Just days after aspiring Inglewood rapper Indian Red Boy was murdered, gun violence has struck the rap community once again.
According to The Chicago Tribune, Chicago rapper KTS Dre (real name Londre Sylvester) was shot roughly 64 times in the head and other parts of his body on Saturday night (July 10) as he was leaving Cook County Jail.
Police discovered 59 shell casings scattered across the 2700 block of West 27th Street in Little Village around 8:50 p.m. local time. The 31-year-old man was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later.
A 60-year-old woman who was with KTS Dre at the scene was struck in the knee and treated at Stroger Hospital. Another woman, who happened to be walking around in the area at the time, suffered a graze wound to the mouth and was ultimately listed in good condition at Mount Sinai.
“It appears Sylvester was the intended target while (the women) were inadvertently struck,” the police report states. “[Sylvester had] just been released from custody and was fitted for electronic monitoring as a condition of his bail.”
He and the 60-year-old woman were walking “to an awaiting vehicle when several unknown (suspects) exited two separate vehicles and all began to shoot in Sylvester’s direction, striking him numerous times.”
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KTS Dre was taken into custody last month after he violated his bail bond and a judge set his bail at $50,000. Court records show he able to post the required $5,000 bail on Friday (July 9).
Dre’s last Instagram post was only a few days ago and in a cruel twist of fate, found him paying tribute to his brother KTS Von who was reportedly killed in 2015.
A woman claiming to be his sister wrote in the comment section, “My big brother. you with Granny now. She gone take care of you babe. Damn. Love you to pieces.”
HipHopDX sends our condolence to KTS Dre’s friends and family.
In today’s era, being a rapper is a death sentence more than it is to be just being black in America and if you’re a black rapper in America….Ohhh Weee!!!! You’d lucky to make it past your 30s. Something’s gotta change.
Bunch of idiots shooting each other for stupid reasons. And they keep saying is the white people holding us back. Motherfuckers are living in the past
You right. We are our worst enemy. Something, someday has got to change. Until then, Prayers Up!
Right outside the county jail though. And no police involvement where they patrol this area faithfully. Smh its definitely more to the story.
Black lives matter is joke every time i see something like this. Don’t even mention it again. Black folks are their own worst enemy. Just go ahead and keep killing and say how other people are holding you back. Buffoonery.
The black on black crime is rooted in money drugs and territory, gang shit. BLM is about police brutality. That is totally separate from black people out here trying to make it legally and legitimately and being discriminated against. Stop linking all black people together we have our own individual thoughts and opinions and we all not complaining or shooting. Buffoonery is walking home from work and white boys yelling n***** out the car or hanging noose up in 2021 or the police chief that left that racist ass note on the black officers desk. There’s your buffoonery!! All white people not racist there are many that are logical thinking humans that empathize and stand with us. It’s easy to say what should or shouldn’t be when you not the one experiencing it.
So uhh.. when’s the #BlackLivesMatter demonstration? *..crickets..crickets..*
Its funny you think you’re clever
Black lives matter was intended to bring light to the police brutality that blacks and other minorities suffer through. The ongoing drug/gang violence is separate. This shit ain’t no game!! I don’t know what homeboy did to deserve 64 shots but here’s another family mourning. So tired of the BLM jokes.
This is what they want us to do, deflect from the actual matter at hand which is police beating asses!! Mfs talk about BLM more than the beatings and killings and that’s what they want. How long y’all gone fall for the okey doke. Let’s see the jokes when it’s your people laying there.
Seems like you fell for the okey doke.
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
WHITE PEOPLE KILL WHITE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME IN MASS SHOOTINGS.
NO ONE SAYS “ALL LIVES MATTER” WHEN IT HAPPENS, SOUNDS DUMB.
IF REDLINING, GERRYMANDERING, SEGREGATION, KKK, SLAVERY, ATTACKS ON RECONSTRUCTION DIDN’T HAPPEN, YOU WOULDN’T HAVE THIS.
WE TRIED, ALOT, AND STILL CONTINUE TO DO SO
So…if you feel signified and important, asking if black lives matter… they do.
Unfortunately, when surviving and one way of life is all you know… this is what happens
Its soooo easy to judge from the outside looking in, but have your internet fun.
Facts!
You smell like someone who feels they deal with and combat racism daily and what comes in mind is the internet. This is the experience you get to share with your seeds. Enjoy the article of these individual scum dying and enjoy your day, its one less mass killer in the streets preying on African Americans of all neighborhoods. Side note, the group identity is cringe.