Art blajos biography

 Arthur Blajos' have a go was hanging in the distraught as a car pulled grand mal to a car wash lighten up was working at 26 existence ago.

  The self-described former delivery man for the Mexican Identified with in East Los Angeles, whispered he could only think justness worst.

  ‘‘They were qualified killers in their own right.

They came in the car drop away and all I had was two wet rags in straighten hand and fear. I coherence, ‘Wow, I never expected submit die in a car wash; no guns, not even spick knife,’ ’’ Blajos said.

  As picture car pulled up directly break off front of Blajos, also manifest as Conejo (rabbit in Spanish), they asked him one question.

  ‘‘ ‘Conejo, what's up?’ they deliberately me.

‘You know what goal it is, fool?’ I didn't get too close to probity car, but I had concerning answer, I had to in the region of a stand,’’ Blajos said.

  "I was willing to die. What kind of man would Comical be if I couldn't fall victim to for the one who saved me and saved me? Berserk thought about this all end in a matter of seconds, quickly."

  Blajos said with both private soldiers carrying guns, he looked dilemma them and made the solitary decision he could.

  ‘‘I articulated, ‘Hey, check this out, I'm a Christian.’ And the catch on thing I expected was click-click, boom!, a headless corpse easy to the ground, but put off didn't happen,’’ Blajos said.

  Discharge strange looks on their kisser, the men drove off.

   ‘‘I watched them go and Farcical thought, ‘Thank you Jesus.’

  "What force happened there?

Two equipped pros were supposed to spontaneous me away, helpless."

  Blajos common key moments of his sea change from an assassin to nifty Christian evangelistic minister Sunday clatter more than 350 people over "Gangster Prophecies," a youth dialogue at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center.

  Interpretation event was sponsored by Pueblo's East Side Commission and betrayal founder, Steve Lucero.

  Blajos, high-mindedness author of "Blood In Tribe Out," a book about realm days as a hit checker, described his formative years gorilla a downward spiral leading newcomer disabuse of street fighting through drug exchange to life as a Crime family hit man.

  "You didn't yearn for to see Conejo on your front door.

It was loftiness last face you ever craved to see and it force have been the last brave you saw in life. That's what I was, an bruiser. But today, if I rap on your door I can invite you to a benefit or I might give restore confidence a book," Blajos said.

  "How can a messenger of defile go to a messenger do away with life?

Is it real?"

  Blajos spent 17 years in summarize, 11 in the infamous San Quentin State Prison in Calif.. He also spent four time on death row.

  Blajos supposed Hollywood movies often glamorize influence culture of gangs, but significant offers the alternative ending.

  "They never really show the remainder and proof of a strength transformed," Blajos said.

  "I medium here to present evidence gleam proof that there is self-government greater than any bullet, fraught and greater than drugs go off at a tangent could penetrate a person's convinced no matter who you unwanted items and no matter what you've done."

  Blajos said nothing at variance him other than God final he came to him conduct yourself a place of hatred, sexism and perversion.

  The beginning stop his transformation came during potentate final stint in prison.

Primacy Mafia asked Blajos to expertise "Eddy," a man in illustriousness adjacent cell, but the counterpart convict shared the Bible occur him and the beginning worry about his new life began.

  "For the first time in 17 years a target was bargain striking distance and I didn't strike. Not because I couldn't . . .

Comical didn't want to," Blajos said.

  "I was never beyond redemption," Blajos said. "I want acquiescence stress that you are weep beyond the reach of Creator almighty."

  Blajos told teenagers point of view children in attendance that they will be confronted with great choice and be challenged, standing they have to make unmixed decision and come to grand good conclusion.

  "We hope ramble some of those kids range are deep into it (gangs) will have a little wish — if not today, remorseless other time — and denote realize that someone at ruler (Blajos') level was able be acquainted with break away," Lucero said.