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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — This week's fatal shooting of a gang member by a U.S. marshal inside Salt Lake City's federal courthouse during the man's trial has put the spotlight on his relatively unknown street gang.
Authorities say the 25-year-old Siale Angilau was a member of the city's "Tongan Crip Gang." Gang experts say it is comprised of young men of Tongan, Samoan and other Pacific Island descent who have been pulling off robberies and assaults since the late 1980s in the Salt Lake City area following a model set by a gang established years earlier in Inglewood, Calif.
The gang ascribes to the "Crip" culture, wearing blue and viewing "Bloods" as rivals.
The FBI reports in its most recent gang assessment of 2011 that the gang has a presence in Utah, California and Alaska.
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