MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A federal jury convicted a high-ranking member of a Memphis street gang for his role in the death of a retaliation killing after the gang's leader was killed.

Vincent Grant, 41, of Memphis, also known as “V-Slash,” was convicted on a charge of causing death by use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, that being murder in aid of racketeering.

Prosecutors with the U.S. District Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee say Grant was a high-ranking member of the Unknown Vice Lords, also known as The Ghost Mob, a criminal enterprise that controlled territory in Memphis and beyond.

On Jan. 10, 2019, the Vice Lords Supreme Elite Chief Ronald Terry and his girlfriend were found shot dead in South Memphis. Prosecutors say he was the gang lea

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