A court has heard that a man who was shot dead in the street 'wasn't very pleased' after being told he would have to pay 'full price' for his trainers to be cleaned.
05.10.2023 - 17:05 / thefader.com
YNW Melly’s star was rising fast in the fall of 2018. His mixtape I Am You — released that August by 300 Entertainment — was a successful label debut, certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, with its lead single, “Murder On My Mind,” going 6x Platinum. Ben Dandridge-Lemco profiled Melly for The FADER’s GEN F series a day before the project dropped, and production wrapped on a short documentary about his life in late October.
Born Jamell Maurice Demons in Gifford, Florida — an impoverished, unincorporated community in the Vero Beach metro area — when his mother was just 14, Melly came into this world with the odds stacked against him. Nineteen years later, he was a superstar. Read Next: YNW Melly and YNW Bortlen charged with witness tampering On October 26 — four days after the 21-minute movie documenting his rise was completed, according to its credits — two of the men depicted in the film as his closest companions were killed in an apparent drive-by shooting, with Melly and another man also present.
But while he mourned his fallen friends publicly, detectives were gathering evidence to claim that Melly and the fourth man in the vehicle were responsible for killing their companions in cold blood. In February 2019, the state of Florida charged them with two counts each of first-degree murder. Four-and-a-half years and a mistrial later, Melly is still in Broward County Jail, waiting to be tried for a second time on the same charges.
A court has heard that a man who was shot dead in the street 'wasn't very pleased' after being told he would have to pay 'full price' for his trainers to be cleaned.
Killers of the Flower Moon,” by David Grann, which details how the Osage fell victim to a string of murders.One was killed with poisoned whiskey (there may have been more), others got shot and Bill and Rita Smith, a white man married to an Osage woman had their home blown up. The pure greed of it all was made evident when William King Hale (often referred to, simply, as King), a wealthy rancher who held considerable sway over Native Americans and whites alike, took out a $25,000 life insurance policy on an Osage man named Henry Roan. A doctor who examined Roan for the policy asked Hale if he planned on killing Roan.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Martin Scorsese’s $200 million epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” based on David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book, centers on the Reign of Terror, a term the Osage Nation used to define the murders of at least 60 community members in the late 1920s. The film tells this true crime tale through the lens of a marriage between Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), a World War I veteran who relocates to Oklahoma to work with his rancher uncle, and Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone), a local Osage woman whose family was one of the community’s wealthiest. Robert De Niro stars as Ernest’s uncle, William Hale.
A Florida man doing whatever he could to cover up his lies about how much money he had? Sounds a little too familiar. Unfortunately this man’s actions included murdering his wife.
The State of Florida has added new charges to YNW Melly’s witness tampering case, NBC6 News reports. Court documents confirm that six new charges have been filed in Melly’s case, the case of YNW Bortlen — Melly’s co-defendant in a separate but connected homicide case stemming from the double murder of their friends YNW Juvy and YNW Sakchaser — and that of Terrence Mathis.
preliminary injunction stopping the law from being enforced until a trial is held to determine whether the law is unconstitutional, as the plaintiffs challenging the law claim, reports The Associated Press.U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell, of the Middle District of Florida, had issued the preliminary injunction blocking the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation — which, under Gov.
Alixandra Buckelew, a prosecutor who helped convict three men accused in the 2018 murder of XXXTentacion, has been assigned to YNW Melly‘s double murder trial. Broward Circuit Court Judge John Murphy brought Buckelew onto the case after recusing Broward County Assistant State Attorney Kristine Bradley on Friday, October 13. Bradley was removed from the case last week following a motion filed by Melly’s defense team.
The trial of five men accused of murder over the fatal shooting of Ashley Dale has continued for a second week.James Witham, of Ashbury Road in Huyton, 28-year-old Sean Zeisz, of Longreach Road in Huyton, 26-year-old Niall Barry, of Moscow Drive in Tuebrook, 28-year-old Joseph Peers, of Woodlands Road in Roby, and 28-year-old Ian Fitzgibbon, of Heigham Gardens in St Helens, have pleaded not guilty to murdering the Knowsley Council worker, conspiracy to murder her boyfriend Lee Harrison and conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon, namely a Skorpion submachine gun, and ammunition with intent to endanger life. Witham, 41, has admitted the lesser charge of manslaughter, having shot the 28-year-old victim dead in her home on Leinster Road in Old Swan, Liverpool, in the early hours of August 21 last year.
Ashley Dale's killer shopped at Liverpool ONE and put £1,000 into his bank account two days after he shot her dead, her murder trial has heard. The Knowsley council worker died aged 28 after being shot in the abdomen and collapsing in the back yard of her home on Leinster Road, Old Swan, shortly after midnight on August 21 last year.
In a Friday, October 13 hearing, Florida Circuit Judge John Murphy recused Broward County Assistant State Attorney Kristine Bradley from the case of YNW Melly. The ruling represents a half victory for the Melly’s defense team, whose motion to recuse included not only Bradley but the entire Broward County State Attorney’s Office.
The trial in the case of Ashley Dale has heard a gunman allegedly followed her through her home and shot at her as she fled towards her 'only escape route' after 'bashing in' her front door. The Knowsley council worker died aged 28 after being shot in the abdomen and collapsing in the back yard of her home on Leinster Road, Old Swan, shortly after midnight on August 21 last year.
Tupac Shakur’s unsolved murder is one of history’s highest-profile cold cases. Despite the mountains of evidence uncovered by independent investigations, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department failed to make a single arrest directly related to the case for 27 years.
A man on trial accused of plotting a shooting which ended with a woman being shot dead in her own home may have been fuelled a years old feud, a murder trial heard. Ashley Dale was gunned down in her home in Liverpool after a man broke in and opened fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun, the Echo reports.
A businessman was shot dead by his brother following a row over a pair of trainers, a murder trial heard. Zikel Bobmanuel died after his brother Rumaal Ingram opened fire in the street.
YNW Melly was charged with witness tampering in his own double homicide case Tuesday night (October 3), the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports and online arrest records confirm. Melly (born Jamell Maurice Demons) and Cortlen Malik Henry (aka YNW Bortlen) are accused of murdering their childhood friends and crew members Christopher Thomas (YNW Juvy) and Anthony Williams (YNW Sakchaser) in 2018. Melly has been denied bond on multiple occasions, including last week.
SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from the Season 3 finale of Hulu‘s Only Murders In The Building.
to be returned to their “forever home” in England.The Jonas Brothers frontman, 34, and the “Dark Phoenix” star, 27, were not present in court – although Turner did call into the hearing, but didn’t speak except to ask if the judge and lawyers could hear her.Her attorneys pressed the judge to set a trial date as soon as possible, arguing that Turner had a new project beginning in England in January and urging that the case should be resolved before then.“We have young kids, and we have the petitioner who is here now in the United States, but she has work commitments in the UK in January,” one of her lawyers said.Jonas’ side asked for a date next year after his music tour ended.The singer filed for divorce from Turner in a Florida court in early September seeking to end their four year marriage.Turner argued in her Sept. 21 lawsuit that prior to the relationship imploding, the couple had planned to move into a stunning Wallingford, Oxford estate by December – making the UK their daughters’ home base.The pair agreed that while they duke out custody in court the children will temporarily remain in New York City.Taylor Swift has loaned out her Big Apple pad to Turner until the custody battle is resolved.The estranged duo are also fighting each other about what court should have jurisdiction over the custody struggle.
The "trial of the century" came to a close on this day in history, Oct. 3, 1995, with the acquittal of Orenthal James "O.J." Simpson for two counts of murder. Simpson's acquittal came nine months after the trial began — and about 16 months after Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman, were found brutally murdered outside her home in Los Angeles.
cold case breakthrough kicked off on July 17 after police searched a home on the outskirts of the Sin City strip in Henderson, Nevada.The evidence found led to the arrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, who was taken into custody by Las Vegas police on Sept. 28 and now faces a charge of murder with a deadly weapon for Shakur’s death 27 years ago.Here’s a breakdown of the events leading up to Davis’ arrest.Two years before Shakur was killed, the “All Eyez on Me” rapper was shot five times in the elevator at Quad Studios in Times Square during a robbery.“I dropped to the floor.
Broward County Judge John Murphy will consider a motion filed by YNW Melly’s attorneys to dismiss the double homicide case against him, NBC6 South Florida reports. In a hearing Wednesday (September 27), the judge said he’d give the State of Florida time to respond to a motion filed by the defense on Tuesday claiming prosecutors withheld evidence of potential police misconduct during Melly’s first trial, which was declared a mistrial in July.