FORT PIERCE — Shelitta Woods calls the past six months “miserable.”

“You got to understand, it’d been like 13, 14 years before I had another child,” Woods said. “It was just me and Lil’ Bo, just me and Lil’ Bo, everywhere I go, me and Lil’ Bo.”

Woods’ 16-year-old son, Torenda “Lil’ Bo” Youngblood Jr., was fatally shot at his bus stop March 9, two days after Demetrius Wells, 18, sustained fatal wounds in a drive-by shooting. Two men also were hit by gunfire during separate shootings between the homicides. (more…)

Harry Lee Cooper Jr.

But authorities are asking the public’s help to find another two men they’ve linked to a gang operating in the city for more than a decade: Harry Lee Cooper Jr., 24, and Willie Works Jr., 22.

Police announced the arrests on Thursday, saying that investigators for the first time charged three men with threatening victims to help protect a gang leader.

Willie Works Jr.

From jail Childress had been directing orders to Oliver Bell, 21; Childress’s 24-year-old girlfriend Krysty Bradley; Henry Housing, 34; Yolanda Lampkin, 40; Andravious Pride, 22; and Dujuan Warren, 27, court records show.

“They miss their general,” Childress allegedly told Lampkin during a recorded phone conversation. “The general is got to get back out there.”

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