The Baccwest ETG Crips was a set of the Crips street gang in Baltimore, Maryland, affiliated with the Eight Tray Gangster Crips. The set was founded by Trayvon Hall in 2013 with the blessing of Eight Tray OG "Big Menace", and was shut down by the Baltimore Police Department in 2020 after the police seized Hall's phone and used his gang's group chat as evidence for an indictment against ten Baccwest members.
At the time of Baccwest's foundation, Baltimore was the third-deadliest city in the United States. Baltimore was one of many places to develop gang affiliations in its neighborhoods as the Bloods, Crips, and Hoovers established franchises outside Los Angeles, but Baltimore's criminals rejected the concept of rank, including the seniority of OGs and the transferral of gang rivalries across state lines. Trayvon "G-Tru" Hall, who was raised on the dangerous corner of North Hilton and West Baltimore, sought to found his own crew to take over the block, and, as the Hoovers already existed in his city, he reached out to the Eight Tray via New York City set leader Biz and Los Angeles leader Big Menace. Hall befriended Big Menace, agreeing with his emphasis on the use of force and fear to assert dominance, and, in 2013, Big Menace authorized Hall to recruit a gang. By 2015, Hall had formed 5 ETG neighborhoods, including the Baccwest Clique in his hometown. In the spring of 2016, he posted members of his gang at the Sunoco on Hilton and the Lexington Terrace projects, angering the city's dominant gang, the Black Guerrilla Family, which claimed all of the same corners as Eight Tray. In May 2016, Hall demanded that members of his gang send him pictures of BGF members to assemble a hit list. The gang targeted the West Baltimore BGF's most feared members, Shyheim Brown and Albert Pittman; on 18 May 2016, Daran Hickman, Alvin Johnson, Keith Pinson, and Marcus Williams were sent to take out their targets. When the team failed to kill their targets due to concerns about collateral damage, and failed in their June 2016 hit attempt on the two BGF members, Hall decided to take matters into his own hands after a month of his gang's inactivity. On 18 July 2016, Hall killed Pittman outside his apartment on Midline Road in East Baltimore (Nutty North Side Crips turf). After a few months of inactivity, Hall grew frustrated with his gang, but he was unable to fire all of them as the ETG leadership advised. Four months later, on 11 November 2016, Hall killed Brown in front of the Lexington Terrace food mart. The gang laid low for three and a half months, but, after ETG member David Jackson accidentally shot himself on 25 February 2017, Hall warned his group members to swing the hammer if they wanted to continue being gang members. When the group made excuses, Hall recruited Deontae Emmons and Maurice Finney to the gang, and, on 14 July 2017, the wild Emmons killed BGF Abington Crew member Christopher Hockaday in an altercation across the street from the Sunoco, as he had demanded that Hockaday leave the area and Hockaday refused. This shooting at the middle-ground led to the Abington Crew having their revenge; on 17 July 2017, BGF member Cortez Weaver executed Finney at the Sunoco, cutting Hall deep. The next day, Hall demanded that the group claim three BGF lives out of vengeance, but the gang once again delayed for a month. On 12 August, Hall vowed to avenge his best friend, and, at 10 PM, he killed veteran BGF criminal Theron McClary in front of a liquor store on Abington territory. 11 months went by without any action taking place, so, on 6 July 2018, Hall once again took it upon himself to attack the Abington Boys as they played dice outside the liquor store. Hall killed Stephen McKnight in a drive-by while using the same gun, catching the police's attention. Shortly after, West Coast ETG leader Paco Diamonds advised Hall to "DP" inactive member Ronnie Finney, and, when Finney refused to oblige, Hall was unable to persuade Ridgley Shipley or any other gang members punish Finney. By the spring of 2019, only Emmons and Hall were active gang members. On 4 March 2019, Emmons killed BGF affiliate Tywin Smith after confronting him about his affiliation, and he posted a photo of Smith to social media to brag about the murder. However, Shipley decided to step up in May 2019 by punishing Nutty North Side over its territorial disputes with Baccwest. On 25 May, Shipley and Hall drove to East Baltimore to look for North Side members, and they killed Darrell Fordham on North Side turf. This led to every other ETG set turn against Baccwest, which was never to be trusted again. In July 2019, Hall dissassociated himself from Emmons for telling his girlfriend about all of the gang's crimes, leaving him unprotected; on 23 May 2020, Emmons was found dead outside the Collins Food Market in the heart of BGF territory. At the same time, Hall's social media caught the attention of Baltimore police, who seized his phone, found the gang's group chat, and used it to imprison all of the gang's members. On 7 October 2020, Trayvon "G-Tru" Hall, Ronnie "Fin" Finney, Donnell "Fuss" Foster, Daran "Chizzle" Hickman, David "Dev" Jackson, Alvin "Jug" Johnson, Keith "Gotti" Pinson, Devon "Smuppy" Powell, Ridgley "Crazy" Shipley, and Marcus "Gangsta C" Williams were indicted; Hall was sentenced to 37 years, Shipley to 15 years, Williams to 7.25 years, and the other members to unspecified sentences.