Rapper C***idy is wanted in Philadelphia for the murder of a 22-year-old man during an April 15 shooting. A warrant for his arrest was issued on June 8.
Michael Giampietro, C***idy's attorney, said he expects his client will surrender himself
to authorities on Friday morning. A police spokesperson said when he does, C***idy will be charged with conspiracy, weapons possession and homicide.
According to police, C***idy (real name Barry Reese) and two other men, armed with .45 and .40 caliber handguns, 9 mm pistols, AK47 ***ault rifles and 7.62 mm rifles, fired on three other men during an argument that unfolded behind a house in the rapper's northwest Philadelphia neighborhood just before 1 a.m. on April 15.
One of the men who was shot, Desmond Hawkins, 22, of Philadelphia, died from a gunshot wound to the back. The two other men were treated at area hospitals for gunshot wounds and subsequently released.
Police said a second warrant was also issued for 23-year-old Abdul West, also of Philadelphia, who, along with C***idy, was one of the three shooters involved in the incident. Homicide detectives have been unable to identify the third shooter. Police were not immediately clear as to what C***idy's connection might have been to the two other shooters. But according to a spokesperson for the department, all of the men involved "knew each other."
The three victims were reportedly unarmed at the time.
C***idy, the first MC of significance to be supported by Swizz Beatz's J-affiliated Full Service label, will release his sophomore album, I'm a Hustla, on June 28.
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