Article: JOHNSON: Rev. Kelly hopes gang violence finally over.(News)

Byline: Bill Johnson, Rocky Mountain News

Come this morning, he will learn if it was all worth it - the weeklong pleading and reasoning in dozens of clandestine meetings that, whatever the result, always ended with his signature bear hug.

The funeral for Michael Asberry, co-founder of the Crips street gang in Denver, is scheduled for 10 a.m. today, a service that hundreds are expected to attend. It will be the first test of whether Rev. Leon Kelly's work this past week has been effective.

He has just returned from yet another session with senior members of the Rollin' 30s Crips street gang - Michael Asberry was a founder 22 years ago - to put the final details on ...

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