1.   Conventional wisdom says that gang members must be reached early to change.

2.   Gang members have a hatred of the police.

3.   Gang members have committed ferocious acts of violence.

4.   He later said the plan was to recruit former gang members and other neighborhood youths.

5.   He was cornered outside the school by three apparent gang members wearing red, the emblem of the Nortenos.

6.   He was cornered outside the school by three gang members.

7.   He was killed by rival gang members.

8.   His murder was a reprisal for an injury to a rival gang member.