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David Davila, 18, posses for a portrait next to a grim reaper statue (which signifies the gang Muetos that he a member of) in his friend's room in Hawthorne, CA, which is just outside Los Angeles city limits. Davilla has been part of the Muertos 13 (dead) gang since he was 12 and he has also been in and out of juvenile detention camps since the same age. Davilla has a "scandalous freak" tattoo on his chest, which members of that particular click or sub group of Muertos 13 often get. They often use the plural version of the phrase in representing their click, but he used the singular to separate himself from his fellow gang members and to be his own person. In the last six months he decided to change his life by getting an honest job, along with trying to obey the law. (KEYSTONE/CAVAN IMAGES/Justin Maxon)