PHOTO: Shaquon "Young Pappy" Thomas in an image from a YouTube video
The video call came in as he headed to school. The "opps" — rival gang members — let the teen know they had just seen his "boy" and that he had run away.
"What you on?" challenged the caller, using street slang to ask if the teen would also flee. If they came for him, the teen promised, he wouldn't run.
Later that afternoon, they came gunning down the South Side block claimed by the rival faction. The teen was grazed by a bullet before anyone in his gang could get off a shot.
It was traditional gangbanging — only arranged in the instantaneous tech world where a taunt is just a click away. Called Internet-banging or cyber-banging by experts, young gang members are increasingly going online with postings and videos to threaten rivals, Chicago police say.
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