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- Luis Felipe, also known as " King Blood ", is a Cuban-American former gang leader and is the founder of the New York chapter of the Latin Kings (ALKN) street gang.
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Luis Felipe, also known as "King Blood", is a Cuban-American former gang leader and is the founder of the New York chapter of the Latin Kings (ALKN) street gang. Born in Havana, Cuba, Felipe came to the United States in the Mariel Boatlift in 1980.
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Jan 12, 2018 · By the 1980’s, a man named Luis Felipe, aka King Blood, was running the show while in prison for murder. Felipe was introducing young Latino inmates to the idea that Latinos are strong and should be proud of their heritage and he penned a manifesto laying out the rules of what he thought it meant to be a Latin King.
Dec 6, 2021 · Luis Felipe founded the New York chapter of the Latin Kings street gang from prison, orchestrating murders and crimes against his own members.
Mar 15, 1999 · Luis Felipe, AKA King Blood, is the founder and leader of the Latin Kings. Felipe was imprisoned in a New York state prison when he founded the group. Over the years the group grew and Felipe directed their activities from his jail cell.
- 148 F.3d 101 (2nd Cir. 1998)
- 1998
- Court of Appeals
In the early 1980s, to avoid imprisonment for his criminal activities in Chicago, Luis Felipe (a.k.a. King Blood) fled to New York. Soon after arriving in New York, he was arrested and convicted of murdering his girlfriend.
Luis Felipe, also known as "King Blood", is a Cuban-American former gang leader and is the founder of the New York chapter of the Latin Kings (ALKN) street gang. Born in Havana, Cuba, Felipe came to the United States in the Mariel Boatlift in 1980.
The Latin Kings New York chapter, The Bloodline, was founded in 1986 by Luis “King Blood” Felipe, who ran the gang from behind bars for years before he was placed in solitary confinement at a maximum-security prison in Colorado.
