Army Rangers SMOKED Some Hilltop Tacoma Crips in 1989. Memory lane

This somehow popped up in my YouTube feed a couple weeks ago and I watched it. Fabled lore among the Tacoma folks I know.
 
I remember coming out of the Legends Club at 1am in early 1990 after seeing Mother Love Bone, and hearing gunfire nearby. That's my hilltop memory.
 
Worked with a guy who lived on M street, who noted the M stood for Murder. Next few months a dead body was found in the alley behind his place and a cousin was murdered. It's changed a lot but still some interesting happenings up there, but it seems mostly homeless related.
 
I remember coming out of the Legends Club at 1am in early 1990 after seeing Mother Love Bone, and hearing gunfire nearby. That's my hilltop memory.
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MLB! Andy Wood's sister in law, Vicki was my chemo nurse at SCCA. CSB
 
Worked with a guy who lived on M street, who noted the M stood for Murder. Next few months a dead body was found in the alley behind his place and a cousin was murdered. It's changed a lot but still some interesting happenings up there, but it seems mostly homeless related.
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I briefly dated a girl who lived there back around 2009. I didn’t realize the neighborhood was Hilltop until she told me. Total gentrification.
 
Worked with a guy who lived on M street, who noted the M stood for Murder. Next few months a dead body was found in the alley behind his place and a cousin was murdered. It's changed a lot but still some interesting happenings up there, but it seems mostly homeless related.
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First child was born at St. Joe's Hospital on Hilltop. Drove through there frequently on the way to lamaze class. Summer time, heard a pop pop pop and thought we were gonna die in a shootout. Turned out to be firecrackers (thanks, @Swaye ) Scared the living shit out of me.

The late 80's/early 90's in T-Town were tuff.

 
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Lived just outside the Hilltop near Wright Park in 91 & 92. As I was moving in a bunch of DEA agents were searching all the garbage cans in the alley. Second night I was there, somebody did a "two-to-the-hat" on a young kid in the McDonald's parking lot. Kid died. Thieves got away with all of $5. Tacoma was a fucking mess back then. Way, way better today.

#GentrificationWorks
 
Lived just outside the Hilltop near Wright Park in 91 & 92. As I was moving in a bunch of DEA agents were searching all the garbage cans in the alley. Second night I was there, somebody did a "two-to-the-hat" on a young kid in the McDonald's parking lot. Kid died. Thieves got away with all of $5. Tacoma was a fucking mess back then. Way, way better today.

#GentrificationWorks
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@PurpleJ! True???
 
Live within earshot of gunshots at Henderson and Rainier in the 90s and then pop off
 
Live within earshot of gunshots at Henderson and Rainier in the 90s and then pop off
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Have a tear gas canister explode within ten feet of you during a riot in Quebec City and then have the newspaper lie about you in a front page story two days later and then pop off
 
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