While growing up on 5th-N-O street, N.W., Washington, D.C. life wasn't easy for Dwight Whitehorse Sanders. He was a poor under-privileged youth who often stayed hungry. When it came to his younger brother and sister being teased by some ruthless bullies, Whitehorse's stomach and heart became overly full with courage.

Whitehorse was in search of a better life for himself and his younger siblings. He trained to become a professional boxer, thinking that he would one day soon be able to move his family out of the ghetto. Suddenly his mother became ill and he was forced to become the man of the house. Prior to his mother's untimely death, she taught him the rules of the streets in order to prepare him for a world he'd never want to meet.

With his mother now gone, his siblings in need of a provider, Whitehorse quickly became one of the most calculated, ruthless killers walking the streets of D.C. He soon learned that the rules of the streets were unforgiving. He experienced a multitude of trials and tribulations just to keep food on the table. Battling in the streets would take more from him than he would ever know. Later, Horse is shown that his skills with a pistol would prove to be futile against karma itself.