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In reply to the discussion: Rapper Kenny Clutch killed in Las Vegas shooting [View all]rocktivity
(44,590 posts)79. UPDATE: Ammar Harris convicted, sentenced to death
Last edited Thu Nov 5, 2015, 12:58 AM - Edit history (2)
WECT.com:Jurors reached guilty verdicts for all charges against Ammar Harris for his role in a car-to-car shooting and resulting fiery crash that took place on the Las Vegas Strip...
The 29-year-old self-described pimp is accused of shooting from a black SUV...mortally wounding aspiring rapper (and rival pimp) Kenneth Cherry Jr. ...(whose) car sped through a red light and crashed into a taxi, igniting a fireball that killed driver Michael Boldon and passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, who was visiting Las Vegas...
Harris maintains that someone in the sports car shot at him, but police didn't find a weapon..."It certainly isn't about any sense of danger he was facing that night," said prosecutor Pamela Weckerly. "The only danger he was facing was maybe a bruised ego."
Jurors heard a week of testimony from dozens of prosecution witnesses before Harris decided last week not to take the stand in his defense...(He) was convicted on three counts of murder and a count of attempted murder (and) now faces the death penalty.
Vegas Review Journal:
Ammar Harris was sentenced to death Wednesday for killing three people on the Las Vegas Strip. Harris refused to appear in court this week for the three days of testimony and argument during the penalty hearing.
Defense lawyer Robert Langford, who had argued that Harris was acting in self-defense...had asked jurors for a sentence of "something less than the death penalty."
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No, and I can't imagine Jay-Z or Method Man or Rakim or Kendrick Lamar or KRS-1 committing one
alcibiades_mystery
Feb 2013
#39
Go trap a wild mountain lion in a corner and start beating it with a stick...
Larry Ogg
Feb 2013
#21
You say pretty concretely that the ghetto traps young people. Really? All young people?
callous taoboy
Feb 2013
#35
You got the order of event wrong most start in Gangs and many use rap to get out of the game
Exultant Democracy
Feb 2013
#33
Think of the hiphop nation as one where ANY kind of crime is a capital crime
rocktivity
Feb 2013
#14
they are not fake fucks brought up by Disneyland to fill your afternoon drive hour?
snooper2
Feb 2013
#54
If you dislike DU so much why do you stick around? Seriously, I've seen you trash
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#74
Well, like the mafia killings of yesteryear that another poster already mentioned
Blue_Tires
Feb 2013
#25
Somehow I doubt the NRA will claim this could've been prevented by arming all rappers
Adenoid_Hynkel
Feb 2013
#13
When I heard about the crash, I said it was probably a rapper; I was thinking back on this news:
lexw
Feb 2013
#15
If he was only an "up and coming" rapper, where did he get the Maserati money?
rocktivity
Feb 2013
#49
SUV, suspect identified in shooting that led to death of Oakland rapper Kenny Clutch
rocktivity
Feb 2013
#52
He wasn't sufficiently successful as a rapper to afford the kind of car he was driving
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#62
(Las Vegas) shooting suspect who bragged about life as a pimp now on the run
rocktivity
Feb 2013
#66
The temptation at this stage will be to blame the *real* victim here: the precious gun.
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#75