Deck II

In January of 2005, Andres Raya, a decorated but AWOL marine did something terrible in his hometown of Ceres, California. Whether what Mr. Raya did was the result of PTSD and a young man whose experiences in Iraq were terrible enough that he chose to die at home, or a cocaine fueled rampage by a gangbanging thug, we almost certainly will never know. However we do know that something terrible and tragic happened leaving Mr. Raya dead, along with Police Sgt. Howard Stevenson.

Mouthpieces were quick to jump in from all sides, the right, the left, and stranger places, and the Ceres police launched an initiative to crack down on the Norteños street gang which incited complaints of racism from the community.