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UPDATE: 23-year-old Thomas Norman was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after the double stabbing that occurred during a party thrown at RZA’s home by his adult children.
According to newly released court documents, the Wu-Tang Clan was investigated by the FBI in 1999 as part of a double homicide case. The police files from a court case that culminated last year, finding two men guilty of running a 20-year drug ring and initiating two murders, were released to the public.
According to Spin, in one of the documents requested public by lawyer Michael Gold, the gunman in one of the murders Jerome “Boo Boo” Estrella and Corey “Shank Bank” Brooker is interviewed. He stated that members of the Wu-Tang Clan instructed the murder as “revenge for robberies” of Raekwon and RZA’s family members:
A couple of weeks before the Boo Boo shooting, Uncles (the street name of drug supplier-turned-informant Paul Ford) told Humphreys about a Blood named Boo Boo who just came home from jail. He stated that Boo Boo had robbed RZA’s little brother and had also gotten into something with the Christian brothers. Uncles was talking about Boo Boo and said that he had just come home and robbed RZA’s brother and that they would likely come after him for that. Humphreys believes Uncles was referring to members of Wu Tang.
Further in the document, music producer and rapper RZA is accused by the informant, Paul Ford, of issuing a $30,000 contract for the killings. Lawyer Michael Gold told the Staten Island Advance:
These reports seem to suggest someone else was liable for those murders. I’m not suggesting that Wu-Tang committed these crimes. The FBI did. What I’m trying to ascertain is their stated belief in an official file that Wu-Tang ordered this homicide.
The New York City hip hop group recently performed at the Riot Fest and Fun Fun Fun Fest after announcing that their latest album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, may only see release commercially in 88 years.
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