{"id":793030,"date":"2019-02-13T19:47:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T02:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=794588"},"modified":"2019-02-13T19:47:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T02:47:21","slug":"ynw-melly-charged-with-two-counts-of-first-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ynw-melly-charged-with-two-counts-of-first-degree-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"YNW Melly Charged With Two Counts of First-Degree Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rising rapper\u00a0YNW Melly<\/a>\u00a0was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder on Wednesday. The charges stem from the October 26th, 2018 shooting of Anthony Williams and Christopher Thomas Jr., according to a report<\/a> from the South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/em>. Cortlen Henry was also arrested in connection with the double slayings.<\/p>\n

According to a statement from the Miramar police, the rapper, whose real name is Jamell Demons, and Henry conspired to make it seem like Williams and Thomas Jr. were killed during a drive-by shooting. Williams and Thomas were transported in a Jeep Compass to Memorial Hospital Miramar emergency room, where they died.<\/p>\n

The police believe Henry was the driver of the Jeep, while Demons shot the two men. In October, Demons\u2019 lawyer, Bradford Cohen, said, \u201cHe\u2019s sad, he\u2019s upset, obviously. Those were his best friends,\u201d regarding the death of Williams and Thomas, via the\u00a0South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/em><\/a>. Police have yet to release a motive for the killings.<\/p>\n

Melly came to prominence off the success of singles like \u201cMurder On My Mind\u201d and \u201cSlang That Iron.\u201d His growing numbers on YouTube and SoundCloud notched him co-signs from Future and Young Thug.<\/p>\n

In an April Billboard<\/em> interview<\/a>, he described what it was like growing up in Gifford, Florida. \u201cGrowing up in any other little hoe ass place. You know, ain\u2019t nobody want to do nothin\u2019. Everybody stuck in the mud. That\u2019s how they family tree is. They don\u2019t even wanna do shit with they life, but get a job and live in a little house. They\u2019ll try to move to Vero, like the good side. Try to move there and then what? Go to college, play football and other shit. Shit don\u2019t never work out. They end up coming right back.\u201d<\/p>\n

YNW Melly<\/a> released his latest project, We All Shine<\/em>, in January. \u201cMixed Personalities,\u201d his collaboration with Kanye West<\/a>, was his highest-profile song to date. Representatives for YNW Melly did not immediately reply to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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(1\/2) Jamell Demons, a.k.a. YNW Melly & Cortlen Henry have been arrested and charged with two counts of first degree murder. The victims, Anthony Williams & Christopher Thomas Jr., were killed on 10\/26\/2018. The investigation, supported by forensic evidence, has concluded that pic.twitter.com\/ArzVCLRxjd<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Miramar Police (@MiramarPD) February 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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(2\/2) Demons shot and killed Williams & Thomas Jr. and that Demons and Henry staged the crime scene to resemble a drive-by shooting. pic.twitter.com\/EukFxD4OEq<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Miramar Police (@MiramarPD) February 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rising rapper\u00a0YNW Melly\u00a0was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder on Wednesday. The charges stem from the October 26th, 2018 shooting of Anthony Williams and Christopher Thomas Jr., according to a report from the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Cortlen Henry was also arrested in connection with the double slayings. According to a statement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 01:07:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}