* I am sure there are more gang killings in 1953, but this is all I know currently. More will be added as they are found. * Feb.17, 2019
Jan.2, 1953 – Floyd Pryor, Eugene Vanderveer, William Martin, Walter Watkins, Frank Tribble and Curtis Simmons, all members of a Bedford-Stuyvesant gang called the El Mambo Reys, beat and stab Eleazar Collins to death. Collins was a member of the rival El Quintos.
Jul.3, 1953 – Bernard Rodman, Claude Phillips and Rudolph Murdough, members of the Chaplains from Bedford-Stuyvesant shot and killed Luther Gibson of the Bishops with a .45 caliber Army automatic pistol.