The Asian Boyz, or ABZ, are an Asian American street gang formed in the 1970s, according to the FBI, or founded by Filipino American
Marvin "Shy Boy" Mercado in the 1990s in Southern California, according to Huffington Post. Gang members are mainly males of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Korean, Laotians African-Americanand Filipino descent. The gang are allied with the Crips. They are active in 14 states, in 28 different cities in the U.S. The Asian Boyz was formed in Long Beach due to Asian immigrants being harassed by the East Side Longos, a Mexican American gang that originated from Anaheim Street.
On the East Coast, their gang color are black. Asian Boyz also have a tattoo of a dragon head with crystal globes. On the West Coast, they use blue, similar to the Crips.
Asian Boyz Crips, also known as AB26,1226 or ABZ is a Asian-American Crip set, their main occupation is drug trafficking, robbery, assault, burglary, theft and homicide. The members of ABZ will usually be seen around the corner of 54th and Franklin Avenue, at the east side of Los Santos. The number 1226 stands for "1 Life 2 Live, 26 to Die",
The asian families immigrating to the US and aren't able to find a stable job to support their family usually generates children that are desperate for money and therefore starts to sell drugs for the senior members of the ABZ at the corner of 54th and Franklin Avenue.
Justin Lingxin, Timothy Nhaep grew up together in the same neighbourhood at the East side of Los Santos. They started to run with the Asain Boys Crips at the age of ten years and there they meet Henry Ozawa who also was very young. They sold drugs together for the set and skipped a lot of hours in school to keep their business running on the streets. When they were about 15 years old the current leader of the set decided that they were ready to move up in the world, and they became official members.
After a couple of years of proving themself over and over again to keep the respect they earned and never achieving anything within the gang, they decided at the age of 20 years old to overthrow their leader and take over the set. Their plan was a success with the deaths of the current O.G's they managed to become to leaders of the Asian Boys Crips. Ever since that they've ran the set with their own Ideas.