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Dead Homiez
Dead Homiez is a 1993 direct-to-video drama film directed by Billy Wright. Filmed on location in South Central Los Angeles, the film stars Treyvon Green and Cynthia Berry.
Based on true events, the film features real ex-gang members and details the effect of a drive-by shooting on the community, from the families, to the friends and neighbors of the victims, and the perpetrators. It features live concert footage of the rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. near the end of the story.
The film consists of the dramatization of an actual incident regarding the murder of Bloods gang member Darryl "Poo Bear" Young (director Billy Wright's cousin) who was murdered in a gang-related shooting in 1988. The dramatization is interspersed with commentary from members of several Los Angeles street gangs including The Athens Park Bloods, The Gardena Payback Crips, The Campanella Park Pirus (Who are different from the bloods), and the Grape Street Watts Crips.
In 1988, a 19-year-old man named Devonte Jones is murdered one evening at a gas station in South Central Los Angeles, shot to death by unknown assailants as he gets out of his car. When the LAPD homicide detectives arrive at the scene they learn that Devonte is a member of the East Coast Crips street gang and went by the street moniker "'Lil Cartoon". From the eyewitness accounts of the shooting the detectives surmise that Devonte was the intended target of the shooters.
While the detectives conduct their investigation a car pulls up with several members of the East Coast Crips. One of the Crips, Devonte's best friend Cartoon (Treyvon Green), approaches the crime scene and becomes enraged at the finding of his namesake dead in the gas station lot. After being restrained by the police Cartoon and the Crips leave the scene.
Days later, at Lil Cartoon's funeral, the Crips are mourning and listening to the pastor's eulogy while outside a teenage member of the Mad Swan Bloods, a gang located in the same neighborhood as the church, notices the Crip funeral while walking down an alley across the street from the church. The young Blood leaves and returns to the area with two more Bloods, who then summon other Bloods driving by. The church deacon peeks outside a window and notices the Bloods congregating in the alley but, after thinking about it, decides against informing anyone about it in order to avoid an inevitable conflict.
Meanwhile, the Bloods in the alley drive to a nearby basketball court and inform their fellow gang members about the "E-Rickets" (a disrespectful term for East Coast Crips) funeral nearby. Just as the gang members pile into a lowrider to drive off another car with two women pulls up. One of the women asks for "Poo Bear" and a Blood points to his friend, 17-year-old Darryl "Poo Bear" Young (Shannon Luckey), who is playing basketball on the court.
The women in the car are Poo Bear's mother and sister who arrive to deliver a letter to Poo Bear from his younger brother Alton, who goes by the street name "Solo". Solo is doing time in The California Youth Authority for an unspecified crime. After asking Poo Bear for money, the women warn him to be careful because there have been a lot of murders recently. Poo Bear dismisses their warning as "Old jinxy shit" and returns to the basketball court.
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Dead Homiez
Dead Homiez is a 1993 direct-to-video drama film directed by Billy Wright. Filmed on location in South Central Los Angeles, the film stars Treyvon Green and Cynthia Berry.
Based on true events, the film features real ex-gang members and details the effect of a drive-by shooting on the community, from the families, to the friends and neighbors of the victims, and the perpetrators. It features live concert footage of the rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. near the end of the story.
The film consists of the dramatization of an actual incident regarding the murder of Bloods gang member Darryl "Poo Bear" Young (director Billy Wright's cousin) who was murdered in a gang-related shooting in 1988. The dramatization is interspersed with commentary from members of several Los Angeles street gangs including The Athens Park Bloods, The Gardena Payback Crips, The Campanella Park Pirus (Who are different from the bloods), and the Grape Street Watts Crips.
In 1988, a 19-year-old man named Devonte Jones is murdered one evening at a gas station in South Central Los Angeles, shot to death by unknown assailants as he gets out of his car. When the LAPD homicide detectives arrive at the scene they learn that Devonte is a member of the East Coast Crips street gang and went by the street moniker "'Lil Cartoon". From the eyewitness accounts of the shooting the detectives surmise that Devonte was the intended target of the shooters.
While the detectives conduct their investigation a car pulls up with several members of the East Coast Crips. One of the Crips, Devonte's best friend Cartoon (Treyvon Green), approaches the crime scene and becomes enraged at the finding of his namesake dead in the gas station lot. After being restrained by the police Cartoon and the Crips leave the scene.
Days later, at Lil Cartoon's funeral, the Crips are mourning and listening to the pastor's eulogy while outside a teenage member of the Mad Swan Bloods, a gang located in the same neighborhood as the church, notices the Crip funeral while walking down an alley across the street from the church. The young Blood leaves and returns to the area with two more Bloods, who then summon other Bloods driving by. The church deacon peeks outside a window and notices the Bloods congregating in the alley but, after thinking about it, decides against informing anyone about it in order to avoid an inevitable conflict.
Meanwhile, the Bloods in the alley drive to a nearby basketball court and inform their fellow gang members about the "E-Rickets" (a disrespectful term for East Coast Crips) funeral nearby. Just as the gang members pile into a lowrider to drive off another car with two women pulls up. One of the women asks for "Poo Bear" and a Blood points to his friend, 17-year-old Darryl "Poo Bear" Young (Shannon Luckey), who is playing basketball on the court.
The women in the car are Poo Bear's mother and sister who arrive to deliver a letter to Poo Bear from his younger brother Alton, who goes by the street name "Solo". Solo is doing time in The California Youth Authority for an unspecified crime. After asking Poo Bear for money, the women warn him to be careful because there have been a lot of murders recently. Poo Bear dismisses their warning as "Old jinxy shit" and returns to the basketball court.