By Rick Hampson
USA TODAY
BOSTON — Two hooded strangers walked out of the darkness at the end of the street.
Jahmol Norfleet and his sister Teah, standing in front of their apartment house that night last November, stopped talking. On Holworthy Street, an unfamiliar face could mean danger — even since Jahmol, a leader of the notorious H Block gang, helped arrange a truce four months earlier in the city’s bloodiest street war.
In the 18 months before the truce, about two dozen people were shot. Jahmol himself was an inch from death; there was a crease where the bullet grazed his scalp. After that he took a gun to school, got busted and spent a year in jail. Full Story