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Duke

A.k.a. Gustavo Gonzalez

On January the 28th 1999 Gustavo Gonzalez was shot in the neck just outside Tommy's. Gustavo, Jacken, TRT, Soda, Sporty, Crow, Silent (the whole The Psycho Realm group) was having fun in the city at night. The group split up later in the evening and Soda, Silent and Duke went to Tommy's to get some hamburgers. While Duke was inside a rest room two "tough guys" were looking for battles that evening and walked towards Soda and Silent. Duke came out to his friends to find out what the problem was, and suddenly the smaller of the two tough guys grapped his gun pointing at Duke. Duke wasn't afraid of that, he just looked at the little bad guy and then ignored him, but a pair of seconds after he shot Duke in the neck. The bullet entered through the right side of the neck, then forced its way to the lower back of his neck, ending up between the "L" an "O" of his "Los Angeles" tattoo. It hit both a main artery and his spinal cord, so from that time Gustavo Gonzalez was paralyzed for life. Gustavo's brother, Jack Gonzalez, has written the whole story of the episode, so please read it on their homepage. It's to find at News, called A War Story. There's also posted a description from MTV.

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