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The City College stampede was a crowd crush event on December 28, 1991, in the City College of New York gymnasium during a charity basketball game organized and promoted by hip hop celebrities P. Diddy and Heavy D. Nearly 5,000 people tried to pack into the gymnasium, which could fit 2,730 people. [1]
Nine attendees were killed, and 29 more were injured. ... No criminal charges were filed, but a lawsuit later determined that Diddy and Heavy D were 50 percent responsible for the deaths, while ...
Heavy D, whose real name was Dwight Myers, died in 2011. No criminal charges were filed. Dirk Swain, 20, was among the nine young people killed at a 1991 hip-hop benefit organized by Sean "Diddy ...
Dwight Arrington Myers [1] [2] (May 24, 1967 – November 8, 2011), [3] known professionally as Heavy D, was an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Myers was the leader of Heavy D & the Boyz , a group that included dancers/hype men G-Whiz (Glen Parrish) and "Trouble" T. Roy (Troy Dixon), as well as DJ and producer Eddie F (Edward Ferrell).
Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.Raised in Mount Vernon, New York, [4] his mother Janice Combs (née Smalls) was a model and teacher's assistant, [5] and his father, Melvin Earl Combs, served in the U.S. Air Force and was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas.
“Sean would show up in the weirdest places — at Heavy D’s doorstep, he’d show up at Uptown, he’d show up at parties,” Patterson said. “Anything to get the attention of the bigwigs.”
Andre O’Neal Harrell (September 26, 1960 – May 7, 2020) was an American record executive, media proprietor, and former rapper. [3] He formed the short-lived East Coast hip hop duo Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde with Alonzo Brown in 1980; they signed with Profile Records the following year.
Porter and Combs had son Christian, now 26, and twin daughters Jessie and D’Lila, now 17. diddy/Instagram. Combs was arrested last week and charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking ...