East Nashville Crips

The East Nashville Crips were founded by Jamal Shakir, a leader of the Rollin' 90s Crips in Los Angeles. Shakir brought with him a portion of the Los Angeles Rollin' 90s Crips members and established a set in East Nashville, in Nashville, Tennessee. While there is no certainty to the exact date of establishment for the East Nashville Crips, evidence of Los Angeles-based gang activity in the Nashville Metropolitan Area dates back to 1994, with the discovery of the body a former Los Angeles Parks employee, who became a drug-dealer, in Cheatham County.[1]

One of the earlier nationwide street-gangs to settle in Nashville, the East Nashville Crips maintained ties with the original Rollin' 90s Crips in Los Angeles, as Jamal Shakir used Nashville as a hub for his drug trafficking empire, which spanned nationwide and covered at least three other major cities (Los Angeles, California, Memphis, Tennessee, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma). In addition, the East Nashville Crips members have also been linked to or convicted of drug trafficking in the Nashville Area. Enforcer Donnell Young was sentenced to life in prison in 2009, yet the organization continues to grow. In 2010, two East Nashville Crips gang members were shot and killed at the J C Napier Homes in the Woodland in Waverly neighborhood across the river from Nashville's East End neighborhood. The MNPD speculates the growth of the East Nashville Crips/Rollin 90s Crips to have expanded to south Nashville, in the Antioch area, the North Nashville area (such as Buena Vista Heights), as well as the Madison area of Nashville.[1][3]