White supremacist gang leader slain in California prison

A prisoner slain by fellow white inmates at a Northern California prison this week was a founder of Public Enemy Number 1, a white supremacist prison and street gang.

Law enforcement and watchdog groups confirmed Friday that 48-year-old Devlin “Gazoo” Stringfellow helped start the group known as PENI. It is affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.

Prison officials said they don’t know a motive. Experts can’t immediately say if Stringfellow’s alleged killers are gang members. But former gang investigator Matthew Buechner said Stringfellow had been a target of other white supremacists for years.

He was the second high-profile gang leader slain at the maximum security prison east of Sacramento in recent years.

Officials said Stringfellow was repeatedly stabbed by two fellow inmates at Folsom’s maximum-security prison.

He’d served repeated prison terms since 1991.