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Updated: Rapper Admits To Murder; Held Without Bail [img:$uid]http://i54.tinypic.com/ml2hsn.jpg[/img:$uid]
December 18, 2010
Former Bad Boy rapper G. Dep admitted this week to fatally shooting a man nearly 20 years ago.
The New York Post reports that on Wednesday, the 36-year-old rapper, born Trevell Coleman, walked into the 25th precinct in Harlem and confessed to killing a man way back in 1993.
"I shot and killed someone 17 years ago," he reportedly told an officer at the precinct.
According to the report, Dep told police that he was riding a bike when he approached his victim, 32-year-old John Henkel, on Park Avenue and East 114th street near the James Weldon Johnson housing projects.
Dep, just 18 years old at the time, was planning to rob Henkel, but when he resisted, shot him three times in the chest with a .40-caliber hand gun. He then fled from the crime scene and threw the gun into the East River. Henkel was pronounced dead at St. Luke's hospital.
The crime took place in the 23rd precinct, so investigators from that station house were contacted. William Dunn, a detective at the 23rd precinct, reportedly reviewed the case, which had gone cold, and found that the rapper's story went hand-in-hand with what was on file.
G. Dep was charged with murder for the 1993 shooting, and is being held without bail.
A police source, in an attempt to explain why Dep would suddenly confess to the crime, said "It was just eating away at him."
"My client is presumed innocent, and the case is going to grand jury," said G-Dep's lawyer, Michael Alperstein.
G. Dep came to hip-hop's attention in 1998 with a guest appearance on "The Mall," from Gang Starr's Moment of Truth LP. He signed to Diddy's Bad Boy Records the same year, and released his debut LP, Child of the Ghetto, in 2001.
Despite two well-regarded singles, "Let's Get It" and "Special Delivery," the album was heavily bootlegged and failed to move many units.
He later split with Bad Boy Records, and in 2004 dropped a mixtape, The Deputy: The Sheriff Is Back in Town Volume 1. But since 2003, he's racked up 25 arrests for crimes ranging from drugs to burglary to grand larceny.
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another oustanding model citizen, he wont have to worry about mixtapes anymore, hes going down for a long time "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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It takes a lot to confess to something that he obviously was never gonna get even lookad at for. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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Amen. | |
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Yep.
And what a torn individual he seems. He's the type to confess to a 17-year-old crime for which he'd never be investigated -- presumably due to sheer conscience, and yet he's the type to rack up 25 arrests in eight years. I hope whatever happens to him, he can take that time to settle whatever battle is waging inside of him. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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LOL and don't you just love that attorney? | |
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Hello!? Your client confessed!
Yeah that left me | |
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That was very noble of him to do this. | |
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Dude is obviously going through something | |
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But at least justice will be served.
Well, by law he has to. His job is to defend his client and he can lose his license if he says anything contrary to that. Space for sale... | |
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^^I guess no one would have bit his head off, if he'd just said nothing! It's just sad and well, fucked up and sickening really, that a lawyer will try to (or has to try to) get his client out of taking responsibilty, even if said client has confessed to the crime! [Edited 12/19/10 10:15am] | |
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Well, what if "da man" forced him to confess and he was actually innocent? Not that that's the case but our legal system is set up to presume innocence, even with confession till the judge reads the verdict. Space for sale... | |
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Makes sense. | |
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Well, having your lawyer telling the public that you're innocent, when you are forced to go confess, kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it? Whoever hypothetically forced that guy to confess won't be happy if there is his lawyer conradicting that and fighting to get his client out. | |
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Doesn't make sense. | |
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thing is we are making him sound like a "tortured" individual that lived with this, dude shot and killed someone, he was a cold blooded killer, i dont care if he was 18 or 10 or 50, he hasnt changed since then, he's got a rap sheet longer than the threads about MJ on this forum, so lets drop the whole "dude has suffered" shit, dude is fucking criminal, a murderer, no one forced him to confess to a murder swept under the rug like so many others, and he doesnt get brownie points for confessing either. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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Dude, it's probably a public defender who has yet to even meet his client. Ish ain't that difficult. Space for sale... | |
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lastdecember said: thing is we are making him sound like a "tortured" individual that lived with this, dude shot and killed someone, he was a cold blooded killer, i dont care if he was 18 or 10 or 50, he hasnt changed since then, he's got a rap sheet longer than the threads about MJ on this forum, so lets drop the whole "dude has suffered" shit, dude is fucking criminal, a murderer, no one forced him to confess to a murder swept under the rug like so many others, and he doesnt get brownie points for confessing either. I agree. He shouldn't be praised just b/c he confessed. He took the life of someone's possible husband, father, brother, son or uncle. That person whose life he took is gone forever, the way I see it, it was his duty to confess to the murder. Obviously he hadn't learn his lesson if in recent years he's been committing similar crimes. I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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Hmm, well... he should have, before making a statement! | |
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Space for sale... | |
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the only thing i remember about G dep was when i was in music retail/buying we used to get a ton of his shit, with promise it would move and then a month later we were still staring at the same copies and had call for a return. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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damn I just bootlegged his song the other day.... I'm glad I did not contribute to his defense fund! | |
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You know that one joint he had that went like:
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Good for him, turning himself in. 2010: Healing the Wounds of the Past.... http://prince.org/msg/8/325740 | |
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What?! He's admitted he's a murderer, i hope for the victims family, they remove him from the gene pool ASAP. |
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idiot. | |
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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] |
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He never had a chance. | |
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