A close relative of Damond Dawson warned the 23-year-old aspiring rapper of hanging out at the wrong areas. Especially when the sun went down.
Now, he’s deceased and investigators are searching for his killer.
Shots rang out in the early morning hours of yesterday, April 19 in Chicago’s Foster Park at 1440 W. 84th St., located within the Gresham neighborhood, where Dawson was shot in the back in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. Four others including a female teenager who was shot in the groin and another man who took nine shots to the leg and shoulder were also admitted to Advocate Christ Medical Center. They all were listed in stable condition.
All of the injured males were related to Dawson, as they are his brother and second cousins.
“He was trying to rap; that’s what he was trying to do,” Dawson’s aunt, Angela Mathis-Tate tearfully told the Chicago-Tribune. “He might be on some YouTube things that they have on their iPhone’s…Thugga, that’s what we call him.”
She also assured he was “a good kid” and wasn’t involved in gangbanging, despite dropping out of high school in the eleventh grade.
Dawson and his rap group were filming their video to their independent record “Two Techs and a 50 Shot,” when the shooting ironically occurred. While the victims refused to speak with the media, rapper “Foreign Lyfe,” who was on the scene, gave his point of view on the deadly incident.
“I heard my homie say that he had seen somebody pulling up or whatever. We turned around and look back again, quick as we looked back, started shooting,” he recalled to ABC7 Chicago. Shots coming from everywhere…”
Chicago police currently have no one in custody and are also investigating eight other shootings that occurred the West and South sides that evening to mid-morning.
“It’s always drama up there. Nothing but drama … I told my nephew, please don’t be going up to that park,” Mathis-Tate continued. “They say, ‘We’re not, we’re not,’ and that’s what they always tell us. The area is particularly dangerous for young men.”
Ok…. But….who is Dawson?
his own family used to call him thugga lol that says everything you need to know about them
The irony. Malcolm X fought for this?
Everytime I read these articles it always, ALWAYS has some dumb fucking quote from a parent or relative that makes the child’s death sound like a game (calling your child by his rap name rather than real name shit like that). If this senseless shit is to stop, it starts with the parents. Beat your kids, beat the bully outcher little bastards. But….that’s easy for me to say, behind a keyboard.
Two Techs and a 50 Shot? SMH
real niggas in chiraq. None of these internet niggas would survive.
It’s lame asf these same “underground”,”unsigned”,”struggle rappers” wish so badly you so-called hip hop blog sites like HipHopDx would cover their music so it could open up opportunities for them in music BUT the only time you clowns cover them is when a crime is attached to there name…THEN you finally mention their name and call them a rapper all so you could have a bunch of sanctimonious fools in the comments section speaking about how dumb all involved are! This is being a Vulture of other people’s pains and miseries while trying to position yourselves as ‘smarter than that’ f.a.y!
Talk that all..they don’t fuckin hear U tho!!!????????
*talk*
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Chicago niggas you guys do you know you sorry ass niggas are the laughing stock of the country right? All that dumb shit you’re doing isn’t doing you or your dumbass city any favors. And you morons refuse to do anything about it.
Seriously fuck Chicago.
You commenting like you know what Chicago like in real life. You going off what you seen in the media. If you want to know how it is in a world class city bring yo dusty ass up to the city see for yourself. Gangs are everywhere so are rappers making violent music. It ain’t a crime to shoot a video. So respect for the fallen B.
You commenting like you know what Chicago like in real life. You going off what you seen in the media. If you want to know how it is in a world class city bring yo dusty ass up to the city see for yourself. Gangs are everywhere so are rappers making violent music. It ain’t a crime to shoot a video. So respect for the fallen B.
You commenting like you know what Chicago like in real life. You going off what you seen in the media. If you want to know how it is in a world class city bring yo dusty ass up to the city see for yourself. Gangs are everywhere so are rappers making violent music. It ain’t a crime to shoot a video. So respect for the fallen B.
Black Wall Street was a thing until you piece of shit crackas did what you did… I’m here with the Easter Bunny right now though so it’s all good.
You used Irony WRONG
So sad another wanna be rapper gunned down! Two techs and a 50 shot guess he didn’t have either .. Chiraq is no joke .. Next story
Couldn’t have said it better myself oh wait you left out he was a good boy an aspiring rapper ! Get the fuck outta here w that BS‼️
lol always “He’s a good kid.” Call him Thugga and recording a song called “Two techs and a 50 shot.” If he wasn’t a gangbanger he damn sure crossed one. All these killings are terrible. RIP
Scarface is that you?
he was one of the best to ever grab the microphone, real artist, real talent, and all that shit that is always talked about somebody that gets killed in the rap game
#BlackLivesMatter
Damn, one homie took 9 shots to the leg, thats crazy. R.I.P
Hashtag saying black lives matter is racist and ridiculous. Divide and conquer. Even the term black on black crime is a joke. You get away with black on black crime because these brothers have their bullsh*t omertà code of the streets, when they get jammed up they snitch in a hurry. They never give the cops any leads unless they get leant on. Pull up to a park in downtown Chicago and shoot someone with all of those white films around. You will go to jail. Probably get the needle. The difference is, those white folks will film you, testify and throw you in jail.
Black lives matter is a joke. All lives matter. We are supposed to care more or less because it was a black kid? His family called him Thugga. He was recording a video for a song called two techs and a 50 shot. He was killed either for gangbanging bullshit, or even worse fronting. How does his life matter more than a family man of any race, black or not dying hit by a drunk driver. Shit like this keeps black America down. Stupid idea. Black lives matter. Seriously?
But on the real, he was a nice boy who never gang banged and had dreams of being a doctor and helping the world. He may have knew of gang bangers, but he didn’t associate or befriend any gang bangers. He was studying hard to finish his GED so he could attend college.