Buzzing Florida rapper YNW Melly is facing a double murder case after killing two of his best friends in October. He went on to act devastated about the incident in order to avoid being a suspect in the killings.
New information regarding how Melly tried to fool cops about who killed is friends are surfacing, per TMZ. Melly got his friend Cortlen Henry to go to an emergency room on the night of October 26 asked for help for two friends that were hit in a drive-by shooting. They dead men were Anthony Williams and Christopher Thomas Jr. They were shot in the head, torso and back. Blood was also all around the car.
Cortlen said to cops that he and friends left the studio and got targeted in a drive-by with eight shots hitting the side of the car. A police investigation determined that he was lying and was covering up for Melly in a different shooting which involved Williams and Thomas. In the other location, eight shell casings were discovered. Police say Melly and Henry shot at a car to make it look like a drive-by.
Melly and Corlen went on to drive around with Williams’ and Thomas’ dead bodies before going to the hospital. Both Melly and Henry have been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Melly has been known in his music career for his hit singles “Blue Balenciagas” and “Murder On My Mind.” Crazy enough, Murder On My Mind has been climbing to the top of the charts on iTunes.
YNW Melly looked like he was about to be one of the biggest breakout artists of 2019. Now, his involvement in these murders are throwing that away. He was also locked up in January on misdemeanor drug possession and that was the start of everything going downhill fast.
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