FBG Duck
Coverage of former Chicago rapper FBG Duck, his murder and the city’s gang culture.
Dateisha House testified during the murder trial Wednesday that her child’s father, Ralph Turpin, sent the message shortly after FBG Duck was gunned down in the Gold Coast in August 2020.
The gangbanger-turned-informant told his handler last month that he believed O Block was responsible for his brother’s death. On the stand this week, he admitted that he lied.
Martell Wiley, who runs the popular Trenches News YouTube channel, was paid nearly $25,000 to cooperate with the government, an FBI agent testified Monday.
Attorneys for the six men charged in FBG Duck’s brazen killing moved to end the trial Wednesday amid concerns over an FBI agent’s testimony about alleged witness retaliation.
Ralph Turpin, 33, joins five other suspected O Block members accused of taking part in the attack on the rapper, Carlton Weekly, outside a Gold Coast boutique in 2020.
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The document lays out key evidence that led to last year’s indictment against five alleged O Block street gang members now accused in the brazen killing. It also points to so-called “diss tracks,” which have fueled street violence.
A federal prosecutor said Tacarlos “Los” Offerd purchased the vehicle used as the “lead car” in the Aug. 4, 2020, murder one week earlier. That vehicle was then returned to the dealership in the suburbs less than an hour after the deadly shooting, he said.
The rapper was shot dead and two others were wounded in the targeted afternoon attack in the first block of East Oak Street. Shoppers were on the sidewalk when a pair of vehicles pulled up and two gunmen got out and opened fire.
“I am asking that his fans, friends of my son, to please not seek retaliation in the death of my son…As his mother, I want to say please put the guns down so that the generation of tomorrow can grow and live and long and healthy life.”
The rapper, whose name was Carlton Weekly, was shot Tuesday on Oak Street. Wednesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot seeking the public’s help to catch the shooters, said: ‘Give no shelter to killers.’
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