MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The Covington Police Department says there is a possible connection between a double shooting in Covington and the shooting death of beloved Memphis rapper Young Dolph.
Covington Police say two women were shot multiple times Friday, November 12, in the area of South College Street and West Church Avenue. Police have confirmed one of the women, identified as Anita Wilson, died of her injuries.
Police say a white Mercedes was involved in that shooting.
Covington Police say that they are confident that the white Mercedes used in the shooting of Young Dolph is the same vehicle used in this double shooting.
Covington Police say they are working closely with Memphis Police in this case.
Police have not released any additional information at this time, as this is an ongoing investigation.
"Put in my contract that I need plenty of weapons/ Cause it's more rappers dead than in any profession." - Fuego Base
Homicide Hartford emcee and Black Soprano Family member, Fuego Base, pays his respects to slain Paper Route Empire CEO, Young Dolph on his latest release titled "DOLPH."
Fuego also touches on the dangers of being an artist today in the game of hip hop, which has seen the tragic losses of many talented up and comers recently due to gun violence.
NIAGARA COUNTY, N.Y. (WSVN) — A 20-year-old New York man who pleaded guilty to the rape & sexual assault of 4 girls will avoid jail time.
Christopher Belter was sentenced to 8 years probation, Tuesday, after he previously pleaded guilty to 2 counts of second-degree sex abuse, third-degree attempted abuse & third-degree rape. Belter will also have to register as a sex offender.
The sentence was handed down by Niagara County Judge Matthew Murphy, who said he believed jail time for Belter would be inappropriate.
“I agonized — I’m not ashamed to say that I actually prayed over what is the appropriate sentence in this case. Because there was great pain. There was great harm — There were multiple crimes committed in the case,” Murphy explained. “It seems to me that a sentence that involves incarceration or partial incarceration isn’t appropriate, so I am going to sentence you to probation.”
The crimes took place between 2017 & 2018 at Belter’s home & involved several girls who were 15 and 16 years old. Belter was charged in 2018 when he was 17 years old & pleaded guilty to the crimes the following year. He was sentenced to 2 years interim probation & would have been granted youthful offender status had he successfully completed his probation.
However, he was denied youthful offender status for violating his probation by bypassing monitoring software on his computer to view pornography.
“I am deeply, deeply disappointed. I expected a different outcome today,” Steve Cohen, an attorney for one of the victims, told WKBW. “Justice was not done today.”
“He is privileged. He comes from money. He is white. He was sentenced as an adult, appropriately — for an adult to get away with these crimes is unjust,” Cohen added.
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Drivers scrambled to grab cash Friday morning after bags of money fell out of an armored truck on a Southern California freeway, authorities said.
The incident occurred shortly before 9:15 a.m. on Interstate 5 in Carlsbad as the truck was heading from San Diego to an office of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
“One of the doors popped open & bags of cash fell out,” California Highway Patrol Sgt. Curtis Martin said.
Several bags broke open, spreading money — mainly $1 & $20 bills — all over the lanes & bringing the freeway to a chaotic halt, Martin said.
Video posted online showed some people laughing & leaping as they held wads of cash.
Two people were arrested at the scene & Martin warned that any others who are found to have taken the money could face criminal charges. He noted there was plenty of video taken by bystanders at the scene & that the CHP & FBI were investigating.
Anyone who took money was urged to bring it to the CHP office in Vista.
Authorities didn’t immediately say how much money was lost. However, at least a dozen people had returned money they collected to the CHP by Friday afternoon.
“People are bringing in a lot,” Martin said. “People got a lot of money.”
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 20, 2021 at 11:30am
(Reuters) - Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said lax gun laws are leading the United States down a "dangerous path" after a jury on Friday acquitted teenager Kyle Rittenhouse in fatal shootings during racial justice protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Jurors found Rittenhouse, 18, not guilty of homicide for killing two men and attempted homicide for wounding a third man. Rittenhouse claimed self defense.
The protests in Kenosha were in response the police shooting of Black man Jacob Blake.
Kerr, who is one of the NBA's leading voices on social issues, said he was not surprised by the verdict but was concerned about its implications.
"We are seemingly all right with a teenager's right to take an AR-15 to an area where there is civil unrest. That's really scary and concerning," he told reporters ahead of the Warriors matchup against the Detroit Pistons on Friday.
The verdict "poses great risk going forward if we continue to go down this path of open carry and states determining that people, even underage people, can have weapons of war," he added.
"This is America, and we're treading down a dangerous path."
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 20, 2021 at 11:04am
Young Dolph wasn't concerned about returning to Memphis -- he made the trip unaware of any ongoing beef, and without any recent threat to his life -- which makes his murder much more stunning to those around him ... TMZ has learned.
Sources close to the late rapper tell us Dolph was excited to be back in his hometown, and had booked a week full of charity events for his community.
We're told he had no fear of hitting the streets of Memphis without security guards, and that's exactly why he made the fateful stop at Makeda's Cookies -- one of his favorite local spots.
Of course, it was the cookie shop where 2 men ambushed Dolph, opening fire and killing him on the spot.
We're told all Dolph wanted to do this week was spread positivity in Memphis, as evidenced by the multiple turkey giveaways he'd organized and projects he had with local rappers.
TMZ broke the story, members of Dolph's Paper Route record label organized a turkey giveaway Friday after others were canceled in the wake of Dolph's murder. Volunteers gave out hundreds of birds to families in need because it's what Dolph would have wanted.
The 2 suspects from Dolph's murder have not been caught. Surveillance images released from the attack show both of them, covered head-to-toe (including masks) and holding guns.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 20, 2021 at 10:30am
AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — FOX31 has confirmed with various sources that the City of Aurora will settle a federal lawsuit with the family of Elijah McClain for $15 million.
“The City of Aurora and the family of Elijah McClain reached a settlement agreement in principle over the summer to resolve the lawsuit filed after his tragic death in August 2019,” said Ryan Luby, the city’s deputy director of communications and marketing.
McClain died in 2019 after police confronted him while he was walking home and wearing a mask. He was also injected by paramedics with the sedative ketamine. He died following the altercation.
Each of the police officers who confronted McClain before his death in August 2019 and the medics who sedated him with ketamine is facing manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges.
The lawsuit, filed in August 2020, names as defendants the city and multiple police officers and fire personnel who were present at the scene prior to McClain’s death.
“Ms. McClain would like to thank the community for its incredible support, love, and commitment to ensuring that Elijah’s death would lead to meaningful reform,” an attorney for Elijah’s mother, Sheneen McClain, said in a statement. “Ms. McClain raised Elijah as a single mother and his death has left an enormous void in her life. While nothing will fill that void, Ms. McClain is hopeful that badly needed reforms to the Aurora Police Department will spare other parents the same heartache.”
Tallahassee, Monticello and Jacksonville are well represented as Cash on Cash Entertainment drops off official visuals for "My City" featuring Bosswood, Nario Da Don, TallyUp and Tommy Versetti.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The defense attorney who caused an outcry by saying Black pastors should be barred from the murder trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s death declared in court Friday that a courthouse rally supporting the slain Black man’s family was comparable to a “public lynching” of the three white defendants.
“This case has been infected by things that have nothing to do with the guilt or innocence of these defendants,” attorney Kevin Gough told the judge, arguing that civil rights activists are trying to influence the disproportionately white jury.
Gough renewed a request for a mistrial the day after the Rev. Al Sharpton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King III joined hundreds of pastors, most of them Black, praying and rallying at the steps of the Glynn County courthouse. The event was organized after Gough last week objected to Sharpton sitting in the back row of the courtroom with Arbery’s parents.
“This is what a public lynching looks like in the 21st century,” Gough told the judge, saying his client’s right to a fair trial was being violated by a “left woke mob.”
Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley dismissed the mistrial motion with little discussion.
“I don’t recall any disruption in the courtroom itself,” the judge said of Thursday’s rally, which coincided with defense testimony.
Gough is the lead attorney for William “Roddie” Bryan, who joined father and son Greg and Travis McMichael in pursuing Arbery in pickup trucks after spotting the 25-year-old man running in their coastal Georgia neighborhood on Feb. 23, 2020. Bryan took cellphone video of Travis McMichael shooting Arbery as he threw punches and grabbed for the shotgun.
Arbery’s killing later became part of the broader reckoning on racial injustice in the criminal legal system after a string of fatal encounters between Black people and police.
Gough has repeatedly raised concerns about outside activists seeking to influence the case. He made the lynching remark after prosecutor Linda Dunikoski accused Gough of intentionally provoking outrage among Black pastors and civil rights activists.
“They are responding to what he strategically, knowingly, intelligently did so that there would be a response so that he could then complain of it,” Dunikoski said. “That is good lawyering right there. Because now he’s motioned for a mistrial based on something that he caused.”
Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, called Gough’s latest comments “ridiculous.”
“He’s done things repeatedly that just surprise me that he would say,” she told reporters outside the courthouse. “Very surprising, but not unexpected I would say.”
The powerhouse duo of Styles P of The Lox and Havoc of Mobb Deep have teamed up for a collaborative album titled “Wreckage Manner,” which drops on December 3.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 19, 2021 at 12:30pm
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted of all charges after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha, Wisconsin, shootings that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice.
The jury came back with its verdict after close to 3 1/2 days of deliberation.
Rittenhouse, 18, could have gotten life in prison if found guilty of the most serious charge against him.
He was charged with homicide, attempted homicide and recklessly endangering safety for killing two men and wounding a third with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle.
The shootings took place during a night of protests over police violence against Black people in the tumultuous summer of 2020. Rittenhouse is white, as were those he shot. The jury appeared to be overwhelmingly white.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 19, 2021 at 12:01pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 100 federal prison workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden indicted for sexual abuse, an associate warden charged with murder, guards taking cash to smuggle drugs & weapons, and supervisors stealing property such as tires & tractors.
An Associated Press investigation has found that the federal Bureau of Prisons, with an annual budget of nearly $8 billion, is a hotbed of abuse, graft & corruption & has turned a blind eye to employees accused of misconduct. In some cases, the agency has failed to suspend officers who themselves had been arrested for crimes.
Two-thirds of the criminal cases against Justice Department personnel in recent years have involved federal prison workers, who account for less than one-third of the department’s workforce. Of the 41 arrests this year, 28 were of BOP employees or contractors. The FBI had just 5. The Drug Enforcement Administration & the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives each had 2.
The numbers highlight how criminal behavior by employees festers inside a federal prison system meant to punish & rehabilitate people who have committed bad acts. The revelations come as advocates are pushing the Biden administration to get serious about fixing the bureau.
In 1 case unearthed by the AP, the agency allowed an official at a federal prison in Mississippi, whose job it was to investigate misconduct of other staff members, to remain in his position after he was arrested on charges of stalking & harassing fellow employees. That official was also allowed to continue investigating a staff member who had accused him of a crime.
Federal prison workers in nearly every job function have been charged with crimes. Those employees include a teacher who pleaded guilty in January to fudging an inmate’s high school equivalency & a chaplain who admitted taking at least $12,000 in bribes to smuggle Suboxone, which is used to treat opioid addiction, as well as marijuana, tobacco & cellphones & leaving the items in a prison chapel cabinet for inmates to retrieve.
At the highest ranks, the warden of a federal women’s prison in Dublin, California, was arrested in September & indicted this month on charges he molested an inmate multiple times, scheduled times where he demanded she undress in front of him & amassed a slew of nude photos of her on his government-issued phone.
Warden Ray Garcia, who was placed on administrative leave after the FBI raided his office in July, allegedly told the woman there was no point in reporting the sexual assault because he was “close friends” with the person who would investigate the allegation & that the inmate wouldn’t be able to “ruin him.” Garcia has pleaded not guilty.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 19, 2021 at 10:46am
Video After The Jump
Jadakiss is torn up over Young Dolph getting gunned down ... he says hip-hop culture needs to stop killing its own artists, and the violence needs to end ASAP.
We got the "Why" rapper at Madison Square Garden and asked him how he's coping after the murder of Young Dolph -- an artist he's worked with in the past.
Jadakiss says the whole thing is very sad and he's tired of seeing hip-hop artists dying way too young, especially when it's because of violence or some old beef.
As we reported ... Dolph was shot and killed Wednesday in his hometown of Memphis while getting cookies from one of his favorite spots. His life was taken moments before he intended to hand out Thanksgiving turkeys in his old neighborhood.
Jadakiss says the whole thing is tragic and emblematic of a larger problem in the hip-hop community ... and he wants things to change STAT.
Jada's doing his part to make a positive impact -- he was at MSG for the Roc Nation job fair, telling us about all the benefits available for folks looking to get back on their feet.
Production credits: Wavy Da Ghawd, Statik Selektah, Berto, GetLarge, Qwan, FrankieP and Backpack.
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Buffalo, New York emcee/producer and The First Lady of Trust Comes First, Che Noir, is gearing up to release a new project titled "Food for Thought" very soon. To get fans warmed up she blesses fans with the single "Praises."
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