The Crips, of Los Angeles, are one of the oldest, largest, and most notorious street gangs in the United States. The gang was founded in 1969 when a teenager named Raymond Washington left a gang ...

Most people today agree that the central figure in the Crips' formation was Raymond Washington, who was in his midteens in 1969. Mr. GERALD CAVETT(ph) (Unity TWO): Raymond used to be in a--was a ...

As it turns out, however, these stories are all dead wrong. The Crips gang was formed in 1971 by two people -- Raymond Washington and Stanley Tookie Williams. Washington was killed in a shootout ...

The Crips were formed in Los Angeles in 1969 by Raymond Lee Washington, a 15-year-old from South Central who called his street-fighting crew the Avenue Cribs because of their youth and joined ...

“I remember that Raymond Washington was a hog,” said Ronald “Kartoon” Antwine, a community activist from Watts who remembers seeing the Crips founder at the Watts Summer Festival.

To get them out of the street gangs.” Williams, now 46, and high school buddy Raymond Washington created the Crips in 1971 to fight rival gangs in east Los Angeles. Washington was killed in 1979.

The group called themselves Cribs, which took on the name Crips. The gang soon grew into a power in itself, and its violent feud with L.A.’s Bloods gang is legendary. Washington, who was said to ...

The Crips are a primarily, but not exclusively, African American gang. They were founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1969 mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams. What was once a ...

There are old Crips who have reformed, men like Chico Brown. But there are others who never had the opportunity: Raymond Washington, who co-founded the Crips with Williams, was shot and killed in ...

Williams and childhood friend Raymond Washington are credited with founding the Crips in 1971. Washington was killed in 1979. Williams was sentenced to death in 1981 for fatally shooting Albert ...