Hoover proclaimed that GD's initials had changed to mean "Growth & Development." A lengthy federal investigation using wiretaps led to Hoover getting another life sentence in 1995.
By early 1993, Hoover claimed to have renounced his violent criminal past and became an urban political celebrity in Chicago. This infuriated members of BGDs and resulted in them changing their name to the "Gangster Disciples." While Hoover was incarcerated, he ran the gang's illicit drug trade both in prison and on the streets, starting from Chicago's West Side and later extending throughout the United States. In 1989, The Black Gangster Disciples started to go against their own merger and ally, the Black Disciples, over a drug-dealing dispute in the neighborhood of Englewood, Chicago, that escalated into a shooting that killed several people. While incarcerated, Hoover helped form the Folk Nation, which added other gangs such as: Black Disciples, Satan Disciples, Ambrose, Two-Two Boys, Gangster Two-Six, Simon City Royals, North Side Insane Popes, La Raza Nation, Spanish Cobras, Imperial Gangsters, Maniac Latin Disciples, Harrison Gents, Spanish Gangster Disciples and Latin Eagles. Under Hoover's rule, the Black Gangster Disciples took over the South Side drug trade. At the time, the group had control of Chicago's South Side. In 1974, after the leader of the Black Disciples, David Barksdale, died from kidney failure by an injury due to an earlier shooting, Hoover took the reins of the Black Gangster Disciples Nation. Hoover was sent to Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois, to serve out his term. In November 1973, Howard and Hoover were both charged with murder and sentenced to 150 to 200 years in prison. On March 16, 1973, Hoover-along with Young's killer, Black Disciple member Andrew Howard-were both arrested. His killing was ordered by Hoover after his name was mentioned as one of three people accused of stealing drugs and money from the gang six days earlier. On the evening of February 26, 1973, William "Pooky" Young, a 19-year-old neighborhood drug dealer, was abducted and later shot to death in an alley near 68th Street and Union Avenue in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. 1.2 Gangster Disciples leader and eventsīiography 1973 murder of William Young.
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