Santa Monica 13 or SMG is a Mexican-American street gang located in Santa Monica, California, United States. They reside mainly in the Pico neighborhood. Even though Santa Monica 13 is a Sureño gang, they wear their traditional black bandanas. The acronym SM17 refers to Santa Monica 17th Street, which is the gang's primary subset or "clique".

The Santa Monica 13 (SMG), also known as Santa Monica Trece or SMG (for Santa Monica Gang), are a Chicano street gang based in the Pico neighborhood of Santa Monica, California. They are mostly known for their decades-old rivalries with neighboring gangs in Santa Monica, Venice, Culver City, and West Los Angeles.

Santa Monica 13 is a Mexican-American street gang from Santa Monica, California that was founded in the late 1920s. The gang gave birth to all of the surrounding Hispanic gangs on the Westside, and it would become known for its violent ways after the creation of the Mexican Mafia during the 1950s.

Mar 2, 2025 · The Santa Monica 13, also known as SMG and SM13, is a Mexican American Sureño gang that has been implicated in murder, drug trafficking, and robbery. SM13 originates from 13th Street and is active in the Pico district in Santa Monica.

Jan 9, 2014 · A 25-year-old man convicted of murdering two people in Santa Monica during attempts as a teenager to gun down rival gang members was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility...

Jun 26, 2008 · The Santa Monica 13 gang has its rivalries as well. In the late '90s, it was the target of the Culver City Boyz. On October 27, 1998, four people were shot, two of them fatally, at a street clothing store called Westside on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica.

Nov 26, 2024 · Santa Monica 13 or SMG is a MexicanAmerican street gang located in Santa Monica, California (US). They reside mainly in the Pico Neighborhood of Santa Monica, which is said to be one of the last remaining ghettos of the Westside.

Santa Monica (Spanish for 'Saint Monica'; Spanish: Santa Mónica) is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 U.S. census population was 93,076.

Santa Monica 13 also known as SMX3, SMX7, and SM17 (17th St) is a gang formed in the “Far West” of Los Angeles in the 1920’s and is the first gang to originate of the “West Side 4 Corners” which includes Culver City 13, Sotel 13, and Venice 13.

The Sotel 13 and Santa Monica 13 (SM13) are mostly known for their bitter rivalry, despite being Sureños, with ties to the Mexican-Mafia. In 2005, two members of the Santa Monica 13, were murdered by Sotel Gangsters.