The 19-year-old who ordered fellow Bloods gang members to open fire at a group of MS-13 gang members outside a Wheaton mall last month was on probation stemming from a 2006 incident in which he beat a man with a pipe, police said.

Anthony D. Taylor, of the District, pleaded guilty in September 2007 to assaulting a man in a Brentwood park along with three other Bloods members in December 2006, court records show.

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According to charging documents, the victim was driven by an acquaintance and two other Bloods to a park, where they met Taylor. They tied the man up and beat him. Taylor used a pipe, another man hit him with a shotgun and a third sliced him with a knife. The victim eventually escaped and was treated for a concussion and other injuries. Last month, Taylor and several other Bloods members opened fire at a group of MS-13 members outside the Westfield Wheaton Shopping Centre after Taylor shouted “bust them,” police said.