Street Demonz

The Street Demonz was the name of a street gang that operated out of Gotham City. They are most widely recognized for their involvement in the Fever drug market. The Ventriloquist and Scarface had originally taken over the drug trade in Gotham and had began distributing the designer drug “Fever.” But Ventriloquist was locked up in Blackgate Penitentiary for a time afterwards. When he was released, he found out that his territory had been taken by the Street Demonz,who had wrestled it away from the Ventriloquist's gang. They took Scarface, shot him, and threw him away. The Ventriloquist's gang was unable to resist the Demonz,mainly due to the fact that the Demonz seemed insane,and perfectly willing to fight to the death.A jubilant Dallas,who was the Demonz' leader,remarked that the drug trade was a young man's game. A furious Ventriloquist repaired Scarface, rounded up his gang,and sparked a gang war with the Demonz. For safety purposes,the Street Demonz rotated their safe houses through a pattern,using one a certain night,and another the next. Even the police claimed the Demonz were too well-organized under Dallas's leadership to get any evidence on them. A gang member named Jazzy and several others were in one of their safe houses when the Ventriloquist's gang attacked them brutally with U.S. government weaponry,killing at least eleven of the Demonz,and reducing their safe house to a pile of rubble. The Ventriloquist went on the slaughter many more Demonz,and kept blowing up their safe houses until most of the Demonz were wiped out before Batman finally arrested the Ventriloquist.

The gang eventually recovered,and Dallas began rebuilding the ranks. During the beginning of the Batman: No Man's Land storyline, Batgirl gave several of the Street Demonz a severe beating at her hands after they used machetes to threaten two youths who had been stealing from a store.