Five members of the group, also called the 13 Crazies, were charged with second-degree murder and gang assault.

Three teenagers were arrested following the incident, the police said, and were charged with gang assault.

The four men, arrested late Wednesday, were all charged with gang assault, the police said.

"I can't understand how one person can be charged in a gang assault," he said.

He was also charged with gang assault and unlawful imprisonment.

A young man had walked up to the crowded street corner and started firing a handgun in what police believe was a gang assault.

The neighborhood watch group would patrol areas that had a large number of gang assaults on homosexual men.

All had been charged with gang assault as a hate crime.

Yes," said Fetzler, "and there will be no need for a gang assault.

"The charge of gang assault against him is hogwash."