DA: After cops killed son, mother uses $5 million settlement to supply guns for teen gang

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5. Taking lessons from Mary Thompson

A woman who served on an anti-gang task force actually organized a gang and sent two members to commit Eugene’s first gang murder, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Mary L. Thompson, 41, of Eugene, is being tried in Lane County Circuit Court for aggravated murder, hindering prosecution and burglary in the Oct. 3, 1994, slaying of Aaron Iturra, 18.

In his opening statement, Assistant District Attorney Steve Skelton said Thompson told police she “went berserk” with anger after learning Iturra told detectives he saw her son with a knife during a fight at a store.

Intent on keeping her son, Beau Flynn, then 16, from going back to a state juvenile detention center, Thompson organized the 74 Hoover Crips. She persuaded two teenagers to take a stolen .38-caliber revolver to Iturra’s home to kill him, Skelton told jurors.



https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/jun/14/mom-behind-gang-killing-prosecutor-says-woman/