charges after stealing a car from an underground street racing event. At the time he felt lucky when the judge said because of his age he will only be serving 2 years in juvenile detention.

On June 1st, 2017, Ryan arrived at Los Santos International Airport where his brother Dylan was waiting nearby with a few people he hadn't met before. Over the course of the day he caught up with Dylan about what he'd been doing in the years, while he was gone. No one had told them about what Dylan and his friend had been up to but after a few days, he was entirely involved in the operation. They began selling weed, hash, and ecstasy to dealers they recruited while establishing connections with some local small-time gangs. Never intending to form a gang they never really made a big name for themselves until a group started to undercut them.

The Crime rate skyrocketed as more and more groups realized the massive amount of income they could make. The Reed brothers realized quite quickly that they'd need to form a name for themselves and start to protect their avenues of income before other gangs pushed them out. Due to Ryan’s prior experience, he focused on keeping everything in line while his friend and Dylan worked on recruiting and expanding connections with other gangs. This worked out well for a very long period of time until the Police department and some other gangs started focusing on them. The Reed’s responded equally hostile pushing some of these groups out and putting serious hurt on organizations that couldn't be removed easily. They became known as The Reed Crime Family and continued to expand their influence throughout the city while leaving a trail of bodies for PD to investigate. This didn’t last long for Ryan and his family. The PD soon caught up with the Reed family and it didn’t end well for them, Ryan and his brother were the only ones in the family to actually go to prison, the rest ended up on the FBI watch list but no more no less. Ryan served over 2 years in state jail while his brother Dylan had gotten himself killed in prison for snitching on his own brother. Ryan soon went to court where the judge ordered the death penalty and that he would get 1 week before going to his death sentence. Ryan had to think quickly on what he was going to do. While waiting for the bus to take him back to prison, Ryan got to sit in on another inmate's court sentence. This is where he meets Henry, who was in jail for vehicle manslaughter. Henry's charges were getting dropped for the lack of evidence but he will be serving another 3 days due to a prior warrant. Ryan introduced himself to Henry and told him about his death sentence. They talked for over 18 hours where Henry came up with the idea of breaking him out of prison in 3 days after Henry’s sentence was over. Henry said he knew somebody on the outside who would be willingly to help and will introduce him to Ryan when they break him out. Ryan began planning his escape by  paying 5 other guys with over $100 commissary each in the prison to help. He would tie bed sheets into a rope and wear some stolen DOC uniform that one of the guys that Ryan paid let him use. The night before Ryan was scheduled for his death sentence is when Ryan and the others decided they were going to execute the plan. One of the prison mates distracted the cell block DOC with an injury while another cell mate tied the bed sheets to the barbed wire where Ryan climbed over. Ryan successfully escaped and now just has to wait for Henry and his friend to pick him up. Henry, his friend, and Ryan drove off where they hid in a big town called Los Santos for a while before Ryan got some plastic surgery and a name change. The name change wasn’t legal but it got the job done. Ryan was feigning an adrenaline rush so they decided to rob a small store and made an easy $873. Enjoying the adrenaline rush they went for round 2 and 3 but on round 4, something happened that they would have not expected. There was a bank truck loading money to an ATM as they were pulling up. Henry’s friend , Jonny, convinced the other two that they should attempt to rob the bank truck and they said “sure why not”. So they decided to hide around the corner waiting for the truck driver to talk to the store clerk Raj. Ryan runs to the bank truck and gets in the driver seat. Ryan grabs a notepad and a set of keys that was left behind. Surprisingly they did this undetected and now had the addresses for the atms with the assigning keys to them. Around 10 hours later, Ryan had seen the store manager closing up shop and leaving. So they unlocked the ATM with the keys they had taken and were given around $4,223. But upon further investigation there was something special inside the atm, it was a small transponder that they could possibly use for a bank heist so they decided to take it as well. This was the start of Ryan’s life in Los Santos.