But minutes later, in response to similar questions, O’Gorman grabbed my notebook out of my hand and walked away. What, you ask, are two grown men who have decent jobs and don’t live in the area doing gangbanging? “It’s kind of weird, huh?” Torres said. On Wednesday, the two men arrived on their “turf” in a work truck with the name of a large air-conditioning company painted on it. Neither of the two men who agreed to speak for the gang - 32-year-old Jonathan O’Gorman (yes, his father is Irish) and 22-year-old Noe Torres (no, his father isn’t) - live in the neighborhood. Of its 100 documented members, only about 20 live in the 12-block sliver of the Harbor Gateway district they claim as their own. DON’T BE fooled by its name: The 204th Street gang, two of whose members have been arrested in connection with last month’s racially motivated slaying of 14-year-old Cheryl Green, is what you could call a commuter gang.
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