Goonie Gang terrorized Englewood with 3 shootouts a day, boasted on Facebook, feds say

Powell’s Barbershop, 1139 W. 63rd St., where authorities say the Goonie Gang killed Gerald Sias while gunning for a rival. The shop was featured in a scene in the Spike Lee movie “Chi-Raq.” Prosecutors say the gang was hungry for attention, bragging often on Facebook about violence and even making “Goonie Gang” T-shirts. (Sun-Times file)

The Goonie Gang sounds like an after-school club for little kids, but it really was a vicious criminal organization involved in three shootouts a day on the South Side during the summer of 2016, federal prosecutors say.

The small group, also known as the Goonie Boss gang, spread “terror and mayhem” through Englewood from 2014 to 2018, when four reputed members were indicted in a racketeering case, according to prosecutors.