flare-up of a long-running conflict among the Conservative Vice Lords, Gangster Disciples and Black P Stones street gangs

Police say a flare-up of a long-running conflict among the Conservative Vice Lords, Gangster Disciples and Black P Stones street gangs is to blame. The battleground centers at Wilson and Broadway near Truman College and a Red Line station.

The gangs 'seem to branch out about a block or two from that epicenter,' said Lt. Robert Stasch, who supervises tactical unit officers in the Town Hall District, which includes Uptown. 'Those conflicts are over turf, they're over profit, over drug areas.'

Last month, several days after the shootings on Magnolia Avenue, police closed an estimated $500,000-a-year narcotics operation in and around Magnolia and Wilson with the arrests of six people alleged to be Black P Stone members."

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