- This article is about the street gang. For other uses, see: Piru (disambiguation).
The Pirus or Piru Street Boys are a Los Angeles, California area street gang alliance (under the larger alliance, Bloods) based out of Compton which spread to Carson, Inglewood and Watts.
The name "Piru" is derived from Piru Street in Compton. Originally founded about 1969 and known as the Piru Street Boys, by 1971 they had associated themselves with the Crips. However at the end of 1972 they had a falling out with the Crips, and Piru Street Boys members Sylvester Scott and Vincent Owens, among others, called a meeting of non-Crip gangs, including the LA Brims,the Fruit Town Boys, the Tree Top Trojans, the Lueders Park Hustlers, the Denver Lanes and the Bishops.[citation needed]
This meeting eventually led to the formation of the Bloods.[1] There are fifteen known Piru sets.[2] Piru in current times is simply an alliance under an alliance. The Piru alliance is under the Blood alliance, in which the Piru alliance has street gang sets which have subsets.
Rap music mogul Suge Knight has been linked to the gang since he started Death Row Records.[3]
See also
Notes
- ^ Capozzoli, Thomas and McVey, R. Steve (1999) Kids Killing Kids: Managing Violence and Gangs in Schools St. Lucie Press, Boca Raton, Florida, p. 72 ISBN 1-57444-283-X
- ^ "Bloods" Know Gangs
- ^ CrimeLibrary - Hip Hop Homicide
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