blog post by John Hoff
Many red hot and exclusive details will follow in my NEXT blog post about how last night's candlelight vigil for a North Minneapolis shooting victim (click here for Star Tribune article) quickly turned into a mob action with a shot fired, and citizens nearby hitting their lovely wood floor with not enough police able to respond to their frantic 911 calls, but first things first:
The murder victim's identity was learned first and exclusively by JNS blog by simply looking on Facebook (click here for his Facebook profile) while our mass media provide fearful Northside citizens no further details. These mass media are apparently on a tight and voluntary official leash awaiting a "press release" or some such thing. Stepping into the void, JNS blog can tell you the victim is a man who goes by Drew TheChef Billingsley.
Since he is...
...only identifiable by Facebook at the moment, and I can't confirm whether his legal name is really "Drew Billingsley," I'll hold off on further background details and just go with what is known on Facebook.
He studied at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. His "wallpaper" on Facebook features the face of another murder victim. I recognize the face but can't place the name this moment, even though I'm sure I wrote about the guy.
There are so many murders happening now on the Northside and I am so far behind reporting on those murders that I have lost my ability to keep all the murders straight, so rather than pausing to refresh recollection for now I'll just say Drew Billingsley has a picture of THIS guy on his Facebook wallpaper:
Billingsly describes himself as the "CEO" of something called "L.O.L Entertainment," which is also on Facebook and described as a "concert venue."
The page recently advertised a June 10 concert by Too Short Twista (or is that Too Short AND Twista?) at the Epic Nightclub, 110 North Fifth Street. Epic nightclub was the scene of the murder of gang member Tyrone "Ty Crack" Washington, whose homicide has set off an endless cycle of violence and been the subject of a great deal of musical commentary, first reported exclusively on this blog but now picked up by many other prominent media entities.
That's enough on Billingsley's life on Facebook for the moment. I urge readers to go to his Facebook page and make your own investigation and discoveries, if interested.
In the meantime, I have another blog post to write about last night's mob action at the shooting vigil.
Jada
ReplyDeleteI received the following email:
ReplyDelete--------------
Drew is his real name, he was a well known chef....the pic of the other guy is Jonathan Harris who was shot to death earlier this year on Hillside by Dashaunta Gomez after harris got into it with his stepfather Demiteras Cooper-who was once their friend...(which happened to be drews place of residence)....which is why the incident was on 26 & penn if u check VERY CLOSE TO DREWS HOME.... ppl call it snitching but some of these idiots need to wake up and see the damage theyre doing WE HAVE MORE BLACK PPL ON JAIL THAN IN SCHOOL IN MINNEAPOLIS
True True
DeleteWe do have more black people in jail than in school & YES it is time to wake up people. Remember "You sow what you reep" (for you youngsters, "What comes around, goes around". whatever cliche you choose to use, in the end we all must our maker. Also you must face yourself each day in the mirror.
And last but not least a lil something for you lil g's to think about
EVEN A DOG KNOWS NOT TO SHIT WHERE IT LIES.
That's what runs through my mind every time I'm walking around the northside.
Just a lil food for thought...
Not a original northsider
******SOUTHSIDE******
Correction to the email the night Jada Harris was murdered, he was not the one that "got into it" with Demiteras. Jada who was unarmed and was shot by Dashaunta because Jada was acting like a bouncer who seen a boy walk into his families house with something under his shirt and as Jada was about to pat the boy down, Dashaunta shot him. As for Drew, this man loved his children and was a great friend. He was also unarmed when he was shot for protecting one of his sons. It had nothing to do with so called snitching. These men put family first. I have been honored and blessed to have known both Jada and Drew many years. Both may have made some bad choices in their life, but who hasn't and at least they where continuing to improve themselves for their families.
DeleteMy earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the shooting victim as "Billingsly" when it is, in fact, "Billingsley," with an "e."
ReplyDeleteThe error has been corrected.
Drew was a good man.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the article about Matthew Little u racist pig?
ReplyDeleteIn regard to Matthew Little...
ReplyDeleteRemind me again who that is? Was he murdered or a shooter or what? I know that I need to write an article on a guy named PAUL MERCER but I'm trying to remember who is Matthew Little?
Matthew little was one of the men stabbed on Fremont I believe.a 17 year old is being held in the juvenile center for the stabbing murder of Matthew little and another man was also stabbed at the time but did not die.
DeleteJohnny....
ReplyDeleteLook it up. You can find any information you want about a black man!
You have a plethora of detailed information on your blog depicting young black individuals and crimes; which happened in North Mpls. where did you get that information from? Well Matthews' information is stored in the same place.
We want all races to be acknowledged on here.
And where is your wanna be side kick. I guess if you don't speak she as your puppet don't speak.
WHO is Matthew Little that I would write about him? Is he in jail or something? YOu want to post his arrest record, geez, go to MNCIS and copy and paste right here on an appropriate thread. See if I won't publish it. But if it's just one suspect in a stabbing of a non-fatal nature well you know what?
ReplyDeleteI got murders to chase.
Matthew was murdered in north Minneapolis u freaking idiot. You know that you racist pig!
ReplyDeleteMatthew Died. You know that your in the know of everything that happens on the North side.
ReplyDeleteJohn,
ReplyDeleteTry to focus. They are telling you about a MURDER victim, Matthew Little who was stabbed to death on 3600 Emerson. I gather from the comments that the killer is white. He is a minor so if someone has his name, that would be helpful.
Jordan North,
ReplyDeleteIf Matthew Little is a MINOR then how will I manage to dig up his record anyway? As for the murderer, clearly if I don't know his NAME I won't be able to dig up his RECORD, now will I?
Lol they have a point Johnny. We have seen posts/links etc dedicated to particular issues that your still enquiring information on. Why aren't you doing the same for him?
ReplyDelete