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Miami Florida when you see my city you see Ocean Drive you see Collins Avenue you see palm trees you see the beaches you see the beautiful woman you see the luxury cars now with breaking news out of Northwest Miami D where a person has been found shot investigation is under way after a fatal shooting that claimed the life of 19-year-old St up the you see that's not my city that's not [Applause] Miami [ __ ] [ __ ] guarante going me locker with the with the [ __ ] [ __ ] easy young [ __ ] do your

greasy like I go by the name of young sleep think running off on that plug easy better check your F like Point li like Trey Wingo like the welcome y'all to tr lingo we were like 9 to5 when my pot missing off 40 second without a pot to pissing Young niggaer on the different Mission had a different plan but still had vision slanging Coke instead of CT and picking was the only cold off in the block I live in one hit of this and it's over making I thous when I work that SW pull the kid over at firs

t I was dreaming this time around but I break more than even get the 40 on reach you the last one to trust and you Splash In The Deep my formation on defense in the game of breaks me money more frequent so s boy me I'm getting all your money [Music] thisas with the L real [ __ ] [ __ ] guarante going me Palm Beach with the L Florida [ __ ] with the L [ __ ] [ __ ] feel meing you see that's not my city that's not Miami Miami is on the other side out of that bridge that's when you walk and you see

what's really going on the violence the murder it's death tank a ride come ride with me over here on this side of the street and this dead flat broke over here like you feel me tumble weed is floating so I feel like over here you going to get both best of both words and if you if you work if you know what you doing like here you feel me you could get somewhere like far like easy you feel Miami one of the places millions of people come every year for the first time and we live here so we kind of

grew up in this [ __ ] take it for granted we can ride to the beach all the time or get around these type of people but we don't see it as an opportunity of night cuz you know we used to it but to somebody who really tasting their dream or doing whatever that why they come down here and try to you know what I'm saying take advantage of everything that's down here you feel me so I said a place of opportunity like New York or Cali feel me definitely one of the main you know what I'm saying stompi

ng ground to like do whatever like in life anything well the generation that was coming up in the 90s was it was wild back then but right now see cuz back then we were involved with gangs so I was a leader of one of the biggest gangs in day County and back then there was more organization so there was rules right now these jits they just killing the kill they ain't even aiming dog they just shooting wild you know and they just hitting babies and everybody's getting killed so I I feel like they g

ot no sense of direction no organizations I feel like it's more like neighborhood clicks now with no rules so a lot of people dying because of that situation and it's just innocent people that are dying instead of handling your business with whoever you got beef with you know you you killing the wrong people as far as tourist the way I look at tourist they they actually come for the beach they actually come for the beach cuz they get brochures or whatever they see in the beach they see Hotel the

y seeing live parties they seeing once or twice kod but they really not coming down to see the city certain people come down and they want to come through the city but they ain't going to come through Liberty City they tell them we've been in Miami but where you been at um South Beach Bickle uh you ain't really been in Miami you just seeing the the things that they put on the internet for you like they go straight to Google going to Miami you on that side you don't really come across the bridge

unless you're going to the heat [Music] man it's great I won't lie this the safest place in America [ __ ] crazy young [ __ ] killing for nothing like you know what I'm saying we was growing up at least you be bu some money or something but right now it's just for nothing like [ __ ] just brush you you feel me just cuz feel me so that [ __ ] crazy but it's all on us you know what I'm saying you know back then in the 80s it was for drugs drug territory people were trying to get money you know and

then the gangs started growing in Miami so and it was over over drugs and and Ries and stuff you know trying to come up and make money as a unit and right now it's just for nothing it's social media beef like you got beef on Facebook and people murking each other and they just doing Drive buys without aiming and kids are getting hit [ __ ] man my dog just walking another day got shot at when it was like two days ago [ __ ] like that you can just be walking like right now it can happen right now

[ __ ] can hit that cone and cameraman ducking right now right here right now right now right now could go down right now you know what I'm saying right now right now it could go down but like I said we be ready for whatever you know I'm saying we done the Strong Survive we out here you feel me people you see out here because they really like you know what I'm saying don't point out here but this [ __ ] could go down we are the circle of Brotherhood and the circle of Brotherhood is an organized

group of primarily black men from every Walk of Life uh we like to say from the streets to the suits we have individuals in the circle of Brotherhood that have uh donees some very disruptive things in the community may have done double digit years in prisons and we got others who've never seen the back of a police car we have some who are Muslims some who are Christian but we're United together in one walk and one work and as to be involved in solving our own Community problems well I can say o

ne of the things we do is we serve as a model of what's possible I come from a background of law enforcement uh Congressional staff members so I've worked on Capitol Hill uh however what I'm demonstrating here is the fact that Brothers like myself can still relate to and associate with individuals who I used to put in the back of the police car right my St pull up 30 shots [ __ ] with the with just dodging the cops and getting this but I keep me a Glock put one at the top I put one in your top a

nd all my [ __ ] getting money we loveo we just [ __ ] these stops 21 on top 21 be the game so you know it can't stop all my [ __ ] got my pull up on YouRock that top I been getting little Got That B po if I fake get how the [ __ ] I make play you SJ got a 30 in my pants I'm let that try to play you get your [ __ ] flop G [ __ ] you can get bullets at Walmart for AK-47 223 you can get them from between $20 to about 50 just depending on how many rounds you need it's very easy to get my hands on a

military type weapon that will cause harm to people it's easy well when people bring up the question about whether there's awareness around gun violence in Miami or not there's always been awareness but today's different I'm not against guns if it's in the right hands and it's to protect yourself it being so accessible is getting in the wrong hands it's getting into teenagers hands hell yeah it's necessary to have a gun in Miami you feel me and why I say that you feel me like I keep a gun but I

'm a convicted felon but you know I keep [ __ ] around me with gun license and [ __ ] but this [ __ ] ain't safe little kids getting hit [ __ ] shooting with they eyes closed everybody want to name you feel me so [ __ ] like [ __ ] [ __ ] up so you better be strapped me as a grown man it's hard for me alone to control a military rifle imagine a teenager trying to control a military rifle everything crazy you feel me like you feel me our Hood our Hood different you feel me like [ __ ] Vibe differ

ent everybody like we talk different you feel me how we chill how we everything just different feel me like different [ __ ] around here so the [ __ ] that happen to be different you feel me like ain't no [ __ ] really coming in our Hood sliding on us you feel me it's [ __ ] that's leaving our Hood getting sour coming back in our Hood you feel me like that's how [ __ ] go down ain't no [ __ ] no outside [ __ ] killing us man ain't no outside [ __ ] say they scoring [ __ ] Ain't scoring on us man

you feel me we scoring on each other so this [ __ ] crazy all across the board you can't solve a problem that's an inside Problem by putting things on the outside we have a cultural problem of violence in America I'm not against the second amendment that you have the right to bear arms I think you know in the society that we live in today you should have have the right to protect yourself but there has to be more barriers look guns don't kill people people with guns and bad intentions and so we

're not in this to get uh any movement on gun legislation we're not in this to get any movement on uh any new laws passed people can solve this problem when people are involved we have to make it more tough for people to get their hands on a gun it has to be true requirements or true barriers put in place to not make it so easily accessible and getting them in the wrong hands no [ __ ] every day man every day is gun violence [ __ ] every day every time I leave the house I got to tote my pistol a

nd I'm a two time convicted felon reason being cuz I got [ __ ] hating [ __ ] mad for no reason you feel me everybody want to be tough you feel me so they got you got to be stra bro like that that [ __ ] every day a [ __ ] go to the club every time a [ __ ] go to the club [ __ ] got to leave the club on point you feel me [ __ ] doped up drunk whatever whatever dope you on you still got to be on point bro so that [ __ ] like crazy like every day we live in this [ __ ] when an individual has a wea

pon and another individual encounters that individual and a conflict ensues a deadly force scenario is automatically created because the other person has a weapon so when you have a weapon on you any interaction that you can engage in is a deadly force situation because you have a weapon so as a police officer there had to be tremendous restraint and discipline when it came to dealing with the public because of the fact that you have a weapon here because of the crime rate and they'll come get y

ou for one of these you feel me you don't know how many people he got to feed in this household you don't know what he did in his lifetime to be a [ __ ] up at that time you feel me so necessary yeah you got to be a to protect I can't protect myself if I a't got it what I'm a fighter girl you can't not saying this is the lion's then this ain't the Lion's then not you got to have it you better have it you better have it or you probably be next you feel me being where we at if y'all look at the mu

rder rate you know what I'm saying definitely should have a gun I know matter of fact poppy just got KT out other day he I'm on his lawn [ __ ] jit ran up on him took his took his chain brushed him took his chain and cleared it you know what I'm saying broad daylight man a he was more than his lawn it was all on camera you know what I'm saying [ __ ] ran up hit him took his [ __ ] and cleared it you know what I'm saying so if he would have had a gun on him while he more L he probably would have

been better but you know [ __ ] like that um I grew up in opal in back blues better known as back D okay look I say welcome to oppr Locker dead County 305 we getting money my [ __ ] and well known the slide bodies be dropping daily they call that homicides crackers don't have a clue cuz we keep our miles quiet s we run them daily and pass them down to the crew it's no love my [ __ ] just money cars and Clos that Black Flag a must YW wearing Co snitches they get exposed the Gun Down by Oaks have

you ever seen a dead body get scoop off the floor I tell you it's nothing nice them Souls hunt you at night I seen a man die cuz he wanted on the dice these streets they ain't right this jungle will take your life snakes will set you up for lion tigers and bears them PE they going watch they up and down the block but when they hit that B Street is toe tag in a box friends they ain't your friends and every female ain't sweet you show them you cupcake and them bad girls going to eat might set you

up for the free or they might just call me remember back on the script back when I wasn't legit my daddy was well known to kill and sell Brit he did his time in the fs and all he ain't snitch he did his time in the F and all he ain't snitch welcome to op Locker welcome to op Locker welcome to op Locker welcome to op Locker this home of Toppers home of Toppers home of to this home of Toppers welcome to op Locker welcome to op Locker welcome to Locker welcome to op Locker this home Choppers home o

f Choppers home Chopper this home Choppers you feel me black [ __ ] lot of trouble seen a lot of different things remember walking outside my door at 5 years old and seeing helicopters surrounding the buildings people running as a 5-year-old kid you know you shouldn't be seeing that even though all that was going on you know life was good I was still content with my life I was happy as a child as far as I can remember as a child he was a happy kid very joyous kid mild and meek Spirit he was very

outgoing very playful a happy kid a joyful kid and then he had to learn how to be strong because he had four sisters so he was the only male child that I had so it was a lot of women in the house so he was clingy more so to his father having my mother my father my sister's life was good then he had his own mind he was a child that had his own mind his own Direction even from a small child he would go outside and play even when it came down to when we put put him in football he knew he had pract

ice he had to be there a certain time and he would just go ask I get so mad at him like you can wait have patience I'm going to take you to practice it's like M I have to get there I have to get there my coach waiting the relationship between Anon and his father was very close he was always always take him with him he will always talk to him always encourage him and motivate him to me I call him life lessons things that he would teach him I remember one time andon took some money and when we not

iced some money was missing we was looking for the money and the kids he had brought all the kids in the neighborhood candy potato chips so he took him and he was just telling him listen you have to understand that you have to ask for things you just don't take things when you want you have to you have to ask for things you have to pay for them and if I tell you no then that's what it is I don't want you to have it you can't always have what you want so it's just like he was teaching him a lot o

f lessons about life at a young age um fast forward to 87 fast forward to AG s [Music] so hard to talk about this [Music] [Music] man fact forward to age seven my life changed [Music] forever um 4 days before my birthday March 20th to be exact now p.m. that night I was laying on my bed and I heard gunshots go off you know I get up and I look outside and I see someone being shot I'm on the second floor so it's hard to tell who it is and it's crazy as a kid that didn't fighting me because I was us

ed to [Music] that I still see the person being shot and I decide to go into my sheets um later on that night my auntie came and got us and I just remember walking past the [Music] scene you know I think nothing then and then the next day you know we don't go to school cuz happened on a Tuesday we don't go to school so I'm happy I see my mom get out the car her eyes is blushed shot red I never seen my mother look like that [Music] before and then you know they take us inside and they set us down

on the couch and everybody's Gathering and you don't like what's wrong everybody refrained from crying now that I think about it um my granny s me next to her [Music] my grandma sits me next to her [Music] and they said Anton something went wrong with your father like okay what happened she said your father was shot [Music] I say she [Music] okay next word that come out I'm out change my life forever say he's [Music] dead life changes from there [Music] I mean my father he was my everything man

everything I am today I refer back to my father words he was my everything I I felt safe when my father was here I knew he would always protect me when I was young but I knew he had my best interest at heart rather it was us leaving football practice and he just reassured me that I'd be okay rather it was you know him telling me to be a leader not being a follower he was just my rock at s such a young age and it was so much that I didn't get to explore or get to tell him or so many advice that

I didn't receive from him as a kid you looking forward to that and to have him snatched what tooken from me so prematurely hurts he lost his Joy after he lost his father he started getting in trouble fighting becoming angry when my father passed things got tough she was the only parent around and her shift was 3 to 11 you know my father would usually watch us around that time and my mom couldn't change her shift because she still had to work and she still had to provide for us and only having on

e income for the household things were tough it was five of us five kids five mous to feed you know things got so tough that it was nights where my mom made sure we ate before she did it was tough that you know we didn't have hot water for a while I didn't know what to do how it was going to go on how I'm going to raise these kids without him he was that factor in school he always went to the parent Teachers Conference to me he was always there so to lose that factor it was like heartbreaking it

was devastating it was like why how I was just lost as a kid you know when your mom's at work 3: to 11: it's free ball game so getting out of school around 3:00 and then knowing I had 8 hours to run the streets that's exactly what I did at the age seven after finding that out I didn't know who did it I wanted to kill the man that killed my father and it's crazy and I never told no one this but I put a mission in my head that day that I wanted to kill the man that killed my father and I wanted h

im to feel the pain that I felt I wanted to kill the man that killed my father how did I do [Music] it well I had my mom then I had my grandmother I had my sister I had my brothers everybody pitched in and their grandmother and their uncles everybody pitched in where they embraced us to help us through this situation it was that Village that I needed that pitched in to help me raise my kids Uncle Junior he was a troubl troubl team he got into hanging with the wrong crowd and he got into trouble

my husband their father always tried to keep him away from trouble but he wind up getting into a situation where he was hanging with his friends and he caught a serious charge at a young age he got out and he ran back into when he got released he ran back into the same to the same environment got back around the same friends and got right back in trouble again he got shot four times in his leg because that's because when they started shooting he hit the floor of the car and his legs was up but h

ad he been sitting up he probably wouldn't be with us today I've been in prison for a couple thing my first time going to prison I went to prison for AR Roby car jacking battery on the Leo I dead like a year got out then I went back a year and a half later and for attempted murder caught 15 years for that did 10 got out then I went back I had got caught trafficing heroin I went to prison for that got back out then I went back to prison because of a murder I did like seven years on the murder cha

rge and got out and I ain't been back since my family on my father's side is originally from Trinidad and Caracas Venezuela uh they moved over here I believe when my father was 10 years old I wanted that male figure around my kids because I knew his father wasn't here and he would be that dominating Factor to help me keep them on track to keep them going down the right path in the right direction he came in and tried to feel the void of not having a father and just trying to get me to do the opp

osite of what he went through because he went through that street life as I say we always preach what we went through we don't want our kids and he didn't want his nephews to go through the same things that he went through and that he experienced so he knew the path and direction if he stayed in certain areas and certain environments that he would follow well my brother was trapping on 15 in a public enemy spot then you had John Doe cross 62nd that had the whole 61 58 the whole Tri Tri tricircle

locked down and all them dudes who had spots in them areas John do ran all them dudes out of there they ran out of there tried to find places they to take over and keep their operation going and just so happened they tried to take my brother spot some dudes my brother start war with them dudes for me it was hard my brother end up killing a few of them dudes it was a every everyday process cuz I grieved and I cried when the feds came in Liberty City and took everybody to jail and ran everybody o

ut of there my brother left out of there and went to another area to the point where my mother was said somebody going to kill you somebody going to hurt you and them dude had family members and friends or whatever and they wanted they wanted Revenge I even went to the doctor she was trying to give me zantax but I didn't want to become dependent upon a substance and somehow some kind of way through through that Pro right there my brother had feeling my brother was the cause and so that's how my

brother got killed and when my brother got killed I felt like I died with him cuz a lot of people don't know how to grieve a lot of people commit suicide cuz I was at a point where I contemplated suicide that just put my mind in a whole another state where I felt like life wasn't worth living anymore because my brother wasn't here developing at 7:00 bullets flying in a South Florida neighborhood killing a father outside his front door Miami date police and opaka police are continuing to investig

ate this deadly shooting here that happened in opaka just after 10:00 last night it happened just outside the family's apartment that's actually around the back side of this building after my brother died and I got out I tried to feel the void with Antoine and his little sister by being a father figure in their life he was a motivational factors about getting out of the neighborhood when we moved from our grandma we moved to car city which is now known as Miami Gardens things got worse they they

're home alone it's like my kids grown up by the themselves I'm not always there so I'm trying to find balance between work between my kids and it was rough but after my father's death I was intentionally looking for fights I was daring people to try me or mess with me during school hours they would remove me from class and take me away into the cafeteria and especially with my anger that I still had built inside of me that's when it that that's how it got worse going to Carol City on Miami Gard

ens I was still young I was about 12 13 years old I was looking to fight anybody you know I had people that was with me and they knew what press my buttons or when we was around somebody that we didn't like you know they would just say I dare you to talk about his father why dare you to say anything like somebody didn't have to say anything all they had to say was your father I ran to him immediately and I just started beating him up trying to hit his head against the concrete then I continue to

just pound him just you know just trying to make a point just beating him up just trying to do serious damage to this kid and not letting him get away and really starting liking it Willie is a friend that I met in Carol City he was one of my closest friends we grew to be close and some other friends that we hung out every day after school just you know doing young boy things looking for fights to get into I didn't even want Twan and his sisters to ever be back around there again but I wanted th

em out of there because I knew the dangers that came with that you know so I always was like pushing them man get out of there get out of there I moved from that area that's when I moved back to my grandma and Willie and I lost connection about two years later he and I reconnected over Myspace and it was a party that was happening happen in that week he was like you know I'm going to this party fast forward to that Friday I just know I'm going to this party it's rare that my mom ever told me no

I knew about the gangs the violence and everything that was going on in the neighborhoods I'm dressed already I already got my outfit on I'm dressed I'm ready to go I did have that sense of all that feeling that something could or would happen I'm not even asking her I'm like Mom I'm going to go to this party she says no I felt like something would happen and if it did happen he wouldn't be there when it happened you know we didn't stay too far away from the place where the party was and you hea

r shots but you know I think nothing of it and then the next day I get back on my space and then I see rest in peace Willie go crazy like my best friend get guns down for me it was like wow just thinking like that could have been my child like how would my life would be if I lost my only son and letting him know that hey if I had not said no you would have been lay next to him you know allegedly he was shot 15 times my mindset changes from there when Willie passed away that's when it got real I

noticed that people wasn't fighting anymore and I was a fist fighting person but when Willie died and you see someone your age is murdered that's when it popped in my head that I need to get a gun to protect myself trouble started to come around so I was looking for trouble and especially the environments that we were in trouble wasn't hard to find my my uncle who was released from prison I think he figured it out that I was heading towards trouble I know what the gang life is about he just knew

the environment that we was growing up in he wasn't blind to that environment like he knew that street life a girl a girl of mine right she had uh she seen a picture Antoine on MySpace holding the AK-47 in in in our backyard with gang Flags tied on and I was like what the [ __ ] is this he and I had it out to to see him in that picture it it was real disturbing and and I got in this chest I was like man what is you doing and he and I almost fought me knowing the gang gang gang activity I was li

ke look you can't fool me so I end up grounding them cuz I never beef with my nephew I never raised the hand never never even raised the voice at him that was the only time that I ever ever had to and I and it hurted me so much but I had to do it and if they had to came down to me having to really put my hands on him to get his attention I would have because you know why that his dad used to do to me he put passion to make sure that I didn't go down that road he took it as uncle love me that muc

h and I'm grateful that he done that cuz had I wouldn't ain't no telling what my nephew would be at the DAT and then after that they brought him back for a different charge and then finally they deemed him a a threat they just felt like he was getting too much trouble and he wasn't an original citizen in us so they made the decision to deport him back to Venezuela he did did he got deported well I'm going to keep it real with you my past has caused me to to have to live in Venezuela all the wron

g I done all the bad things I've done no matter how you may hear it and it may sound glorifying to your ears it's not because I was kicked out of America and deported back to Venezuela now I rather come here then have to spend the rest of my life in prison Street violence on a comparison from here to Venezuela you see more of it in Miami but it's happening in Venezuela it happens in Venezuela but you don't see it as common and as much as you see it just out in Miami cuz you know Miami promote th

at [ __ ] Miami put your murder put your robbery on Facebook Instagram and all those things Venezuela they don't do all of that and then Venezuela it's not it's not like you could just go from Car City to Liberty City on the straight road and you see all these different neighborhoods Venezuela you got to ride through up in down mountains and through valleys and and you get to a barrier or or a big neighborhood you may not even go in there cuz how dangerous you hear it is well I feel like I feel

like I'm at home really Miami to me is the most dangerous cuz you don't know when you going to die down there you walking and don't know when you going to die you could be standing here right now and drop the next moment in Miami if you ain't paying [Music] attention Alex and I met in high school 9th grade the very first day we were in I I think it was PE and I don't even remember how we met we just sat together and we started talking it was just an instant connection you know we didn't I I don'

t even remember the conversation but it was just we just click I knew for sure that she was going to be my friend she was just she was gorgeous beautiful she was always there for me when I needed her she was just so loving you know she was somebody who I could always call on when I needed somebody she was dedicated to everything that she did she loved nursing she loved her friends loved her family she was just she was amazing so we've been shooting take a ride for some while now and it was one p

articular day it was a Saturday I decided to go to a pool party June 4th 2016 Alex went to a pool party that she wasn't supposed to go to in the crossfire a young woman is shot and killed while at a house party cbs4's Donna rapado is in Miami Gardens tonight Alex as everyone called her was at a birthday party at home on Northeast 212 Terrace in Miami Garden Saturday night police say at about 9:00 some kind of disturbance erupted outside someone opened fire hitting Alex killing the Nova sou Easte

rn University nursing grad boom boom bo bo boom boom boom you know finally a shot stop everybody's screaming I'm in my car I'm I'm covering myself and I'm just praying like Lord please don't let a bullet hit me June 4th [Music] 2016 that was the day that Alex was taken from us God gave me Alex for 2 23 years and 5 months I had that child when I was 44 years old I was an old lady so it's like a friend a companion Mrs Dean says these were not the sort of parties her go-getter daughter an athlete m

usician and star student ever went to whoever shot her girl she says she forgives them but she hopes the shooter will do the right thing and turn thems [Music] in so just tell me what happened that night um so we were standing right in front of this gate right here and everyone was just having a good time like we were supposed to be having a fun day and there were a lot of people here from like different sides different hoods I was in shock I was devastated when I got the news I was just I broke

down I started screaming I didn't know what to do I didn't know what to say I didn't I couldn't take it in I couldn't believe it I I didn't want to believe it was her you know we having fun recording on Snapchat and a little altercation broke out behind me and I seen everyone behind me running and then after we started running that's when we heard fire um about six shots let out to my knowledge and after we you know heard the gunfire stop we ran back out a friend of me uh me and my friend ran b

ack out to check on my other friends that I came with and I seen one of my friends hiding behind a vehicle that was parked right here in front of this tree and then I seen a girl laying on the floor and at first I didn't know it was her there's days where I do pick up my phone when I really need someone I still pick up my phone and I dial her number sometimes not even thinking that she's not there she's not going to answer but it's been hard I still I still don't want to believe that she's gone

even though I know she is but deep down in my heart I just have not accepted it yeah I remember being here that day and remember everybody around her body and just standing in front of her and then with me standing in front of her like me just seeing her fight for her life we were devastated I was devastated I didn't know what to think I didn't know how to feel I lost my best [Music] friend literally 5 minutes minutes I I won't even say five maybe less than that after that video was recorded tha

t's when the whole thing broke out and um if I had known that that was going to be the last time that we would ever be in a video together I blame myself I feel so guilty because I was the one who invited her you know she was dealing with her finals and she just passed her test to um she passed her board to become a nurse and um I was just like you know we need to let off some steam we just need to have some fun we just need to hang out I haven't really hung out with her cuz she was always in sc

hool and um we just had two different lives at that point so I just wanted to just you know let let loose a little bit just have a little fun that's all I wanted and it just turned into the most tragic day of my life to my knowledge The Killers have not been found unfortunately you know we've grown together since we were 4 years old like so people blamed you and never blamed the shooters I mean of course the shooters are to blame but it's kind of hard to place a blame on a shooter that we don't

know you know what I'm saying like no one ever came forward no one gave any information we don't we don't even have a clue police ruled in a Cold Case cuz we just didn't we we didn't have any idea nobody ever came forward and said you know it was this person or gave a name or even a hood or something like no one no one knows we don't have any idea we just know shots were fired and she got hit from my understanding with a straight bullet I would like to apologize to our young Brothers for leaving

them an inheritance of violence and bloodshed because the things that they see and the things that they affect them it come from the eyes of people that have done things in their presence so I want to apologize to this generation for The Inheritance that our generation left for them and I know that I have to love you more than you hate the life that you live they took my best friend they took Somebody's [Music] Daughter I want to let them know that I do forgive them for what they've done even t

hough it hurt me it hurt me so [Music] bad but I just want to let them know that hate isn't the answer we understand that gun violence is simply a form of communications and what happens is because of the illiteracy level that exists in our communities when an individual has lost the ability to communicate on a spiritual level where he can communicate verbally and he canay bring his point across his level of communication drops lower and lower if a person steps on your shoe and you ask him nicel

y to get off and he doesn't do it the next step is to push him off if he still doesn't do that you might hit him right if that still doesn't get the point across you might pull out a knife if he somehow gets by that then you're going to shoot him so what we have seen is a Devolution of communication Alexandra was only 23 years old just graduated with her Nursing degree shot at a pool [Music] party [Music] in Miami we heard about shootings all the times you know grown man gets shot there no probl

em it's okay we've gotten desensitized with adults being shot and killed grown man getting shot every day was nothing it's changed when kids started getting shot but when a child gets killed it heightens our awareness it heightens our reaction to the situation King Carter he was a great kid full of energy for the life on this kid it was a real [Music] boy call in the pockets I don't do that the hell out of here n King put the green one in this one smart talented King Carter was my son but he was

also my my best friend like I I always wanted somebody like he never betrayed me never lied to me he got toys every day he got every day was his birthday every day of his life was his birthday he like to play football throw it up move bounce round bounce round yeah look at the camera doing it Point both Point both fingers at the camera Point both fingers at the camera now run at the camera full speed and stop right there we start with breaking news out of Northwest Miami date a little boy shot

the victim's family is now heartbroken as police search for the shooter we begin with Derek Shaw who is live at the scene with the latest tonight Derek well the community obviously devastated to learn of this six-year-old's death I'm going to step out of the way and you can see Miami dat police still on the scene here a very active investigation in this apartment complex at 103rd Lane that's Northwest 103d Lane now take a look at who family identifies that victim as 6-year-old King Carter he's a

first grader so far we have not heard about any arrest made in this case and it's unclear what the motive may have been but obviously you can assume little King was not the intended target well that day we got up King was in the living room playing his game one of his friends came over and joined him and played the game with him so one of the friends he say I'm going to go to the candy lady I'm going to go to the candy lady house so he stopped paused the game to go to the candy lady house all t

hem went to the candy lady house but before he left out the door he asked me for a dollar I was at my desk printing up a shirt and I had a couple WS on the table so I just reached the to and gave him $3 and he asked me did I want something I said n just come right back like he always do it was a routine walk for him he did this two three four times a day going he didn't leave a parliament didn't leave the complex just a right around the corner like the same complex just the next building he go o

ut the door I hear multiple shots like less than 60 seconds after after he out the door coming from the direction I know he walking so I run out the door but by the time I run out the door it still shots I still hear shots I don't know where the shots coming from so I just brace myself against the wall looking I'm looking at so when the shots finally finish I see a black Lexus zoom out the gate so I run downstairs at this time asking everybody you seen King you see King people say no so a girl s

tay on the first floor say she was just throwing the football with him and he walked around the back towards the Frozen cup house so I I ran back there so I ran back asking anybody y'all seen King y'all seen King they say no so I run back out and run to the gas station which is right next door to the building I asked the owner I do like you seen my son you seen King he like no so I run back in the building as I run back in the building going I stopped like in the middle of Direction they say he

was in so I'm like nobody ain't see King like he was just out here no so as I'm asking them y'all seeing King as I'm standing I just look to the right and I see my son in a corner alone like in a pool of blood Eyes Wide Open clutching the the the $3 that I just gave him like alone and it drove me crazy like I just fell to my knees and began praying instantly like Lord please don't do this to me let get my son and strength for him to pull through cuz you don't pull through I don't know what the n

ext hour leave me you heard me I don't know what's going to be what like don't do me like this I know you got strong Warriors in the Bible I know you got a lot of trust and faith in me and I'm one of your warriors but I can't take that guy like don't do me like this and our team coverage now moves to Amy ver she's live at Jackson Memorial Hospital where the child's family has gathered Amy but we got here just as Air transport was leaving the hospital here behind me and I also got here as family

members started to arrive in large numbers rushing into the hospital you can see so many of them gathered out here all the nurses say hey let us talk to you back here I ain't want to go talk to him my first question like what I'm talking to y'all for y'all supposed to be back there operating what what why why why why y'all here like I already had like why y'all want to talk to me like so when they say listen we tried the best we can I walked out I didn't even hear the last word in a half hour th

e family received the worst possible news breaking down here in front of Ryder trauma center after learning the six-year-old did not survive his injuries the family was able to to tell us that King was just walking to the store to buy candy near the home when all of this happened and everyone here still in disbelief that this has happened once again to a small child and it's just a travesty that our kids our young ones our young children are not able to even be out in the street no more without

the recklessness and I take it personal cuz my grandson played Optimus football with him so you know it kind of struck home you know that could have been my grandson snatch my soul like it's like ain't no words that could really Define it no words I like everything left out of me I don't know how I still conscious like I don't know it's just like I was floating off I don't know I don't know just to see him in the corner pull the blood Eyes Wide Open clutching on the $3 like and that's an image t

hat won't leave my mind no matter what I'm doing I got to run with that image to to gone like to I'm out of here there nothing I could do to fade that picture out of my head nothing not enough prayer not enough nothing SC man with King Carter and um and his passing um later on it was his father who spoke at a candlelight Vigilant that was the Catalyst that led to the the birth of the idea for the Hunger nine a very unique aspect of it was the King Carter situation brought the topic of gun violen

ce down on a very very very basic level when we start talking talking about young children getting killed so with the killing of a king it created a situation that something had to be done and it you know like I said it's okay when it's adults that's getting killed sometimes we justify the fact that individuals uh deserve what happened to them but a young child no what's wrong with this world our kids supposed to be the most important thing our kids yes but we don't act like nine members of the

circle of Brotherhood a Miami based nonprofit organization have been on a hunger strike for the past 6 days protesting gun violence this is about them working with us to activate this community to make sure that we don't lose additional people this is a crisis a trickle of Terror it has been a week since King was killed since then Miami dat police have worked tirelessly to make arrest put guns down man if y'all ain't got no Daddy I'm only 29 but I could raise a 21y old all band has been broken a

s people and if we don't B back together all your kids is a victim of a circumstance and the little boy who was killed in a gunfight between teens last weekend was laid to rest today the family of six-year-old King Carter said their final goodbyes this afternoon it was a long and emotional service honoring King a tiny white casket rested in front of hundreds of MERS saying goodbye to six-year-old King harder adults dressed as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles King's favorite cartoon characters were p

art of the procession led by his parents and a crown rested on a pillow to be placed on King's Head before the casket was closed yeah we now know a pair of search warrants was carried out tied to the murder of this six-year-old boy little King Carter and one of those warrants was here at this two-story apartment building here in opaka right off of Northwest 22nd Avenue we're told that Miami dat police moved in very early this morning at about 300 a.m. and moved into a second story uh unit here I

asked him like what's up what happened y'all seen him like I really had to get closure like they Ain just wasn't just mad at the person they was shooting and aimed the gun at my son and shoot him I had to really find out it was an accident cuz we won't be talking that I'm just being honest with you if had they aimed that gun at my son and shot my son that'll been game over for me period in a row a community rally at the shooting scene folks determined to get Justice CBS 4 cameras were there whe

n a community activist tells the crowd someone had turned themselves in we abundantly bless we ain't blessed we what abundantly blessed we what abundantly blessed that's why one of them boys turn they s in today f is talking to him I'll talk to him they can put me in the room with all them right now and I won't even touch him I promise to God I I just talked to him like like talk to him like what what's up y'all got to deal with y'all punishment like I won't touch him but I definitely talk to hi

m three teens are now in custody related to his death 16-year-old Tamar teams turned himself in early Friday morning investigators say teams admitted he was in the car with 18-year-old Leonard Adams and 17-year-old irn Presley police say the two went to the apartment complex to kill someone named Ju you after an argument on social media a Facebook beef a simple Facebook beef teenagers 15 16 17 beefing over a girl on the social site I don't know the girl my son don't know the girl the intended vi

ctim police say identified only as ju guu testified today we were not allowed to show his face as 18-year-old Leonard Adams one of three accused Shooters looked to get bailed what was your reaction to the fact that he was firing the gun at you jumped up and started shooting back did you fire every bullet that you had in your gun the little boy's parents watched incredulous that Adams a repeat drug and guns offender would ask for bail Facebook live and the dudes who he was going at with the girl

seen him on live and decided on the Saturday afternoon 2:00 in the afternoon it was perfect time to go create a gun war and shoot and kill him but pulling in the pocket line instead of shooting him my son was caught in a crossfire and killed the only person shot it'll never be closure they could get these they get him a dep pen give him 100 years still remain my son won't get to live his life ain't no closure period I had to pray like ain't no happiness like on the real like I be ain't no happin

ess is in my life no more I done when it got married and I'm going be honest it ain't no my wife got another son like it ain't know my wife got another son you might like my son too but my biologic I only have one son I don't hear Daddy no more period it's gone like I ain't even a daddy no more even I I am I'm a father to the streets the kids who what M like on here now that now that he going don't do nothing I can't just lay down can't just lay down my son don't know me to be a court me to lay

down or me to be crying but in times I do lay down I do cry I want to know what happened like what happened to y'all life what led y'all to what happened like wasn't that serious do you regret it like I got some questions for like cuz there some other kids seven and eight and N in their shoes right now who who potentially gonna be at that point 15 16 17 another kid sensitively Gunn down in the street due to some foolishness so whatever y'all going through we got to take that and go into the stre

ets and look for other kids who going through that to stop it [ __ ] when it come when it come to gun VI that [ __ ] going to always be the same that [ __ ] going to get worse though man you feel me keep it g with you ain't going to get no better it ain't give it don't matter bro listen bro all that matter but listen though keep it g bro it it it it don't matter how much marching we do how many hashtags we make how many videos we make bro these young [ __ ] still going to do the same [ __ ] beca

use they big homies in their Hood ain't teaching them nothing they ain't keeping it real with they self [ __ ] trying to keep it real with other [ __ ] [ __ ] trying to keep it real with the gang [ __ ] you got to keep it real with yourself you feel me and that's how it got to go you feel me like watch when young [ __ ] them just chill they they they they molded right they vibing they ain't on no dumb [ __ ] cuz they keeping it real with they s and we ain't on that dumb [ __ ] that's that's ever

ywhere else you don't get that [ __ ] in overlocker man we get we we on some other [ __ ] so that's what it is it ain't going to change it's going to get worse it's going to always get worse and going to never get ain't going to never get better that like saying Chicago gun violence is going to slow down that [ __ ] ain't going to slow down man from a person that grew up uh without his father I didn't have my father my father left when I was five so I didn't know what being a man was about so I

kind of learned from the streets and I went to prison I've been to prison 4 four times been to jail 38 times and I made so many excuses because my dad wasn't there and I know I was searching for something and then I end up coming to the circle of Brotherhood being invited by one of the brothers Anthony Duron when he brought me in you know I realized that there are black men that really care about you that really want to see a change that really want to make some differences out here and want to

change other people in the community and that's what made me change and made me want to do something different in the community to put back into the community now I'm a productive citizen in the community and I'm giving back to the community from a community that I took from for so many years from stealing cars from robbing people from selling drugs you know and now I'm a productive citizen I have my own business matter of fact I have two businesses now and and be a productive and give back so n

ow I'm able to give jobs back to Those whom I used to take from and also share with them my experience I've been there and I've done that I got the T-shirt to wear it and then many of us that are in the Brotherhood that has been to prison and some of us haven't like we said from the suits to the streets and from the streets to the suits right we all been to those problems we all had those situations 10 years from now I'll be 59 I remember back in the days when we used to wear bottoms be bottoms

and afro now that's coming back you remember those days when it was real peaceful we used to throw the peace sign and things of that nature so in 10 years I'm very optimistic coming back what we used to do when we used to go hand in hand you mean people in the community saying stuff like Brotherhood Brotherhood who do we serve our community I'm optimistic that it to go back to the ways where it was peace where it was love where it was where it was Community involved where we didn't have to have

guns to solve no problem one brother one Hood it's pretty much all a plot I think cuz you go to prison you get rehabilitated but then you you get out and you ain't got no rights you can't vote you can't you can't own a a strap like it's messed up so they put you in a messed up situation at a young age you ain't got no Mentor no father somebody who got you on the right track like play football or go to school or doing this if you don't got that person behind you dog and you out here in the street

s you going to be not killed the [ __ ] got killed shot out a [ __ ] or did some ID or there's no there's no way around it the parents got a lot to do with it cuz when your parents ain't in your life that's what happened to me when your parents ain't in your life you're gonna find Brotherhood on the streets you in the streets that's just what's going to happen you feel me so it's a lot of fathers not in they Jets life and [ __ ] and then so far as dudes they out here you feel me the females out

here doing whatever and that's what it is I see Miami getting worse in the next 5 years because it it had calmed down a little bit but I guess it's cuz people go to prison and they start locking everybody up but these kids you know they keep growing growing growing growing and they trying to mimic all the gangsters that they saw in the past and I I see it growing I see it getting back real bad again the parents are actually playing a role of friends of the kids with the guns they probably helpin

g them get it but it's because it's not because they helping them wild out is because they want they child to make it home safe at night you got to respect that if if if your mom knew that this city was dangerous and she know you was going in the city every night she going to make sure you got that fight so you can make it home she want to make sure you make it home she can't stop you from going out there she she go out you going to go in the city cuz that's where you want to be at she just want

to make sure you all right so for the parents that is it's hard bro it's hard understand that it's hard for me my only boy I wasn't going to allow it I was going to be that parent I was that parent not going to be that parent that no you're not going to do this if I had to f every gang member in that game then that's what it was going to be did you yes I was yes I'm confrontational I I I'm going to confront you they call me a firecracker they say um they even make a joke my mom bipolar I'm like

no I'm not bipolar it's just that I'm willing to go to back for my kids and do whatever I have to do to keep y'all on path and to keep yall to stay focused and this is what I have to do then so be it just the situation that I was in so many people don't make it out that situation but when I was 12 years old if you would have told me I'll be what I am today I probably would have laughed in your face I didn't see this future coming or where I'm at right now coming when I was 12 I didn't see me ma

king it to this [Music] age man the probability of me making it to where I am today very slim very slim so opaka is where I'm from I should hate opaka you know my father was killed in opaka opaka has not been so great to me but for some reason it was just like a hold on me it's like I know I had family back there but I didn't have to come so frequently or when I did come just trying to be in and out that you know don't become uh victim of my environment or a product of my environment so I played

football in high school I had several options when I broke down my options it was either stay here and go to Florida International University I felt if I would have stayed in Miami I wouldn't be here today in front of you in front of this camera I'm here with Anton Samuels of the mon high school now I hear that you're the number one running back in Dade County leading in rushing yeah for private school [Applause] yes if I continue to go back there that I could potentially put myself in the situ

ation that would just mess up the whole future I had going joh Samuel 29y as a child our world's ahead graduate Anon Samuel suffered a terrible tragedy but he's channeled his grief into a desire to make a difference he's receiving a bachelor's in Health Services Administration and ton would you please stand and be recognized and we also we also want to recognize his loved ones his mom his grandmother his son his aunts his uncle and girlfriend who are here cheering him on family members supporter

s would you please stand and be recognized thank you thank you family members Just 4 days before his 8th birthday while looking out the window of his home Anton saw his beloved father shot and killed this tragedy is what compels Anton to this very day to reach out to others in the community so they can avoid the same fate he speaks regularly to elementary students about Rising above adversity through education he's one of seven children raised by his mother and grandmother he decided he would ma

ke his family proud through his love for education and football and a stellar and a stellar student athlete having earned an athletic scholarship and maintained a high GPA he achieved all this to despite a demanding schedule and almost seeing his Collegiate football career cut short due to concussions he's a two-time Conference USA Commissioners honor role honor that's recognition for having a GPA of 3.0 or better congratulations Anton and as a young father himself Anton says he draws his inspir

ation from his foury yearold son his grace and his wisdom from his mother and his grandmother and the strength from the lasting memories of his father and ton thank you for choosing to excel off the field just have you as excelled on the field you are an inspiration keep on keeping on congratulations I felt like the happiest man alive man you know a part of me and my brother that ain't Shady went the School graduated high school went to college got a college degree never been to jail ain't got a

spe his record is impeccable the boy is pious you know what I'm saying and to see him achieve s sa such satisfaction in life I mean achievement man that's the ultimate goal for for a parent let alone a uncle a relative for a loved one you know so I can never stop enjoying his success for him I want you to know that the only thing that's stopping you is you you the only person that's in your way because you can make it I had every excuse to not be where I'm at today I could have said my father w

as killed that took an impact on me I'm going to turn to the streets I could have said I'm standing in a low poverty area this is my environment I'm not going to do anything I could have said so many things I could have said that you know my friend's taking this route I'm going to do the same thing but instead I got out of my way and I didn't let doubt creep into my mind I know I was better than my circumstances I was better than my situation and to the youth out there I want you to know that yo

u're better than your circumstances you're better than your situation you just have to believe in yourself get get out your way and do whatever you got to do to get to that path that you want to get to breaking news in Northwest Miami dayen right now police are on the scene where two people are shot this is the same area where a six-year-old ended up getting killed in the crossfire of a shootout let's get right out to cbs4's oralia Ortega oralia Rick rud according to my police there were a numbe

r of people standing outside of this apartment complex when bullets began flying but they say it looks like the two people who were struck are going to make it the shooting happening at the Blue Lake Village Apartment Complex of Northwest 12th Avenue and 103rd Lane the same apartment complex where six-year-old King Carter was shot and killed in February Carter's father ducking for cover he said after he heard about 20 shots it was a lot of kids out here like the same my my son died on a Saturday

at 2:30 you telling me a kid can't play on a Saturday at 2:30 Miami date police investigators say the whole thing began with a woman acting erratically soon after a man whose relationship to the woman is unknown arrived and began shooting investigators are now looking for that woman and the man who they say fled on foot leaving people in this neighborhood shaken once again little King Carter has been hit with yet another tragedy another member of the family was shot and killed police say in the

city of Miami local 10 news reporter Amy V joins us live with details on this well Janine family members tell us somebody shot and killed 24-year-old Ralph Carr here as he was leaving this apartment complex on Friday of course this is not the first loss this family has gone through and they say they are so frustrated with the struggle for information about who's responsible I'm like no this cannot be happening again to our family cuz this is the fifth family member the fourth nephew that I lost

and one cousin to Akin says the phone call early last Friday morning that someone shot and killed her nephew Ralph Carr felt like a recurring nightmare it was just February of last year when she rushed to ride her Trauma Center because another nephew King Carter just 6 years old had been shot I saw the helicopter airlifted him to the hospital and I ran every light to get there but when we got there a few minutes later they came out and say he was gone and as he was getting into his vehicle he w

as shot up by two black males she says Carr was leaving an apartment complex on Northwest 70th Street near 8th Avenue