Rich the Kid’s artist Lil Tony — real name Antonio Davenport — has been arrested for the August shooting death of a 9-year-old Durham boy named Z’Yon Person. He was already in jail on unrelated charges.
ABC 11 Durham reports Davenport was charged on Tuesday morning (October 15) at the Durham County Jail. According to the Durham County Sheriff’s Office website, Davenport is facing a litany of charges, including first-degree murder, felony conspiracy and possession of firearm by a felon.
Davenport is also facing attempted first degree murder charges for allegedly injuring an 8-year-old in the process. Person’s family said he was one of five children in a vehicle on the way to Pelican’s SnoBalls.
“I hear a horn and when the horn beeped I looked around,” Z’Yon’s aunt, Danyell Ragland, told ABC11. “I’m getting ready to turn and … I hear gunshots, but I didn’t know they were shooting at me. They’re going to pay. I promise. They’re going to rot in hell for what they did.”
Davenport wasn’t offered a chance to bond out. He’ll be assigned a public defender and return to court on November 21.
“The arrest is the result of relentless hard work by members of the Durham Police Department with assistance from the FBI’s Safe Streets Task Force,” Durham Police Chief C.J. Davis said. “Our officers and investigators, with support from concerned and engaged community members, will continue the fight against gun violence in our city.”
Davenport is part of the group 83 Babies, which signed to Rich Forever Music in March. The trio’s “No Cap” video was released in May and featured guest vocals from Rich.
He’ll be okay. By the time he gets out, he’ll have earned enough street cred to finally become as big as Drake or Kendrick. No such thing as bad publicity, right?
If he did shoot and kill that young boy, I hope he gets everything that is coming and due him along with the others!
I mean, he is an 8 Tray Gangster Crip that raps about putting guys on T Shirts. The kid was collateral damage, he don’t give a fuck…
Now there’s only 82 Babies :/
If you ain’t ever been to the ghetto
Don’t ever come to the ghetto
Cause you wouldn’t understand the ghetto
And stay the f**k out of the ghetto
Will do. You enjoy your “ghetto” while I enjoy eating In-n-Out in my nice bricked home and listening to “ghetto” music in my warm room because my parents taught me the value of an education and hard work in order to buy myself my BMW w/ good credit. Oh… don’t forget; my shit came w/ leather. #Holler
You’re eating fast food in your home because you don’t know how to season chicken and neither did your mother. You live vicariously through the lives of hip hop artists and the underclass in general, while you enjoy your privilege and secretly mock poor folk. You know you’re a coward in real life. You know your girl likes blacks and latinos…you know the reasons my guy.
You still lose tho. You big mad too. He right my man. He right. Black people only kill other black people.
…and whites kill everybody? So whats your point?
Let it be known…louder for the whites in the back
i always wanna back you guys when people bein racist to black ppl but then u start being racist to whites to get back at em u dont need to fight racism with racism bro
That’s a bunch of bullshit black people kill people just like white people. Only blacks my fking ass
1) You must be talking about Rick Ross – the guy who fits all the abovementioned descriptions. 2) I’m gay, i don’t like girls, stop making assumptions about my sexuality.
Nah bro, we eating vegan out on these estates. Chicken? Please leave that in the ghetto. Until you know the pleasures of a catered meal – served with a side of pheasant and sturgeon eggs. It’s confusing to me that people always say, “your girl likes blacks and latinos” haha like, if she does.. then she’s not my girl right? We will let those camps settle their own beef and kill each other. Someone should take a logic class. The only “extremely successful” hip hop artists live vicariously through the minds of old white men. It’s true – look it up!
How are you “eating vegan” but also eating “pheasant and eggs”. If you’re going to troll, try at least to make sense.
I think who ever posted DONT COME 2 GHETTO,BLAH,BLAH should get a grip…thats the mind set that makes it the ghetto,bro….because u live in an area thats not all new and shiny doesnt mean u have 2 act like garbage…i live in an older nieghborhood,have 4 years but doesnt mean i act like an animal,havent murdered or run around stealing…if everyone had sense enough 2 respect where they lived and their behavior it would no longer be a ghetto…
He looks innocent. I’m sure he didn’t do anything wrong. He is a good boy.
Definitely not! 83 babies as in crip gang he aint innocent at all.
83 babies ….1 down….82 to go…keep up the work…
Is he in there for life ?
Yo do any of these rapper have any brain, Period! every freaking day one of these fool get arrested and send away for life is that the way to become a rapper, you must go to jail to do 25 with a L, that crazy
If he actually did this and killed a kid, they should give him life in solitary.
He should die himself
His baby mama snitched on him because he beat their infant baby for crying, then beat her too. Word is, he threatened to shoot the baby… his own damned child.
Anyone who thinks he’s innocent is a moron.
Lmao what a bunch of idiots, and I mean the people leaving comments not the rapper hahahha
This ninha dumb just like all black s are
U really soubd like a racist ass & yes I’m Black…