Michael Alig (born South Bend, Indiana, April 29, 1966) is the co-founding member of the Club Kids, a group of young clubgoers led by Alig and his long-time best friend James St. James in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1996, Alig pled guilty to the manslaughter of Andre "Angel" Melendez[3] in a confrontation over a drug debt