Gangs in the suburbs

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Gangs flourish in suburbs
Baltimore Sun – United States

In middle school, they were friends, playing in the same local football league. Some kids played for the Crofton Cardinals. Others wore the jerseys of the Odenton Wildcats.

It was innocent then, when the Cardinals – three seasons undefeated – began calling themselves TNT, or The New Threat. The kids from Odenton became ESD, or the East Side Diamonds.

Born of a sports rivalry, the two groups developed into what Anne Arundel County police are calling dangerous gangs. A resulting conflict left 14-year-old Christopher David Jones dead late last month. Days later, the home of someone erroneously believed to have been involved in Christopher’s death was firebombed.