

Having had enough of it, the Ballas, with whom Smoke and Lance "Ryder" Wilson, another childhood friend, are now connected, decide to kill Sweet and perform a drive-by shooting on the Johnson house.

His childhood friend, Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris, attempted to convince him to start selling drugs to help the Grove Street Families, although Sweet refuses. Sweet continued to lead the Grove Street Families, whose influence began to decline as their rivals began to manufacture and sell drugs. Spoiler Warning: Plot and/or ending details are in the text which follows. During two separate instances, he is shown to have a girlfriend, who he may or may not have known prior to 1992.

Sweet then moved out into his own house next door to his childhood home. Brian died in an accident in 1987, which Sweet blamed on Carl, resulting in Carl leaving for Liberty City. At an unknown point of time, he became involved with the Grove Street Families and rose to the ranks of the gang leader. He is later present at the births of his three siblings, Carl, Kendl and Brian. Sweet was born to Beverly Johnson and an unnamed father inside the Johnson House on Grove Street in Ganton, Los Santos.
