DETROIT – After gang violence left two children dead in 2016, authorities set out to stop a violent Detroit gang.
According to authorities, a young girl, A'naiya Montgomery, was killed on Easter Sunday 2016 in a shooting related to the Playboy Gangster Crips gang, and 6-year-old Miracle Murray was killed in a retaliation shooting that happened shortly after.
Members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives identified a long list of gang members, including members who would boast about their gang involvement on Facebook.
Investigations led to 17 members of the gang being sentenced to prison time.