Hip-hop is to blame. If hip-hop wasn't all about the illegal activity, this wouldn't have happened, but since it is......
Hate to hijack this with another link...but this is the reason why stings happen...too many people trying to live the life...too many guns held by irresponsible people..
Someone commented on the article, too...
Here's the article
http://allhiphop.com/2011/12/21/police-determine-rapper-slim-dunkin-killed-over-candy/
Here's the comment:
I wrote a comment...I know they (Allhiphop) won't post it. So I will tone it down. Please black people...wake up. Time is running out. We are turning into a cartoon. The hate is unbelievable. You hate yourself that much that you will kill over Candy. The music is so bad, you follow rappers that can't even speak a correct sentence. They are selling you crack and brainwash music, can't you see what's going on? They are pushing their agenda down your throats. And most of the followers imitate and cosign this buffoonery. There are 2-3 mainstream rappers that have something positive to say, Lupe & Common & the Roots but 50-100 that push sewage to the minds & ears of the youth and become rich. What's even more ironic is that there is no talent or creativity to their hood stories (i.e Biggie).
Is Money your God, Target, Salvation, Love and meaning to who and want you really are. If so, most are so dumb that they can't find a cohesive way to make money because their minds is submerged in death, hate and destruction. Is your ideal of making money in (trap house, on the block, robbery, murder, hustling with no plan) Lose - Lose situation. Sisters & Brothers, don't forget the struggle. Since most you guys spend hours on the internet. look at a documentary called (Eyes on the Prize volume 1-16) it's on youtube. Educate yourself about the struggle that our Great Grand Parents, Grand Parents and Parents had to go through so we can be in the position that we are in now. It's looking like it was all in vein. We must do better as a collective but first we must start with ourselves and our situations.
RIP young Brother, tragic demise but the reality is most of the young brothers die the same way in every hood, every day, in America. Wake up.