Jeffrey McAllister (born 1974) was, in reality, Gordon Cavis, a.k.a. "Crossbones", a runaway from Wisconsin who became a member of the "Bandits" gang based in Chicago. The gang specializes in using children to commit the more violent/vicious crimes (such as murder, which is the "rite of passage") because children so young evade normal criminal penalties, such as prison or Death Row. Cavis was working with gun runner Walker Monroe and Annette McAllister, Walker's girlfriend, to bring guns in through an intermediary, Holiday, when Walker turned violent on Annette, in the next room a stake-out with Metro-Dade Detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs was ongoing, when Annette's screams got loud, Crockett went to investigate, and found Monroe holding a knife to Annette's throa