It was no great surprise when shotgun blasts shattered the silence of a working-class neighborhood on Salt Lake City's west side in February. In a ritual common to many urban areas, residents gawked at the splintered windows of the targeted house, thanked God nobody was hurt, cursed the shootings that threaten their safety-and then got on with their lives. Even in devout, pastoral Utah, they're getting used to gang violence. But they don't have ordinary gangs. Investigators think the blasts were aimed at relatives of a young Pacific Islander who police believe founded the Utah Tongan Crip Gangsters, the state's dominant Polynesian gang.
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