“We have a purple thirty s in pursuit on Lituanica Avenue, a purple thirty s in pursuit on Lituanica Avenue.” Charles and Robert had gotten used to hearing this over the big and bulky, police radios on the way home. This meant that there was a gang-related homicide shooting. In the early twentieth century Chicago, Illinois a mafia was on the rise. The leader of this mafia, the Chicago Outfit, was none other than John Torrio, an Italian man. Although Charles and Robert were only seventeen years old, they had witnessed over thirty gang-related crimes. This was due to the rise of the Chicago Outfit, a rising gang that played the main part in bloody gang wars and the illegal distribution of alcohol. With the Chicago Outfit on the rise, Charles …show more content…
When he walked into his house, his mother was waiting for Charles to tell him what really happened to Robert. As soon as Charles saw his mother, he started crying and told her that he saw Robert’s blood all around his house. When Charles finally got it out in a whispery voice, his Mother told Charles that he was affiliated with the Chicago Outfit and that the rival North-Side gang killed him as a way to show power to John Torrio, the leader of the Chicago Outfit. Charles did not understand how Robert could do that to him and Robert’s family. He instantly became furious about how Robert decided to live his life because he knew that Robert could have done better than that. Charles knew that Robert was no better than the racial stereotype of a young Negro man of the nineteen-twenties now because he was in a gang and died due to being affiliated with one. Charles knew that he could never do what Robert did and make the racial stereotype true by joining a gang. He also knew that he could not let his Mother let alone his family like that. But a couple of weeks after Robert’s death Charles was contacted by John Torrio, the leader of the Chicago Outfit. John Torrio wanted Charles to join the Chicago Outfit because he wanted to get back at the North-Side gang for killing Robert. Charles knew that he should not join the Chicago Outfit, but the idea of sweet revenge for Robert’s death sounded so