The listed attacks include shootings, stabbings, slashings, bombings, and beatings administered with blunt instruments. The killings typically involved grisly-throat slashings preceded by lengthy beatings and torture. In 2003, there was a spate of "horse slashings" at The Stables. Local gang members posed the specter of random slashings for gang initiations. This clear cutting, with its residual slashings, converted the landscape into a "tinderbox". Dobbins Slashings has also been proposed for wilderness preservation.