SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – A prisoner slain by fellow white inmates at a Northern California prison this week was a founder of Public Enemy Number 1, a white supremacist prison and street gang.
Law enforcement and watchdog groups confirmed Friday that 48-year-old Devlin “Gazoo” Stringfellow helped start the group known as PENI. It is affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.
Prison officials say they don’t know a motive. Experts can’t immediately say if Stringfellow’s alleged killers are gang members. But former gang investigator Matthew Buechner says Stringfellow had been a target of other white supremacists for years.
He was the second high-profile gang leader slain at the maximum security prison east of Sacramento in recent years.
Officials say Stringfellow was repeatedly stabbed by two fellow inmates.
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