Mary Pember: Native Mob a scourge to Indian communities

Monday, March 12, 2012  

"In the winter of 2010, Jeremee Jon Kraskey called his mother to say, “Mom, you are no longer my family. I have a new family. I am part of the Native Mob now.”

Crystal Goose, of the Leech Lake Ojibwe tribe, was shocked. “He made me cry,” she recalls.

Less than a year later, on February 26, 2011, Kraskey’s body was found in an alley in South Minneapolis, with two bullet-holes in his hip and one in his forehead; it was an execution-style murder, and police have unofficially told her that his murder was related to his gang activity. He was 32. “He was such a bright, shining star,” Goose says. “People still tell me they miss him so much.” She adds that the thought of her only child dying alone in the snow has been the hardest part of losing him."

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Native Mob: A Scourge in Minnesota Plagues Indian Communities (Indian Country Today 3/12)