Rapper Shot And Killed After Hosting Anti-Gun Rally

[Initech]

Source: MSN via Washington Post

He was a rapper trying to stop violence in Baltimore. Tyriece Travon Watson, better known as Lor Scoota, had just finished hosting a charity basketball game. The fliers advertising the event had said, “Pray for peace in these streets.” Music artists and important faces from around the city had come together to prove they could get along.

Lor Scoota got in his car and left the arena. Bringing peace to Baltimore was a message he had been trying to spread — on panels, in classrooms and in his music.

“How I’m supposed to live with all this death in my sight?” the 23-year-old had once sang.

Lor Scoota was about a mile away from the arena when he was shot and killed.

Baltimore police said the rapper was driving east at 6:56 p.m. Saturday when an unknown black male wearing a white bandanna stepped into the street and opened fire into Lor Scoota’s car. He was transported to an area hospital, but was pronounced dead shortly after. Homicide detectives are investigating the shooting as a targeted attack.

“We have to be tired of this. Can #Scoota be a wake up call for us?” tweeted police spokesman T.J. Smith. “He entertained many, now gone, just like that. We are better than this.”

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/this-rapper-rallied-to-stop-violence-on-baltimore-streets-an-hour-later-he-was-shot-and-killed/ar-AAhEakm

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RIP.

Fuck guns.

[ailsagirl]

1. Sometimes I feel this country is coming apart at the seams n/t

[passiveporcupine]

10. Not just sometimes.

I'm giving up all hope.



#scoota

[IrishEyes]

2. So sad. He was much too young.

I'm really sick of this.

[onehandle]

3. Cue a pathetic extreme conservative GOP gun nut to show up and say this is an 'urban' problem.

RIP.

[sheshe2]

4. One more time,

RIP



Yet, sadly. Tick Tock, the next will happen in an hour or so.

[Initech]

6. Sounds about right.

Fuck guns, fuck gun enthusiasts, fuck the gun industry, fuck the NRA.

[IrishEyes]

16. That is what those idiots usually say.

If it involves a black man, they say it is an urban problem.
If it involves a white man, they say it is mental illness.
If it involves a man that might look middle eastern, they say it is terrorism.

There is also the excuses like too much violence of TV or video games causing gun violence. Of course, they are always happy to offer their thoughts, prayers and inaction. Fuck the NRA.

[BlueNoMatterWho]

5. Sad

[IronLionZion]

7. Sounds like a targeted hit

no mention of a motive.

RIP

[Initech]

12. Don't read the comments section - it will make your blood boil.

There are some racist assholes saying some really bad shit, and of course the NRA apologists.

[Skittles]

18. usually, they are one and the same

[OnyxCollie]

8. Tool and Die.

&spfreload=10

[Stryder]

9. In danger are the peace makers,

For they are bad for the bottom line.
Weather it be the NRA or ...

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Fuck guns and those who value them over human lives.

RIP.

[sarae]

15. +1000

[Initech]

22. +1000000

[lunamagica]

14. This is so tragic.. so young, and we need more like him, no less.

[PatrickforO]

17. Testing signature and seconding the sentiments of the OP

[heaven05]

19. it is situations like this

that leave me shaking my head. We need to stop killing each other. The ignorance and just plain self-hate, along with MANY other dynamics, is appaling in how it stays a driving force for black on black crime. We must stop.

[smirkymonkey]

20. Too tragic.

[Jitter65]

21. Truly, truly sad. "No good deed... "nt