Twitter beefs are stupid.
I say this as someone in my earlier twitter days who would openly confront people to say what they were saying online to my face (no one ever did).
But in the end what someone tweets has no effect on how you are living your real life, it should never come to this.
One teenager tweeted that another couldn’t rap.
Friends and associates of each teen then jumped into the social media squabble, court documents compiled by detectives say.
“If anyone got a problem with us we can solve that right now. Hit my line,” Devin Leggett, 19, tweeted.
A flurry of texts and tweets later, a face-to-face meeting was set, court documents say. Two groups squared off at the Woods of Eagle Creek apartments on Feb. 3 on the northwest side, where Jerrold Parker, 18, was at a friend’s apartment.
A fight broke out. Gunshots rang, and Parker fell, shot and seriously injured.
Parker later died at the hospital.
Police on Friday arrested Leggett after witnesses told investigators he fired the shots that killed Parker. Leggett faces charges of murder and carrying a handgun without a license.
One kid is dead and the other one will likely spend the majority if not all his life in prison over some tweets.
It isn’t that serious.