These gun-slinging dropouts were fighting over drug turf.
If there was no drug problem, there would be no drug turf to fight over: therefore no guns necessary.
I heard a rumor the shoes had something to do with marking drug turf, but I've seen them all over the city.
During a 72-hour period, the police received more than 300 reports of gunshots in a battle over drug turf.
Theories and rumors range from a battle for drug turf to an insult in a bar.
The Price Neighborhoods Held Hostage The gangs know drug turf is precious.
Some had been between good and bad, but most involved young men taking out their brethren over drug turf, women or just because.
The connection is often more subtle than a scrap over drug turf.
The Kiolya muscled in on the walrus hunting grounds like a street gang taking over new drug turf.
New York City faces another summer when teen-agers armed literally for war shoot up neighborhoods in defense of drug turf or adolescent pride.