Jump to content

Mercer

Recommended Posts

This forum is supported by the 12ozProphet Shop, so go buy a shirt and help support!
This forum is brought to you by the 12ozProphet Shop.
This forum is brought to you by the 12oz Shop.

Shit, didn’t know he was dead!  Although, I’d like to see the details before I believe a meme that two bullets were ruled suicide. 
 

there’s a pretty good movie about him, staring the guy who shoots arrows in the avenger movies. Not sure how true to fact it is. 
 

CIA only has itself to blame when people expect the worst of them. The Cold War was a dirty, dirty time when ideology and paranoia was allowed to roam free. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Quote

Webb was found dead in his Carmichael home on December 10, 2004, with two gunshot wounds to the head. His death was ruled a suicide by the Sacramento County coroner's office.[67] After a local paper reported that he had died from multiple gunshots, the coroner's office received so many calls asking about Webb's death that Sacramento County Coroner Robert Lyons issued a statement confirming Webb had committed suicide.[68]When asked by local reporters about the possibility of two gunshots being a suicide, Lyons replied: "It's unusual in a suicide case to have two shots, but it has been done in the past, and it is in fact a distinct possibility." News coverage noted that there were widespread rumors on the Internet at the time that Webb had been killed as retribution for his "Dark Alliance" series, published eight years before. Webb's ex-wife Susan Bell told reporters that she believed Webb had committed suicide.[68] "The way he was acting it would be hard for me to believe it was anything but suicide," she said. According to Bell, Webb had been unhappy for some time over his inability to get a job at another major newspaper. He had sold his house the week before his death because he was unable to afford the mortgage.[68]

 

After Webb's death, a collection of his stories from before and after the "Dark Alliance" series was published. The collection, The Killing Game: Selected Stories from the Author of Dark Alliance, was edited by Webb's son, Eric.

Gary Webb’s story on that meme is 100% true and I consider him a hero. Do the research, this is a fascinating subject to say the least.  Although without the crack epidemic we may not have had gangsta rap so it all works itself out in the end. 

 

My favorite story from the crack era was freeway Ricky Ross who was illiterate and making millions a day, when he got locked up he taught himself to read, then taught himself law, and secured his own eventual release finding technicalities in his own case. If Rick Ross The rapper is ever found dead from an apparent 2 shot suicide It’s probably just freeway doing his thing.

  • Props 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...