Knight’s gang feuds

Marion “Suge” Knight glorified gang violence and hired gang members as he built Death Row Records into the world’s leading rap label. Along the way, he became entangled in bloody gang feuds.

Summer 1996 April 3, 2002 Knight fires one of his bodyguards Alton “Buntry” after police inform him that the McDonald, 37, man, a Compton gang member, Knight’s best had orchestrated several killings. friend and chief The man vows revenge against bodyguard, is Knight. shot dead at a gas station in Compton. The June 1, 1997 slaying sets off Aaron “Heron” tit-for-tat shootings among rival Palmer, 30, a factions of the Bloods. member of Knight’s inner circle, is shot June 7, 2002 dead while Eric “Scar” Daniel, 29, a Compton stopped at a red gang member, is shot and killed. light in Police say it was in retaliation for Compton. the slaying of McDonald.

April 4, 2000 Oct. 16, 2002 William “Chin” Henry “Hen Walker, 37, is Dog” Smith, 33, killed and a longtime Wardell friend of “Poochie” Knight’s who Fouse, 40, a designed the Knight Death Row logo, associate, is is shot dead seriously injured near a fried- when assailants shoot into their chicken stand in South-Central Chevrolet van on a dead-end L.A. The connection to the earlier street in Compton. slayings is unclear.

April 27, 2000 Oct. 22, 2002 Vence “V” Police say they intervened to Buchanan, 35, prevent a Death Row employee an alleged drug from shooting a member of the dealer and Denver Lane faction of the member of the Bloods. Bloods gang, is found dead near May 27 a Compton Armed assailants open fire on the graveyard. deserted headquarters of Death Buchanan’s friends, including the Row Records in Beverly Hills at fired Death Row bodyguard, 2:30 a.m., tearing holes in the blame Knight for ordering the facade and shattering windows. killing. Knight denies any involvement. July 24 Fouse, the March 25, 2001 Knight associate David “Brim who survived a Dave” Dudley, previous 29, is fatally ambush, is shot shot in front of and killed while a house owned riding a by a close motorcycle in friend of Compton. Knight’s. Dudley was rumored to have participated in the killing of Sources: Law enforcement records, Buchanan. Times interviews

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