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Blog - #TeamBoutDat meets Ex Balitmore Gangster Ted Sutton

Along with Craig (Real Action) and Nathan (Go Gettaz) I had the opportunity to chop it up with Ted here's some info on who he is, where he's come from and where he's trying to go. -Fonz THE BALTIMORE EX-GANGSTER Ted Sutton says gangster life in Baltimore is worse than on TV Ted Sutton joined a gang at the age of 14 and for the next decade watched people around him die in some of Baltimore's roughest districts. He said: "I got caught up with a rough crowd, I started carrying a gun, then a sawn-off shotgun. I felt I belonged but I didn't know the price you paid for life on the streets. "I got into my early 20s - then bad things started to happen all around me. My best friend died in my arms, he was gunned down. Another friend got a life sentence plus 20 years in prison. He'll never be out. "My other friend was paralyzed from the neck down by a bullet. Someone else got through $175,000 of ...