james t.-bone taylor.e's serving a double life sentence for killing two police officers in 1991. >> it made me feel like big man on campus but it wasn't because they respected me who i was. >> he was involved in gang related activity on both sides of the wall since he was a teenager in east st. louis. he earned his nickname t bone. >> it was hard to get a knife so i had made a knife out of bone, out of t bone steak. and i had sharpened it down and was going to stab a guy with it and before i could they bust me with it and see it in my hands so they took it and the name just stuck. guys in the penitentiary called me t-bone. >> but it was his d zier to reach the hierarchy on the outside that led him to commit the murders. when police arrived to shut it down, taylor grabbed one of the officer's pistols. >> i shot the man three times, right? everybody broke and run. and the other police, he was still down so i ran over there and then i shot him three times. it wasn't because i was on no drugs or alcohol. i was