As other leaders of the Crips were either murdered or incarcerated ( in 1973 Raymond Washington was arrested for 2nd degree robbery and served five years in prison in Tracy , California and soon after was murdered ; Curtis `` Buddha '' Morrow was shot to death in South Central L.A. on February 23 , 1973 following a petty argument ; Mac Thomas was murdered under mysterious circumstances in the mid-1970s ) Williams was regarded as the leader of the Crips .
Raymond Washington is dead .