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David Barron Corona

David "Popeye" Barron Corona (1963-27 November 1997) was a leader of the Logan Heights Gang of San Francisco during the 1980s and 1990s.

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David Barron Corona was born in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico in 1963, and he was sent to prison at the age of 16 after committing his first murder for the Logan Heights Gang. He joined the Mexican Mafia while in prison, and he befriended fellow prisoner Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, a future leader of the Tijuana Cartel. Upon his release in 1989, he became a bodyguard for the Tijuana Cartel leadership, and he recruited dozens of San Diego gang members to cross the border and become Tijuana gunmen. On 8 November 1992, he rescued the Arellano Felix brothers from the Christine nightclub shootout, and he later aided the brothers with their assassination attempt on Joaquin Guzman Loera in the 1993 Guadalajara International Airport shootout, during which several Logan Heights Gang gunmen assassinated Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo. On 27 November 1997, during an assassination attempt on journalist Jesus Blancornelas, a bullet fired by one of Barron's hitmen accidentally ricocheted and hit Barron in the eye, killing him.

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