RJ Payne pays tribute to basketball legend Kobe Bryant who tragically died in a helicopter crash today, along with his 13-year old daughter, Gianna "Gigi" Bryant.
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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Two people were killed and at least seven others injured in a drive-by shooting Friday night at a warehouse complex in north Harris County.
It happened in the 500 block of Smart Street. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the victims were Hispanic men in their 20s. They were ambushed while making a rap music video in the parking lot.
Among the six injured, one was shot in the head and the other in the rear. Two were pronounced dead at the scene and one was taken to an area hospital in critical condition. The condition of the other victims is not known, but they remain hospitalized.
Dozens of numbered crime scene markers were placed around the scene, which is near the corner of Smart Street and Berwyn Drive.
According to the Sheriff's Office, there may be more victims who left the scene looking for medical help. And at this point, it's not clear if the victims knew the suspects or what may have motivated the shooting.
Investigators haven't released any suspect descriptions yet.
Source: KHOU 11
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Using a smoke bomb and a handgun, a hooded gunman dressed all in black opened fire during “college night” at a country music bar in Southern California, killing 12 people and sending hundreds fleeing in terror, authorities said Thursday. The gunman was later found dead.
Authorities said the motive for the attack Wednesday night was under investigation.
Patrons screamed in fear, shouted “Get down!” and used barstools to smash second-floor windows and jump to safety as gunfire erupted at the Borderline Bar & Grill, a popular hangout for college students. The dead included 11 people inside the bar and a sheriff’s sergeant who was the first officer inside the door, Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said.
“It’s a horrific scene in there,” Dean said in the parking lot. “There’s blood everywhere.”
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that authorities had identified the gunman as Ian David Long. The official said the 29-year-old man deployed a smoke device and used a .45-caliber handgun.
The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The massacre was the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. since 17 students and teachers were slain at a Parkland, Florida, high school nine months ago. It also came less than two weeks after a gunman killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. That, it turn, closely followed the series of pipe bombs mailed to critics of President Donald Trump.
Trump praised police for their “great bravery” in the California attack and said, “God bless all of the victims and families of the victims.”
The gunman was tall and wearing all black with a hood and his face partly covered, witnesses told TV stations. He first fired on a person working the door, then appeared to shoot at random at people inside, they said.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus and a passing highway patrolman were responding to several 911 calls when they arrived at the Borderline at about 11:20 p.m., the sheriff said. They heard gunfire and went inside.
Helus was immediately hit with multiple gunshots, Dean said. The highway patrolman pulled Helus out, then waited as a SWAT team and scores more officers arrived. Helus died early Thursday at a hospital.
By the time they entered the bar again, the gunfire had stopped, according to the sheriff. They found 12 people dead inside, including the gunman. It was not immediately clear how the gunman died, Dean said.
The shooting happened on college night. Two-step lessons in country dancing were being offered Wednesday at the Borderline, according to its website.
The bar, which includes a large dance hall with a stage and a pool room along with several smaller areas for eating and drinking, is popular with students from nearby California Lutheran University who enjoy country music. It is also close to several other universities, including California State University Channel Islands in Camarillo, Pepperdine University in Malibu and Moorpark College in Moorpark.
Nick Steinwender, a Cal Lutheran student body president, told KTLA-TV he immediately started receiving messages about the shooting, and he and his roommate went to the scene to offer rides back to campus or moral support.
“It’s going to be a very somber day,” Steinwender said. “I know we don’t have all the details in yet, but you know, it just feels like it’s an attack on our community. You know, I think it’s going to be something that we’re going to have to come together and move past.”
When the gunman entered, people screamed and fled to all corners of the bar, and a few threw barstools through the windows and helped dozens to escape, witnesses said.
Video accessed by the AP showed law enforcement officers and vehicles speeding to the scene and people running from bar. Rapid-fire gunshots could be heard as officers crouched down behind a police vehicle, weapons drawn. Three people were seen carrying someone, and later paramedics applied bandages to the man, who has blood on his back.
Cole Knapp, a freshman at Moorpark College, said he was inside the bar when the shooting began, but he thought at first that it was “just someone with an M-80, just kind of playing a prank.” Then he said he saw the gunman, wearing a black beanie and black hoodie and holding a handgun.
“I tried to get as many people to cover as I could,” Knapp said. “There was an exit right next to me, so I went through that. That exit leads to a patio where people smoke. People out there didn’t really know what was going on. There’s a fence right there so I said, ‘Everyone get over the fence as quickly as you can,’ and I followed them over.”
He said a highway patrol officer was nearby who just happened to be pulling someone over.
“I screamed to him, ‘There’s a shooter in there!’ He was kind of in disbelief, then saw that I was serious,” Knapp said. He said he had friends who hadn’t been accounted for.
Tayler Whitler, 19, said she was on the dance floor with her friends nearby when she saw the gunman shooting and heard screams to “Get down!”
“It was really, really, really shocking,” Whitler told KABC-TV as she stood with her father in the parking lot. “It looked like he knew what he was doing.”
Sarah Rose DeSon told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that she saw the shooter draw his gun. “I dropped to the floor,” she said. “A friend yelled ‘Everybody down!’ We were hiding behind tables trying to keep ourselves covered.”
Shootings of any kind are very rare in Thousand Oaks, a city of about 130,000 people about 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Los Angeles, just across the county line.
Helus was a 29-year veteran of the force with a wife and son and planned to retire in the coming year, said the sheriff, who choked back tears as he talked about the sergeant who was also his longtime friend.
“Ron was a hardworking, dedicated sheriff’s sergeant who was totally committed,” Dean said, “and tonight, as I told his wife, he died a hero because he went in to save lives.”
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AP journalists Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles, Michelle A. Monroe in Phoenix and Michael Balsamo in Washington contributed to this report.
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Dark Lo and Stotle (formerly known as Kylledge) link up for this V Don-produced heater titled "They Killed Pookie."
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(AP) Jurors who awarded only 4 cents to the family of a black man fatally shot in his home by a deputy expressed confusion about the court’s instructions as they struggled to reach a verdict.
Notes sent to the judge show the jurors said they couldn’t reach a unanimous decision before finally finding 30-year-old Gregory Hill Jr. 99 percent responsible for his death, because he was drunk when a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputy shot him.
Hill’s fiancee called the verdict a “slap in the face,” and the family’s lawyer is preparing an appeal, saying he can’t tell whether the jury was angry, or just confused.
Hill was in his garage in the South Florida city of Fort Pierce, listening to loud music when a parent picking a child up from an elementary school across the street called in the complaint in 2014.
According to court documents, deputies responded and Hill eventually raised his garage door to answer them, then lowered it again. A deputy then fired through the door, hitting Hill three times. Deputies testified that they saw Hill holding a weapon. An unloaded gun was found in the dead man’s back pocket.
The sheriff’s office called in a SWAT team, who tear-gassed the home before officers went in and found Hill’s body.
A sheriff’s statement said Deputy Christopher Newman, who fired the fatal shots, was “placed in a very difficult situation, and like so many fellow law enforcement officers must do every day, he made the best decision he could for the safety of his partner, himself, and the public given the circumstances he faced.”
A grand jury in Florida brought no charges, so Hill’s family turned to federal court, filing a civil rights lawsuit against Newman and his department.
Attorney John Phillips said the jurors -- one black man, two white men and five white women -- seemed receptive to the family’s case during the trial, but confused by the instructions the judge gave for their deliberations last week.
“The jury smiled, cried and showed anger during the trial. They were normal, reactive people and seemed to understand both sides of the case,” Phillips said.
There were two claims the jury had to decide: a federal civil rights claim, and a state-law claim of negligence. Phillips suggested that the wording of the instructions may have confused the jurors.
The instructions said they could award $1 in “nominal damages” to the family if Hill’s injuries weren’t clearly the result of unjustifiable force. But that part of the instruction was supposed to apply only to the federal civil rights claim, which the jury decided entirely in the deputy’s favor. On the state-law claim, they decided -- in a very small way -- in favor of the family by finding the sheriff’s department 1 percent negligent.
Hours before the verdict, the jury sent the judge a note with a question: “If we find minimal negligence, can the courts overrule monetary amounts presented by the jury?”
The judge replied that she did not understand, and asked them to clarify. They never did.
At another point, they said they were struggling to reach a unanimous decision. The judge told them to keep trying.
Finally, the jury awarded Hill’s relatives $1 for funeral expenses and $1 for each of Hill’s three children. That $4 was then reduced to 4 cents - or 1 percent, representing the sheriff’s liability. The other 99 percent was blamed on the dead man, under a Florida law that enables such decisions if a victim was under the influence of alcohol.
Hill’s fiancee, Monique Davis said she had to leave the courtroom during the verdict so she wouldn’t have an outburst.
“It was basically a slap in the face. You value someone’s life as one dollar?”
Phillips said he’s baffled. He’s planning to ask for a new trial, and to file an appeal if that’s denied.
“A finding of no negligence and no civil rights violations is one thing, but the series of one-dollar awards for these kids was shocking, upsetting and confusing.”
University of Miami law professor Osamudia James says the option of nominal damages is given to juries as a way to acknowledge a wrong, even if they don’t believe large damages are warranted. It’s one tool juries are given to facilitate the difficult process of assigning monetary awards for injuries.
“In cases like this with nominal awards, juries are saying ‘We don’t like what happened, but we’re not awarding a lot (of money) to it,’” James said.
Hill and Davis were high school sweethearts, engaged to be married. He had two kids with Davis and a third with another woman.
Davis called him a family man who loved working and fishing, and always provided for his children.
“He wasn’t running the streets doing bad things,” she said. “He was not perfect but he wasn’t a bad guy.”
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Here's a new song from Atlanta rapper, Bambino Gold, who tragically lost his life recently. This Shawty Boy-produced tack is called "Street Life." It's off of the forthcoming mixtape "Strictly 4 The Traps N Trunks (Long Live Bambino Gold Edition)."
Rest in Peace Bambino and Skooly Wit Da Tooly
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It's really hear new music from the Riot Squad. Late greats Chinx and Stack Bundles on a song with Bynoe and Cau2G$ is the perfect way to kick the weekend off.
This track is titled "All Good." It's off of Chinx's forthcoming posthumous album, "Legends Never Die," available September 16. You can pre-order it now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/legends-never-die/id1114300544
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Bankroll Fresh's cousin Street Money Boochie just released a new EP titled "Where I Came From." On one of the songs, "Too Long," he links up with QuickTrip to address No Plug's VladTV interview where he admits to killing Bankroll.
The track was produced by Cameron.
"Where I Came From" is available now on LiveMixtapes: http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/40577/street-money-boochie-where-i-came-from.html
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Here's a new single from Chinx titled "Match That." This is off of the late rapper's forthcoming posthumous album titled "Legends Never Die," which will be released on September 16. You can pre-order it now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/legends-never-die/id1114300544
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It's an OBH/Goonie Gang thing as Dark Lo and Kylledge connect over the instrumental to Westside Gunn's "They Killed Pookie." The track was produced by V Don.
Kylledge's "Not a Mixtape" project will be dropping soon.
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Entertainment One is preparing to release a posthumous album from Chinx titled "Legends Never Die" very soon. Here is the first single off of it called "For the Love" featuring Meet Sims. It's available now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/for-love-feat.-meet-sims-single/id1101360916
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Manolo Rose drops his debut mixtape titled "Concrete Rose." Features include Chinx, Dave East, Vado, Rowdy Rebel and more.
Download it from Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/Manolo-Rose-Concrete-Rose-mixtape.713989.html.
Check out this banger featuring Chinx, "Get Like Me."
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Protesters took to the streets on Friday, March 6, after a 19-year old black man was shot five times by police in Madison, Wisconsin.
Cops responded to a call that Tony Robinson had committed battery earlier. When an officer arrived at his apartment he said he heard a disturbance inside. The cop forced his way into the apartment and reportedly got into a struggle with Robinson. During the fight the unidentified officer was reportedly hit in the head. He then drew his weapon and fired.
Tony Robinson (right) was a recent graduate of Sun Prairie High School
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"In the context of mutual combat in that sense, the officer did draw his revolver and subsequently shot the subject," Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said.
Hours after Anthony Robinson was fatally shot by a Madison police officer, his grandmother, Sharon Irwin (second from the right), and aunt, Lorien Carter (pictured with the megaphone), asked the crowd at Williamson Street to keep demonstrations peaceful.
Police said they did not know if Robinson was armed, but initial indications are that he was not.
The officer on the scene administered CPR immediately after the shooting. Robinson was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.
State law mandates that an independent investigation be conducted. MPD froze the scene until the state Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation arrived,according to The Daily Cardinal.
"You're not protecting us, you're killing us!" Robinson's grandmother, Sharon Irwin, shouted at police as the protests continued into early Saturday, according to The New York Daily News.
Protesters chanted "Black Lives Matter" and "Justice!"
Robinson's aunt, Lorien Carter, said the family wasn't allowed to see Robinson's body in the hospital because it was considered "evidence."
"He wasn't referred to as 'his son' or 'your son,' just 'evidence,'" she said.
Sources: New York Daily News, Associated Press,, Nico Savidge, Daily Cardinal
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Uncle Murda, Maino and Jay Watts have come together to visualize their frustration with crooked cops and the judicial system in the official music video for "Hands Up."
The song is a tribute to Eric Garner and Michael Brown. All proceeds are being donated to their families. Purchase it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/album/id915556970
Video directed by Picture Perfect. Produced by 12 Keyz and Reefa
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O.T.F. boss Lil Durk wasn't going to be left out of the wave of rappers who have hopped on Def Loaf's popular song "Try Me." Take a listen to the DDS-produced remix up top.
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Uncle Murda teams up with Maino and singer Jay Watts for "Hands Up." Their anger at the injustice of police killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and so many other minorities at the hands of police in America is palpable.
Produced by Reefa & 12 Keyz
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Official Music Video for the G-Unit track titled, "Ahhh Sh!t"
G-Unit just dropped a new EP, "The Beauty of Independence"
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J. Cole pays tribute to Michael Brown on his new song entitled "Be Free."
18-year old Brown was unarmed when he was gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer on Saturday, August 9. The shooting angered the community, resulting in protests, riots and police confrontations.
The unidentified officer is currently on paid administrative leave pending an FBI investigation.
Rest in Peace to Michael Brown and to every young black man murdered in America, whether by the hands of white or black. I pray that one day the world will be filled with peace and rid of injustice. Only then will we all Be Free - Cole
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Back in November 2012 Gucci Mane issued a challenge on Twitter to fight anyone who was interested.
"I'm challenging any rapper friend or foe in the ring to a boxing match. Put yo money up. Who got hands not raps. Who wants the challenge," Gucci tweeted at the time. "All Deez Pussy ass rappers -- The proceeds from the ring will go to charities. You scary ass Rappers."
It wasn't long before The Game took him up on the offer. The fight never materialized, but Gucci apparently recorded a diss record as an answer back.
Take a listen to "The Definition" up top. Produced by Zaytoven. Gucci's Trap House 4 project drops on the 4th of July.
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