Opinion ID: 1267352
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Murder of Jose Angel White

Text: On the evening of Saturday, September 22, 2001, VGL members who gathered at Centennial Park learned that two VGL members (Roach and Shoke) had been hit by a car and beaten with baseball bats by members of the rival Crips gang. The VGL members discussed retaliation and dispersed looking for revenge. Later that evening, Farmer attended a party in Glen Cove, New York with fellow Blood Kashawn Jackson. There, Farmer spoke with Jackson and Gregory Key, another Blood, about the attack on Roach and Shoke. Farmer said that he knew who did it, and the three agreed to [t]ake a ride out to Roosevelt, see the guy who did it. Jackson arranged for Melissa Petrizzo, the girlfriend of a Blood, to pick them up in front of a housing project in Glen Cove. Before getting into Petrizzo's car, Farmer asked Key if he had a burner (a gun); Key assured him that he did. Once in Roosevelt, the group stopped near a convenience store where Farmer thought the offending Crips might be, but Farmer and Key did not find them inside. As the two walked back to the car, Farmer asked Key whether he could carry the gun. Key responded, yeah, but if you use it, you have to pay for it. [1] Farmer took the gun from Key. Back in the car, Key asked Farmer where a certain Crip lived. Farmer said he knew, but expected only the Crip's mother to be home. Key suggested that they shoot up the house anyway, because he wanted to increase respect for the Bloods and because he needed to repair his status within the gang after having undergone drug rehabilitation in Virginia. Petrizzo objected and kept driving, until Farmer saw two boys on bicycles, one of them dressed in all blue ( i.e., color-coded as a Crip). Farmer pointed and said, there they go right there; directed Petrizzo to pull over and turn off the lights; and then got out of the car, took a few steps, and fired three shots at the two boys from a distance of approximately five feet. Farmer got back into the car, dropped the gun at Key's feet, and told Petrizzo to drive back to Glen Cove. As Petrizzo drove away, an ambulance passed going in the other direction. Farmer excitedly proclaimed, I got those crabs (Bloods slang for Crips). Petrizzo dubiously observed that the victim looked like a little boy, but Farmer responded, [t]hat wasn't a little boy. I knew who it was. Later that afternoon, Farmer visited Petrizzo and her Blood boyfriend, boasted that I got a body, and confirmed to Petrizzo that the victim had died. Farmer eventually discovered that he had killed Jose White, a popular fourteen-year-old boy who was not a Crip. After the shooting, Farmer felt like his name may come up, so he had to get out of town.