Posted on 12/10/2011 6:56:34 PM PST by massmike
A 1-year-old boy who was shot in the head during the filming of a rap music video in Oakland was taken off life support Friday.
Hiram Lawrence, who would have turned 2 on Dec. 28, was pronounced dead at 3:05 p.m., the Rev. Roosevelt Taylor said.
Hiram was being held by his father, also named Hiram Lawrence, when gunfire erupted as about 20 people gathered outside a west Oakland liquor store Nov. 28, police said. Six other people were wounded, including Hiram's father, who was shot in the hand.
Investigators have said the shooting occurred after one group of people fired on another group, and the second group fired back. A surveillance camera at State Market Liquors captured parts of the shooting, including three people wearing hooded sweatshirts firing from around the corner from the store.
Witnesses initially said Oakland rapper Kafani was the one making a video when the shooting occurred. But Kafani has said that while his promotional van was in the vicinity, he was not there.
Police said shortly after the shooting that investigators didn't think Kafani had any significance in the case.
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A surveillance camera at State Market Liquors captured parts of the shooting, including three people wearing hooded sweatshirts firing from around the corner from the store.
That’s homey for you, ‘’keepin’ it real yo’’. Mindless aborigines.
A Democrat who doesn't admit that he hates the Constitution is a liar.
animals
Gang bangers make no sense and don’t have any limits to when they open fire. We just had a couple of Mexicans go at it in the parking lot of their employer. The employer accidentally hired members of two rival gangs. And what kind of work were these two hard cases doing, you ask? The two gunslinging tough guys were shift workers at a peanut butter factory.
Hey, I think I know those guys.
I mean, how many hooded thugs could there be in Oaktown.
gee bet that video’s gonna be a hit.
The thuggish culture of death strikes again.
Try not to let this destroy your faith in the hip-hop community.
I shouldn’t be so flip, the poor little kid deserved none of this, but if he had survived, he would have worn all of it. This goes back to LBJ and the Great Society. Nice work, Dems.
It’s infuriating watching Jews vote for palpable anti-Semites. It’s heartbreaking to watch blacks sell their patrimony for a mess of pottage.
As one commenter on the video said, “the video will help them identify the brand of shoes people were wearing”. Now they can identify some suspects. ROFL!!!!
Some folks will say it could happen anywhere.
RIP Hiram
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