Opinion ID: 3155943
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Saquawn Harris

Text: Alphonce Little testified that appellant Harris was a member of the 22nd Street Crew, although he was a newer member of the gang who had been introduced to the gang and encouraged to sell drugs on 22nd Street by influential gang member Eric Dreher. Little further stated that he sold illegal drugs with Harris and shared weapons with him. The testimony of several police officers bolstered Little‘s testimony about Harris‘s connection to the 22nd Street Crew by establishing that Harris was seen regularly with Tann, Beaver, Arnette, Rushing and other gang members on 22nd Street. In light of these relationships, the James Taylor-Bernard Mackey incident was probative evidence of Harris‘s participation in the conspiracy. The facts of that incident showed that Harris, Tann, and many other gang members, responded to an insult by an outsider, Omar Harrison, to Alphonce Little‘s girlfriend on 22nd Street – in the heart of the gang‘s territory – and to Harrison‘s instruction to Little‘s girlfriend to ―go get your baby[‘s] father.‖ Harris and Tann opened fire in the direction of Omar Harrison in a sequence of events that resulted in the death of 30 James Taylor and the wounding of Bernard Mackey. Like the Terrence JonesRichard Queen incident, Harris‘s active participation in an event where he violently reacted to a perceived threat to the reputation of the gang (and to the girlfriend of a fellow gang member) was sufficient evidence of his knowing participation in an agreement ―to assault and to kill‖ those whose interests ran contrary to those of his gang associates.