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Who is Nate Boone Craft and why is he infamous?
And in Detroit, when the demand for drugs grew, multiple gangs sprung up and began vying for control of the supply and distribution of crack cocaine in the city. And all of the demand and money involved in the drug trade, of course, led to a violent and bloody competition between rival gangs who wanted to control the Detroit drug market themselves.
Out of the chaos and devastation of Detroit's crack cocaine epidemic rose a group of young men who would go on to become what some would call street legends in the city, a group known as the Best Friends Gang. And one member of the Best Friends Gang would go down in history as Detroit's most dangerous hitman.
And at one point, the mere mention of his name struck fear in anyone within Detroit's criminal underworld. That man's name was Nathaniel Boone Craft.
Like many black residents who lived in the Jim Crow South during that time period, Nathaniel Boone Craft's family left the abuse and corruption of Mississippi in search of a better opportunity. And they ended up planning their routes on the east side of Detroit. Born in 1957, Boone witnessed the challenges faced by the black community during a time of economic decline.
His family members suffered multiple job losses and the persistent racial tensions in the once prosperous city of Detroit led to a fractured, dysfunctional childhood for him. From an early age, Boone didn't associate with the other neighborhood kids and he considered himself to be somewhat of a loner.
While his mother worked to provide a stable home environment for her children, his father was away in the army and Boone found himself alone. He spent a majority of his time checking out the action happening around his neighborhood. He witnessed his mother and older siblings continuously struggling to make ends meet.
Day after day, they worked full-time jobs, leaving early in the morning and returning home late in the day, tired, beat, and with only a small amount of pay. Boone knew from an early age that he didn't want that life, and instead, he used his free time to observe the others around him, to see how they moved. how they operated, and how they made their money.
At just nine years old, Boone would sit outside on his front porch with a friend named Germ, and the two would watch the comings and goings of a local drug house across the street. In his mind, Boone knew that the people there were making money inside of the house, and from a young age, he wanted a piece of that pie.
I started when I was nine years old. I was a watching the neighborhood, seeing what was going on. Even though if you hear from my sister, she gonna say I was seven. No, I just, I just never associated with anyone. Even though I was a kid, I wouldn't associate with none of the other kids or nothing because she went there playing in the mud and dirty and I was always a clean kid.
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