sad shit.
A 29-year-old rising Roxbury rap artist was killed, and another man wounded early yesterday in a Theater District shooting that sent shock waves through the Boston hip-hop community.
Jamie Lee, a.k.a. Roc Dukati, and a 24-year-old man whose name was not released were gunned down after a fight broke at about 2 a.m. yesterday on Tremont Street among several men who had been attending a record release party, family members and authorities said.
“We lost a family member,” said JAM’N 94.5 FM DJ Hustle Simmons. “Whether you’re tight with him or not, if you’re involved in the Boston hip-hop scene, we all lost a family member. He’s part of the team.”
Police would not comment on the circumstances that led to carnage, including whether the victims were the intended targets. Both men already had gone to Boston Medical Center by the time officers arrived, police said.
A preliminary investigation revealed that a fight between several men had broken out outside 285 Tremont St., resulting in shots fired there and inside a parking garage across the street, police said.
Officers cordoned off the garage, arresting two men in separate cars on gun charges, prosecutors said.
Andrew Flonory, 26, of Brockton and Joshua Hollis, 22, were each charged with carrying a firearm without a license, prosecutors said.
Hollis was held on $10,000 cash bail, and Flonory, an alleged repeat offender, was ordered held on $25,000 cash bail while tests were conducted on their clothes and skin for gunshot residue, authorities said.
Hollis’ attorney, James Greenberg, said his client was “actually heartbroken” because he was friends with Lee.
“He implores the commonwealth to test his firearm,” Greenberg said. “He is not involved in this.”
Flonory’s lawyer, James Doyle, said his client has no history of armed violence and is the brother of Eyanna Flonory, 21, who was murdered with her 2-year-old son and two men last fall in Mattapan.
As police continued their investigation into yesterday’s shootings, Lee’s family and friends grieved his loss.
“He was a conscious rapper, that’s what people don’t know,” said Cambridge rapper Myles Lockwood, a.k.a. Millyz. “He talked about what he had lived through, and if he wasn’t talking about experiences he lived through, he was talking about problems that go on in the world. . . . Not too many people stand up for what they believe in like he would. He really stood firm on his beliefs and never compromised.”
Lee had a CD coming out called “Endangered Species” and was part of the Life4Life Records collective that boasted Masspike Miles, Staxx Hustlez and his brothers, Allen Keon “Smoke Bulga” Lee and Brandon “LeeBoy” Lee.
He recently shot a video with rapper Vado and Grammy-nominated Harlem MC Cam’ron for the track “How Ya Living,” which is scheduled to air on MTV Jams in two weeks.
“It does nothing but make me stronger,” said the victim’s older brother, Allen Keon Lee, whose last memory of his brother is of a champagne toast.
“He told me ‘We’re gonna make this happen, bro,’ ” he said. “I’m gonna work till I’m dead because his name cannot go in vain.”
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