And this confounding, randomized violence is just what Nicascio Zuniga’s sister spoke about when she gave us an interview two nights ago. Her brother was shot in the head on the way home from the corner store, a stone’s throw from home – his sister Keish said it’s all about where he was born:…
Kesha Zuniga - Sister
"So let me put it out clear to the public and the police officers that are saying that my brother is gang related, Jules he's not, he is not. He may be hanging out with people who are affiliates of gangs but he wasn't a gang member."
Jules Vasquez
"Is that what your brother faced last night; just because of where he's from they say well we wa get you."
Kesha Zuniga - Sister
"Yes that's it because he's from here or he's from this area where they call I dunno give me the slang."
Jules Vasquez
"Backalang."
Kesha Zuniga - Sister
"Backalang because I don't know about the slangs Jules. This teacher don't know about those kind of slangs but because he is from the backalang crew or deh inna the area where they call backalang and maybe the other gang rivals, PIV and I don't know; you know them I don't know them. So maybe they no link, they don't communicate with each other, they just want kill out each other you know. I mean Jules life is too short, very short and it's very hurt to see that people in the neighbourhood who you grow up with are killing the ones they use to go to school with. So to say coping with it, it's very hard, very very rough because I am wondering now my son is one year and six months; what will I think about him when he grow up? I say Jules you bring your child into this earth but you don't know what will happen, you don't know how they will end."
Zuniga’s family has lived in the area for over two decades.
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