WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:
A federal jury has convicted the last of six members of the violent 103 street gang charged for ordering a retaliatory shooting that ended the life of an innocent bystander.
Shaquille Richards, 32, and Alexandra Nicks, 32, both of Houston, were convicted of using a firearm to kill during a racketeering murder and murder in aid of racketeering.
"The gang war that these defendants engaged in plagued Houston's Third Ward community for years," said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. "Based on yesterday's convictions, these violent criminals are facing long prison sentences that will...