That same day, a rapper named Lil Jay with the Fly Boy Gang taunted Blood Money's friends by posting a video of himself drinking a red-hued beverage from a Styrofoam cup, singing: 'Sippin' on Blood Money.' On April 10, the day before her death, she Tweeted: 'I Dne seen 2 many of my ni-az n a casket…In da end we DIE.'
The police did not name her as a suspect, but she posted on Twitter the next day: 'u Nobody until Somebody kill u dats jst real Shyt.'Īround the same time, police shot and killed Raason 'Lil B' Shaw, a Tooka, after he allegedly pulled out a gun during a foot chase, according to The Daily Beast.īarnes named her Twitter page 'NO SURRENDER LIL B.' Online postings would soon name Barnes, again, as the 'hitta'. On April 9, the 30-year-old cousin of Chief Keef, Mario 'Blood Money' Hess, was shot and killed. Keith 'Chief Keef' Cozart, a member of rival gang Black Disciple - the O Block gang - had already been signed by Interscope, moving from the South Side to a mansion in the suburbs and recording songs that derided the Tooka clan. The Fly Boy's were sending out a clear message with the video, attempting to get the attention of music producers and record labels who had recently taken a huge financial interest in gritty street rap performed by people who were actually 'living' their songs, and not writing about 'thug life' from a condo in Los Angeles. The 'Murda' video was an attempt for members of the gang to be noticed by record labels and hopefully be signed as artists, as some of their rivals had already done The opposing gang memorialized Odee by christening its home turf as 'O Block'.Ī major turning point for Barnes was the killing of 13-year-old Tyquan Tyler, whose mother had moved him from Chicago to western Illinois to get him away from the city's violence. While Barnes was never named a police suspect, one street figure Tweeted: 'lol so odee was killed by a girl smh '.
Lawrence Boys or the Fly Boy Gang.įollowing the death of 15-year-old Shondale 'Tooka' Gregory, who was shot to death as he waited for a bus in January 2011, the Fly Boys became the 'Tooka gang' and the surrounding area 'Tookaville'.īarnes changed her Facebook name to 'Tookaville' kirah'.Įight months later, a 20-year-old opposing gang member named Odee Perry was shot and killed.īarnes was almost immediately linked to the death, with online postings labeling her the 'hitta'. 'She just wanted to protect everybody,' her mother, Shontell Brown, explained in a lengthy feature on Gakirah Barnes in The Daily Beast.Īs Barnes entered her teens, she fell in with a group of young men in her South Side neighborhood of Woodlawn who called themselves the St.
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Some 45 other people were shot on the same weekend in the city that has come to be called 'Chiraq' - a brutal nickname used to describe today's Chicago in terms of its danger and crime - six of which were children.īut Barnes has since become something of a mythical figure online, immortalized in YouTube memorials and rap videos as 'Lil Snoop', a reference to the fictional 'Snoop' character from TV series The Wire - a cold-blooded killer from the harsh streets of Baltimore.īarnes' father was shot to death on Easter Sunday in 1997, when she was less than 12-months old. Mourning: Gakirah Barnes' mother Shontell Brown said her 'sweet and loving' daughter is not the person she has been shown to be