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Lewis Carl Lopez is most commonly known for his role in American society as a criminal and one of the founding fathers of a notorious street gang, known widely across the state of Texas as the Elmgrove Gangsters (E.G.G.). He is also known for his many poetic literary contributions to several major and non-major websites. His poetry consists mainly of his experiences with gangs and jail, and are meant to inform adolescents of the harsh reality of leading a criminal life. He is also one of the primary causes of Seguin, TX having the highest pregnancy rate in Texas, from 2001 to 2008.
[edit] Origins
Lewis Carl Lopez was born in Bradenton, FL on October 18, 1988. His mother and father were Karla and Victor Lopez, his mother being of irish and german origins and his father being mexican. Lewis also had 3 siblings, one siter he had grown up with named Stephanie Lopez and another half brother and half sister he had never met due to his fathers previous marriage. His parents soon after moved him to Erie, PA where his spent the majority of his childhood until the age of 13, after his father was released for his third time from a Pennsylvania state prison, when his mother had decided to move the family to Seguin, Texas.
[edit] History
Growing up in Erie, Pennsylvania, Lewis had a considerably poor and hazardous beginning. In fact for some time he and his family lived in a shelter because his father kept spending their money on alcohol and drugs. Eventually they moved into a house next door to his grandmother Joann Tracy. He was raised in a very poor rural area surrounded with gangsters, drug dealers and addicts, violence, and racism towards whites, even though he himself was half irish and german. His family though were the only mexicans that lived in the area, the rest being black, puerto rican, and bosnian(europoean). In 4th grade year to his sixth grade year he attended an "all black" catholic community charter school. It was the closest and believed to be the least violent school in his area, which was not the case. As a child he grew up with few father figures, and the ones available were either drug dealers, drug addicts, or hardened criminals. His father, Victor Manuel Lopez, was an abusive alcoholic who was sent to prison on several seperate occassions for domestic violence(spousal abuse) and driving while intoxicated. His father later died from an overdose of alcohol and morphine at the age of forty. The two most recognizable men as father figures in Lewis's life were Carl Tracy and Timothy Tracy, his uncles on his mothers side. His uncle Carl did seven years in prison and was a widely known drug addict. Yet Lewis adored this man for the shear fact he was there when he could be and that he loved Lewis like a son. His other Uncle Tim on the other hand dealt with many drugs such as marijauna and cocaine. He was one the most prominent drug dealers in all of Erie during the early and late 90's. Tim was one of Lewis's primary caregivers besides his mother and grandmother up until the age of thirteen when his family moved to Seguin, TX. Lewis's mother Karla wanted to find a new a better life for her children by moving in with her mother-in-law Carmen Macias. Lewis's grandmother Carmen did not share the same last name as her son Victor because she remarried after the suicide of her first husband Manuel Lopez. Manuel Lopez had sent for all his children to meet him in the fields, and when they all arrived he aimed a shotgun towards his face, and pulled the trigger. Carmen Lopez had remarried years after to Chago Macias. Karla and Victor had many problems living with his mother and soon after moved into a one room apartment with their two children. This is the turning point of Lewis's life, for he was growing up could no longer take his fathers alcohol and abuse. He had angered his father and in turn was slapped across the face, after which Lewis had decided to run away. Hours after he had been gone his father found him at a local baseball park and asked him to come home, but the damage had been done. Eventually they again moved to a trailer park in the countryside, where it seemed life had gotten even harder. His father become more irritable and more drunk. His mother more depressed and scared. Lewis had started acting up in school and disobeying his parents and the law to try and get somewhere else other than his homelife. So, with the help of his friend Ted Moseleys' family he had left his home and moved in with Ted. This would not be the last time Lewis called upon the Moseley family for help. While living with his companion Ted he had done better and felt better but that would soon end. For three months Lewis resided in the Moseley household until one morning in February around 5 a.m. his mother had come pounding on the door. Lewis arose from his bed and went into the living area where his and Teds' mothers were crying. His father had been found dead in someones lawn, from an overdose.Soon after, Lewis felt obliged to move back in with his mother and sister to be there for emotional support, but that wasn't the case. He moved in but there was much hatred and tension in the air. He did not enjoy the company of his his family. He hated them. He hated his mother for her lack of confidence and her false sense of morality and for her inability to leave his father long before he died. He hated his sister for the things that never happened to her. She was never beaten by her father, for is she was ever to be punished then it was Lewis who was beaten instead. He constantly argued and fought with them until one day he beat his mothers car with a bat. She in turn turn called the police which was the beginning of Lewis's criminal history.As a juvenile Lewis had contracted one felony and six misdemeanors. As an adult he has 2 felonies and four misdemeanors.
[edit] Sources
one of the many poems by Lewis C. Lopez http://gangsandkids.com/gstory.html#whoareyou
check here for more by Lewis C. Lopez http://poemhunter.com/search/?q=Lewis+C.+Lopez&Submit=Find&w=poet
Criminal Search Records for Lewis C. Lopez http://www.co.guadalupe.tx.us/judicialsearch/Scripts/UVlink.isa/guad_cj/WEBSERV/CriminalSearch
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