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Raymond Lee Washington (August 14, 1953 – August 9, 1979) was an American gangster, known as the founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles. [1] Washington formed the Crips as a minor street gang in the late 1960s in South Los Angeles , becoming a prominent local crime boss .
Raymond is a city in Pacific County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,882 at the 2010 census . The 2020 census showed the population of 3,081, an increase of 6.4%.
Michelle Knotek appealed her convictions, but was denied by the Washington Court of Appeals. [13] She served approximately 18 years at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor and was released on November 8, 2022. [5] [6] David Knotek was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Shane Watson. [7]
Stanley Tookie Williams III [1] [2] (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an American gangster who co-founded and led the Crips gang in Los Angeles. He and Raymond Washington formed an alliance in 1971 that established the Crips as Los Angeles' first major African-American street gang.
Pacific County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,365. [1] Its county seat is South Bend, [2] and its largest city is Raymond. The county was formed by the government of Oregon Territory in February 1851 [3] and is named for the Pacific Ocean.
In I Am Raymond Washington (2014) it is claimed that Washington formed the Crips after leaving the Avenues gang in 1969. While Washington never wrote a memoir like Williams, a biography of Washington titled I Am Raymond Washington was published in 2014 by Zach Fortier, a retired police officer.
The Raymond Theatre is located in Raymond, Washington. It was built in 1928 by Asef G. Basil with 360 seats and a Hope-Jones Wurlitzer theater organ . The Raymond Theatre is owned by the city of Raymond and is operated as a community theatre.
Raymond is a male given name. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund [ 1 ] and Raimund , [ 2 ] whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ ( Raginmund ) or ᚱᛖᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ ( Reginmund ). [ 1 ]