WA state: Young, small-town woman shot in the back for disrespecting 'Juggalo family' (followers of Insane Clown Posse entertainment enterprise)

[Emily]

Prosecutors: Winlock park shooter grew tired of ex-girlfriend disrespecting gang
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 9:16 pm
... By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The 20-year-old who grew up in Winlock is being held on $500,000 bail, accused of leaning into the bushes and taking aim with a pistol – from some 50 feet away – at his former girlfriend as she sat alone next to a stream in the woods.
Shyann Gallimore, also 20, was struck in the back with what authorities believe was a 22 caliber bullet.
But it could be as long as two weeks before the round is removed, and examined.
“It ricocheted off something, and lodged in my shoulder,” Gallimore said yesterday.
...
Prosecutors in charging documents allege the suspect told deputies he had become tired of Gallimore disrespecting the “Juggalo family.”
Joseph M. Lowery is charged with attempted first-degree murder.
Prosecutors say he and a 16-year-old boy who was with him that evening admitted they are members of the Juggalo gang. And that on a previous occasion, Lowery had allegedly told the teen if he ever saw Gallimore in “his” woods, he would shoot her.
And that he would “put it on the hatchet,” a Juggalo term meaning promise, according to prosecutors...

http://www.lewiscountysirens.com/?p=32784

Background on Juggalo lawsuit :
http://www.armytimes.com/story/milit...ing-/29272385/

I'd never heard of the Juggalo 'family' or the Insane Clown Posse but they have been in the news a lot.

Sheriff: Man still in critical condition after assault
Vanessa Junkin, DelmarvaNow 9:36 a.m. EDT August 6, 2014
... As the result of a Monday morning assault at the home the suspects and victim shared with others near Hebron, Zachary Swanson suffered from fractures to his nasal area and face, brain bleeding, swelling around his eyes, 11 broken ribs and a liver laceration, charging documents state.
His arm was also cut and burned, charging documents state. Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis said Swanson's arm had to be amputated below the elbow, and Lewis said Tuesday afternoon that Swanson was in critical but stable condition at the Bayview burn unit in Baltimore.
"I can't imagine the pain that the victim went through," Lewis said of the several-hours-long assault.
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A Monday afternoon Sheriff's Office news release stated detectives were looking into the "strong possibility" of an affiliation with the Juggalos, a cult following of the Insane Clown Posse hip-hop duo.
On Tuesday, he said both the suspects and the victim are Juggalos.
"They are followers of the Insane Clown Posse, without question," Lewis said.
...

Lewis said the suspects felt Swanson disrespected the Insane Clown Posse.
"To them, he had to pay the consequences," Lewis said.

http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/new...osse/13639939/

Zachariah D. Fudge, Gang Definitions, How Do They Work?: What the Juggalos Teach Us About the Inadequacy of Current Anti-Gang Law, 97 Marq. L. Rev. 979 (2014).
This is not to say that the National Gang Intelligence Center
manufactured Juggalo-criminality link out of whole cloth.
Individual Juggalos have been implicated in a wide variety of crimes. In
Utah, two Juggalos attempted a kidnapping of a five-year-old boy57 and
two others attempted to murder a man with a battle-axe.58 In
Pennsylvania, two Juggalos were charged with a murder and identified
as part of a “dangerous and growing gang.”59 Twenty-three people were
attacked randomly by Juggalos in a park in Tacoma, Washington.60 In
King County, Washington, a suspected Juggalo shot a couple.61 Also in
Seattle, a Juggalo was accused of stabbing a child who mocked the
group,62 as well as chasing a woman with a samurai sword.63 In Oregon,
two suspected Juggalos were charged with beating and robbing a
homeless man.64 This spate of crimes is proof to some that the Juggalos
form some vast conspiracy, an enormous underground organization of
criminals in clown make-up.65

Juggalo is the eponym for fans of the Detroit-based hip-hop group
Insane Clown Posse (ICP).7 ICP is made up of two men, Joe Bruce
(alias Violent J) and Joey Utsler (alias Shaggy 2 Dope), who formed the
group in 1989.8 To stand out in the crowded early 1990s rap scene, the
pair wore clown makeup and sung about a “Dark Carnival” full of sex
and violence.9 Bruce and Utsler pulled tropes from professional
wrestling, larger than life personas and complex storylines, and applied
them to rap, forming a bizarre sub-genre called horror-rap or
horrorcore.10 Bruce described the Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope
characters as “clowns who murder and kill people who deserve to be
murdered and killed!”11

ICP lyrics frequently contain references to absurd
levels of violence and sexual depravity.16 The violence in ICP’s music is
frequently directed at those who “deserve” it, in Bruce’s words, such as
rednecks, bigots, wife beaters, cheaters, and pedophiles.17
While ICP has earned the enmity of the critical community, major
record labels, MTV, and radio stations have simply ignored the group.18
If the mainstream media is paying attention to ICP and their fans, it is
usually to mock them.19 Despite the apathy (and general hostility) of the
mainstream community, ICP have sold over seven million albums; they
have two platinum and three gold records, no mean feat in an age of
anemic CD sales.20 They make an estimated $10 million a year.21 ICP
established a wrestling league, started their own successful record label,
produced direct-to-video films, and manufactured and sold a litany of
merchandise from baby clothes to energy drinks.22 Recently, the group
starred in a cable television series.23

http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol97/iss4/6/