

“This God, He's all powerful and He loves you. Jon’s anger and hatred was also directed at God, who he was convinced had given him a raw deal. I would see all this, and I would just hold it all in.” "It just makes you feel like nobody even cares about you, ‘Why am I even here? Am I just here to be somebody's play toy?’ I developed a lot of hate for my family. At five years old, Jon was molested by a relative. Growing up in Sacramento, California, he was the son of a meth-addicted mother and an alcoholic father. Jon’s idea of who he wanted to be started in childhood. “Everybody yearns for family or just have somebody to love you, right? And I didn't have that at home, so I got that with my homeboys.” What he was, was an angry young man who refused to admit what he really needed. The drug use and selling drugs, it turns you into this guy that you think you want to be.” You got the cars, you got the women, you got everything. “You're always the one flashing the money. He had achieved his goal – the tough guy – the man who had it all.

Violence, drugs, women, I mean, all of that, all of the above.” By the time he was fifteen, Jon Suliven had dropped out of school and was doing life on his own. “My day-to-day life was a party and partying to me was getting into it.
