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Reply #30 posted 12/19/10 2:12pm

PoppyBros

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Marrk said:

PoppyBros said:

idiot.

Yes he is.

If that was meant for me, you should've quoted me. I really don't mind, there's worse things to be in this world than an idiot. You know, like a murdering scumbag.

Ho-hum.

[Edited 12/19/10 13:55pm]

If i didn't quote you, i am not talking to you wink

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Reply #31 posted 12/19/10 2:17pm

Marrk

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PoppyBros said:

Marrk said:

Yes he is.

If that was meant for me, you should've quoted me. I really don't mind, there's worse things to be in this world than an idiot. You know, like a murdering scumbag.

Ho-hum.

[Edited 12/19/10 13:55pm]

If i didn't quote you, i am not talking to you wink

See? i'm an idiot! lol

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Reply #32 posted 12/19/10 3:26pm

Graycap23

Wow....................praise 4 a confessed killer.

confused

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Reply #33 posted 12/19/10 4:19pm

Timmy84

I feel like Martin Lawrence: "Going on trial? The fuck's the trial about?! He killed a motherfucker! GUILTY!"

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Reply #34 posted 12/20/10 4:15am

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Graycap23 said:

Wow....................praise 4 a confessed killer.

confused

Exactly.

I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince.
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Reply #35 posted 12/20/10 7:36am

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Graycap23 said:

Wow....................praise 4 a confessed killer.

confused

I know!! Lame!

His eyes are really red in that pic. He looks possessed.

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Reply #36 posted 12/20/10 10:04am

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I don't know what to say at the moment. disbelief

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Reply #37 posted 12/20/10 10:09am

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TonyVanDam said:

I don't know what to say at the moment. disbelief

....except one question.

Was THIS dude a manchurian candidate?

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Reply #38 posted 12/23/10 2:38pm

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G. Dep Officially Indicted On Murder Charge; Diddy Comments

December 23, 2010

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G. Dep, was officially indicted on second-degree murder charges on Tuesday (December 21), days after confessing to a murder from 17 years earlier.

The rapper's lawyer, Michael Alperstein, told the New York Daily News on Tuesday that his client's shocking confession was part of a 12-step Narcotics Anonymous detox program, where he was making amends for his past.

"The power of the 12-step program and making amends," his lawyer said. "He's trying to remake his life. He's trying to clean up."

Dep (real name: Trevell Coleman) walked into the 25th precinct in Harlem last week, and told cops that he had shot a man back in 1993, when he was just 18, following an unsuccessful robbery attempt. The problem is, the man died.

Despite his confession, the rapper, now 36, claims he had no idea that his shooting victim had died when he spilled the beans to police.

"I'm just trying to get right with God," he told the New York Post after his arrest.

His lawyer told the Daily News that Dep had twice tried to confess in the past, but that cops didn't take him seriously and asked him to come back. However, a police source disputed that notion, saying that Dep was "high as a kite" when he first attempted to confess over the summer, and that interviews with him had been unsuccessful.

G. Dep's former boss, Diddy, called into Sirius' Shade 45 radio show on Tuesday morning to talk up his latest effort, Last Train to Paris. But, he also took some time to comment on the situation of his onetime Bad Boy artist.

"You could always feel that if you knew G. Dep, and I can't say it was that (the murder), maybe something was troubling his soul," Diddy explained. " 'Cause he was real quiet. He's the type of guy who wouldn't hurt a fly. I don't know what happened in that instance, but he did the right thing and manned up to it."

Diddy also speculated on what G. Dep's state of mind may have been back in 1993, not long before he signed to Diddy's record label.

"He had a real bad drug problem and that could have caused the situation," the hip-hop mogul said. "As a person, that wasn't nothing that he would do. Drugs sometimes make people slip up and make mistakes."

If convicted of the murder, Dep could face 25-years to life in prison.

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Reply #39 posted 12/23/10 3:15pm

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He should be an example so someone who might think it's okay to kill or no big deal to kill, or worth it to kill.

That this guy got away with it and could not live with the guilt should tell you what it means to take a person't life.

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Reply #40 posted 12/23/10 3:32pm

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I pray for his soul. To have that on your head all that time is heavy. Obviously not a cold blooded killer, or he would've confessed. Any young man without some serious guidance in the city is gonna have a rap sheet. Not making excuses, but I work with alotta young men. It's obvious that different classes get to make minor mistakes and move on, while others are marked for life. Of course murder is not minor, not excusable. It's just sad to see younger generations with less choices, with a future less bright than ours.

since Run & Them were saying "Here we go"
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Reply #41 posted 12/27/10 10:46am

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Victim's stepbrother: 'Sl... confessed

Last Updated: 5:18 AM, December 27, 2010

Posted: 1:01 AM, December 27, 2010

He should have kept his dark secret.

The stepbrother of the man shot to death by former Bad Boy rapper G-Dep -- who inadvertently confessed to the crime 17 years later -- said the hapless hip-hop artist was foolish to cop to the cold case.

"I think he's an idiot," said Robert Henkel, 56, whose then-32-year-old stepbrother, John, was blasted in the chest with three bullets on Oct. 19, 1993.

"He has three kids and a wife. It was years and years and years ago. Finally, we're not always thinking about it . . . and now it has to be dug up all again."

John henkel
John henkel

The Harlem-born rapper, whose real name is Trevell Coleman, walked into the 25th Precinct Dec. 15 and admitted to the shooting -- later telling The Post he didn't even know Henkel had died in the attack. Coleman's lawyer claimed he unburdened himself as part of a 12-step anti-drug-addiction program.

A grand jury last week indicted G-Dep for murder.

"His mother told him, 'Don't turn yourself in,' " Henkel said, referring to The Post's exclusive jailhouse interview with the rapper.

"She was right . . . After all this time, yes, he just should have shut up."

Robert Henkel, who now lives in a rural upstate town, said the long-ago shooting was hard on his late stepmother -- though "she kept things to herself" -- and devastated his stepbrother Werner, who has psychological problems.

Both had remained in Ridgewood after the shooting.

"There was a lot of garbage going on -- race, drugs," the union carpenter said of the hard-scrabble neighborhood. "Today, you got to listen to bullets flying all day long. I'm glad I got my other brother up here with me."

Henkel said he wouldn't have known about G-Dep's confession if a Ridgewood neighbor hadn't gotten in touch with him and relayed the news.

"Then I went to the computer, and I've been following it every day," he said. "I've got mixed emotions about this whole thing . . . [Coleman] might have made something of his life."

As The Post reported, G-Dep was a featured artist on a new single, "On My Way," to be released Jan. 25 by Protekted Records artist and Brooklyn-born rapper Chi King.

Protekted CEO Jon Gornbein has vowed to donate a portion of the sales proceeds to surviving family members -- and Henkel said he'd accepted the offer and will use it to add a bedroom for Werner.



Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/slay_fess_rapper_an_idiot_fmC3nkE2iOVtlq07FyQbKN#ixzz19L62KlMd



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Reply #42 posted 12/27/10 10:55am

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banks said:

Victim's stepbrother: 'Sl... confessed

Last Updated: 5:18 AM, December 27, 2010

Posted: 1:01 AM, December 27, 2010

He should have kept his dark secret.

The stepbrother of the man shot to death by former Bad Boy rapper G-Dep -- who inadvertently confessed to the crime 17 years later -- said the hapless hip-hop artist was foolish to cop to the cold case.

"I think he's an idiot," said Robert Henkel, 56, whose then-32-year-old stepbrother, John, was blasted in the chest with three bullets on Oct. 19, 1993.

"He has three kids and a wife. It was years and years and years ago. Finally, we're not always thinking about it . . . and now it has to be dug up all again."

John henkel
John henkel

The Harlem-born rapper, whose real name is Trevell Coleman, walked into the 25th Precinct Dec. 15 and admitted to the shooting -- later telling The Post he didn't even know Henkel had died in the attack. Coleman's lawyer claimed he unburdened himself as part of a 12-step anti-drug-addiction program.

A grand jury last week indicted G-Dep for murder.

"His mother told him, 'Don't turn yourself in,' " Henkel said, referring to The Post's exclusive jailhouse interview with the rapper.

"She was right . . . After all this time, yes, he just should have shut up."

Robert Henkel, who now lives in a rural upstate town, said the long-ago shooting was hard on his late stepmother -- though "she kept things to herself" -- and devastated his stepbrother Werner, who has psychological problems.

Both had remained in Ridgewood after the shooting.

"There was a lot of garbage going on -- race, drugs," the union carpenter said of the hard-scrabble neighborhood. "Today, you got to listen to bullets flying all day long. I'm glad I got my other brother up here with me."

Henkel said he wouldn't have known about G-Dep's confession if a Ridgewood neighbor hadn't gotten in touch with him and relayed the news.

"Then I went to the computer, and I've been following it every day," he said. "I've got mixed emotions about this whole thing . . . [Coleman] might have made something of his life."

As The Post reported, G-Dep was a featured artist on a new single, "On My Way," to be released Jan. 25 by Protekted Records artist and Brooklyn-born rapper Chi King.

Protekted CEO Jon Gornbein has vowed to donate a portion of the sales proceeds to surviving family members -- and Henkel said he'd accepted the offer and will use it to add a bedroom for Werner.



Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/slay_fess_rapper_an_idiot_fmC3nkE2iOVtlq07FyQbKN#ixzz19L62KlMd



Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/slay_fess_rapper_an_idiot_fmC3nkE2iOVtlq07FyQbKN#ixzz19L5uX8v5

G-dep better watch his back, the other brother has "issues" himself. If anyone gives this G-Dep any form of sympathy for his confession, my answer to that is, let him shoot your brother and then think about that "sympathy", all i know is if this were my family, you wouldnt even have to worry about a trial or housing G-dep, he'd be gone.


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Reply #43 posted 01/14/11 5:57am

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G-Dep Recants Murder Confession eek

January 14, 2011

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New York rapper G-Dep appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday (January 13th), where he pleaded not guilty to murdering a man 17-years-ago during a botched robbery in New York.

The plea comes after G-Dep walked into the 25th precinct and admitted to shooting John Henkel in October of 1993.

G-Dep said he confessed as part of a drug rehabilitation program, but he did not know his victim had died from the gunshot wounds.

According to his lawyer Anthony Ricco, the not-guilty plea was a procedural step, so that G-Dep's confession to police could be scrutinized, because he was most likely under the influence of drugs at the time admitted to the murder.

His lawyer stated that G-Dep's drug of choice over the years was PCP, a powerful hallucinogenic.

G-Dep, born Trevell Coleman, faces 25 years to life in prison over the murder. The rapper is being held without bail.

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Reply #44 posted 01/14/11 9:24am

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G-Dep Recants Murder Confession eek

January 14, 2011

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New York rapper G-Dep appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday (January 13th), where he pleaded not guilty to murdering a man 17-years-ago during a botched robbery in New York.

The plea comes after G-Dep walked into the 25th precinct and admitted to shooting John Henkel in October of 1993.

G-Dep said he confessed as part of a drug rehabilitation program, but he did not know his victim had died from the gunshot wounds.

According to his lawyer Anthony Ricco, the not-guilty plea was a procedural step, so that G-Dep's confession to police could be scrutinized, because he was most likely under the influence of drugs at the time admitted to the murder.

His lawyer stated that G-Dep's drug of choice over the years was PCP, a powerful hallucinogenic.

G-Dep, born Trevell Coleman, faces 25 years to life in prison over the murder. The rapper is being held without bail.

rolleyes

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Reply #45 posted 01/14/11 11:31am

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I don't get people giving him props for turning himself in SEVENTEEN YEARS LATER! lol He tried to rob somebody at gunpoint, the person refused so he shot him three times. Then he waited almost two decades to confess, leaving the victims family and friends without closure all that time. He's a punk ass bitch. And judging by his recent 25 arrests, he's probably been institutionalized. Three squares and a cot.

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Reply #46 posted 01/14/11 11:37am

Timmy84

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I don't get people giving him props for turning himself in SEVENTEEN YEARS LATER! lol He tried to rob somebody at gunpoint, the person refused so he shot him three times. Then he waited almost two decades to confess, leaving the victims family and friends without closure all that time. He's a punk ass bitch. And judging by his recent 25 arrests, he's probably been institutionalized. Three squares and a cot.

yeahthat

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