In their fight to dominate Detroit’s cocaine trade a quarter — plus century ago, the lethal Best Friends gang not only terrorized their community but went to war against rival drug dealers, too.

Law enforcement officials said that the gang murdered as many as 80 people in the late eighties to early nineties, resulting in comparisons to Murder Inc., the legendary Prohibition — era mafioso death squad. In the chaos of the crack frenzy that gripped inner — city Detroit, the Best Friends were recognized as stone — cold killers who took what they wanted and murdered anyone who got in their way.

The crew — led by brothers Reginald “Rocking Reggie,” Terrance “Boogaloo,” Gregory “Ghost,” and Ezra “Wizard” Brown — started out as... Read More