A fight between rival gangs led to the death of a 20-year-old man at a festival in southwest Fresno in May, according to search warrant documents made public Friday in Fresno County Superior Court.

Yer Yang was beaten to death about 1:35 p.m. May 29 at the Fresno Regional Sport Complex on West Jensen Avenue, where families were attending the Lao Family Water Festival, police said.

Yang was a founding member of the Purple Brothers street gang, according to a court affidavit by Fresno police detective Todd Fraizer.

He and about a dozen other Purple Brothers members and associates were at the festival when they were confronted by members of the Men of Destruction street gang.

A fight broke out, and rival gang members cornered Yang behind a wall and kicked and beat him, knocking him unconscious, the sworn affidavit said.

The gang members ran when a city employee said she was calling police.

Yang was later pronounced dead at Community Regional Medical Center. A coroner's report said he died of blunt force trauma to his head.

Fraizer wrote the affidavit to get a warrant to search Yang's MySpace account on the Internet.

The affidavit said Yang and a member of the rival gang began exchanging threats on the Internet around May 10.

Two weeks after Yang's death, the rival mentioned the beating on the social-networking Web site, Fraizer said.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/07/09/2000917/gang-dispute-cited-in-death-at.html

You live by the sword , you die by the sword..  Where was his Gang buddies to help back him up at the festival??  So much for your fellow buddies..  He would have had better odds going into the armed forces..

Gangs need to have better manners than that. Why always ruining festivities and gatherings that are supposed to be happy times?

See, people was right that he was a gangster! His families were trying to cover up that he not a gangster or something.  

TRUE!

Laib tsis paub ntshai kev tuag........!   Cov me nyuam alib lawv hais tias lawv txog twg lawv yeej ev rawv lawv lub hleb Casket nrog lawv vim tsis paub yauv tuag minute twg li...  Txoj kev tuag me nyuam laib tsis ntshai hlo.

hmm...that doesn't make any sense...PB's and MOD's are brothers literally...ei ther this is something new or  the report is mistaken. PB's in Cali? Unless they were visiting I ain't never heard of that.

edit: unless he was like 2 years old when he founded PB he wasn't a founding member lol

yes i agree totally but the damn po po's won't just let them do their thing

wow, its gotten to the point where Ghetto hmong people are gang bangin online...myspa ce!  Lolzs

I wanna see the link 

cov tub hluas no tsis nco tias lub neej nyob ntiaj teb no yog ib ntsais muag xwb. lwm yam hloov tau tag. txoj siab yeej tsis muaj hnub tau li. thov mus ua kom niam thiab txiv qhuas; txhob ua kom luag ntshai os mog.

I hate to say this but the family should sue lao family for not having security there.

Can't believe ppl are still throwing things like this without cops.

First of all, I hate all the Hmong so call Non-Profile organization using our “Hmong” name to the communities when we all know they pocketing almost of the money they make from all the events.

Secondly, they always promote as cheaply as they can and forget the important part like PROVIDE TIGHT SECRUITY, not just two, not just three but “any number” that will suit the event.

Third, it’s sad to see, heard, or knows that another Hmong brother got kill by other Hmong brother. 

hmong people should really start to provide tight secruity next time.... when all their sons are part of a gang group.

Where's the link to this article. Sounds fanciful

OVER!