Jay-Z: I shot my brother and sold crack on the streets | Celebrity News | Now Magazine

Jay-Z: I shot my brother and sold crack on the streets | Celebrity News | Now Magazine: "Hip hop legend Jay-Z has revealed that he sold crack cocaine on the Brooklyn streets and shot his brother in the shoulder for stealing his ring.The rapper, real name Shawn Corey Carter, was just 12 years old when he aimed a pistol at older silbing Eric.‘I went to someone's crib, someone's house, and got a gun. Guns were everywhere,' recalls Jay-Z, 40.‘There was no one to police us. We were out of control. You didn't have to go far to get one.'Now a multi-millionaire and married to singer Beyonce Knowles, 29, Jay-Z says he was petrified about the consequences of his actions.‘I thought my life was over,' he tells the Guardia...

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Page Street Mob sentenced 26-year-old Dennis Cyrus on Friday to three life terms, all without the possibility of parole

An alleged San Francisco gang member convicted of three murders will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars.A federal judge sentenced 26-year-old Dennis Cyrus on Friday to three life terms, all without the possibility of parole.Cyrus was convicted last year of killing Joseph Hearns, Randy Mitchell and Ray Jimmerson in 2002 as part of a gang that was active in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood.Prosecutors say the Page Street Mob gang went after rivals and defectors to protect its drug business. Six other alleged gang members were previously convicted and sentenced.Prosecutors had sought the death penalty against Cyrus, but a jury decided against that sentence.Cyrus's lawyer, John Philipsborn, tells the San Francisco Chronicle he plans to appeal his client's convictio...

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Ballyfermot gangster, who is understood to have ordered the murders of the Corballys and Ryle, is well known to gardai.

gangsters who killed Robert Ryle had been intending to assassinate another man, it is believed.Ryle (30) was not the original target of the hit, which gardai suspect was ordered by a notorious gangland boss.The gun victim died yesterday morning in hospital after losing a three-day fight for his life. Ryle, from Blackditch Road, Ballyfermot, was blasted five times on Foxdene Avenue in Clondalkin shortly before 8.40pm on Sunday.It is believed his death is linked to a bloody feud between two gangs based in the Bally- fermot area. Brothers Kenneth (32) and Paul Corbally (35) from Ballyfermot were gunned down last June in the dispute.Ryle, who was an associate of the Corballys, had been driven to Foxdene Avenue by a woman friend on Sunday evening.When he stepped out of the car to walk up a driveway,...

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Salvatore Vitale,As a child, he was taught how to swim; as an adult, he was instructed how to kill.

Of all the life lessons that Salvatore Vitale took from a boyhood friend he idolized, two of them became practically second nature: As a child, he was taught how to swim; as an adult, he was instructed how to kill.The latter skill, he would later admit, was one he practised regularly on behalf of the friend, Joseph C. Massino, who would marry Vitale’s sister, become the boss of the Bonanno crime family and eventually elevate Vitale to serve as the underboss.Vitale’s criminal life story is laid out in sharp relief in a remarkable document that federal prosecutors in Brooklyn filed under seal last month. Nearly three centimetres thick, it contains a saga that spans more than three decades and touches on 23 murders, 11 of which Vitale directly participated in, and many other crimes that he and...

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Police arrest a total of three suspects in two different high profile murder cases.

Police found the body of 48-year-old Martin Zepeda on Tuesday inside a home on Tulare and Fifth in southeast Fresno. And almost one month to the day, 21-year-old Delmon Newsome was shot the death just yards from his southwest Fresno church.Police had to serve a total 12 search warrants to solve one crime. The other required hours of undercover surveillance. And their hard work paid off with arrests in both cases.A memorial still sits outside the home of Martin Zepeda Thursday night. Police say 23-year-old Alfredo Chavez and 19-year-old Brian Munoz have admitted to robbing him and beating him to death.A break in the case came when police found the two suspects in Zepeda's stolen car in west central Fresno. Zepeda's friend says he's glad someone is in custody."My sister told me earlier today...

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Twenty-nine members of the Insane M.O.B. (Money Over Bitches) gang were arrested

Federal and local agents said they took down the most violent gang in Orange County Thursday. Twenty-nine members of the Insane M.O.B. (Money Over Bitches) gang were arrested, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.Deputies told WFTV the gang was responsible for drive-by shootings, at least two murders, several attempted murders and drug dealing. Investigators say their criminal enterprise was based out of a barbershop.A 2006 shooting that left 18-year-old Joey Vera dead was the spark that Orange County Sheriff's investigators say ignited a street war and led to the rise of the county's most violent gang.Officers say, after a 3-year investigation, joined last year by state and federal agents, they dismantled the gang, arresting 29 men and women and taking weapons and drugs off the street."There...

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Bulger Task Force, an FBI-led team that includes state police investigators and state prisons officers.

FBI has enlisted the help of another federal law enforcement agency in the hunt for fugitive Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger.The U.S. Marshals Service, known for its success in tracking down wanted men, recently assigned a deputy marshal to work full time with the Bulger Task Force, an FBI-led team that includes state police investigators and state prisons officers.U.S. Marshal John Gibbons says his agency “looks forward” to bringing the 81-year-old Bulger to justice.A spokesman for the FBI’s Boston office tells The Boston Globe the hope is that the marshals’ international contacts will help track down Bulger.Bulger disappeared just before his January 1995 federal racketeering indictment in Boston and was later charged with 19 murders. The last confirmed Bulger sighting was in 2002 in...

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Armed robber Brian Leslie O’Callaghan would be recalled with fear by bank staff he menaced, but was yesterday remembered fondly by gangland cohorts.

MAN described as among the heaviest of Melbourne’s underworld figures during the 1970s has died, aged 62.Armed robber Brian Leslie O’Callaghan would be recalled with fear by bank staff he menaced, but was yesterday remembered fondly by gangland cohorts.He was a close mate of Raymond Chuck Bennett, who masterminded the Great Bookie Robbery, and was also a member of the notorious Kangaroo Gang.When Bennett was murdered at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court in 1979, it was feared O’Callaghan was the most likely to square up.O’Callaghan escaped from prison in NSW the day after his mate was killed.Notorious crime figure Billy Longley, who did time with O’Callaghan in Pentridge Prison’s H Division, said O’Callaghan was highly regarded among criminals.“He was respected by all who knew him,” Longley said.“He...

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Two boys left to die during a bloody rampage in a Memphis home

Two boys left to die during a bloody rampage in a Memphis home turned into key witnesses who helped convict their uncle of six murders in one of the city's worst mass slayings.Jurors concluded Monday after less than two hours of deliberations that Jessie Dotson, 35, shot his brother in the head during an argument, then used two guns to kill five other people, including two young nephews, trying to eliminate all witnesses. He then stabbed three more boys, who hung on for some 40 hours until help arrived, prosecutors said.Two years later, two of the survivors pointed to their "Uncle Junior" as the man who shot their dad and slashed at them knives, enough to convince the jury that Dotson was guilty of six murders and not the gang members he said committed the crimes. Those same jurors will decide...

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top ten list is the top ten world most dangerous gangs

top ten list is the top ten world most dangerous gangs10. Area BoysTerritory: Nigeria and parts of AfricaCriminal activities: Drug trafficking, extortion, murder, inciting riotsNumber of members: 35,000Over the past three decades, Nigeria’s Area Boys have gone from young kids committing crimes of opportunity to a massive if still largely unorganized street gang responsible for acts of extortion and murder.9. Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)Territory: Brazilian prison systemCriminal activities: Drug and gun trafficking, murder, extortion, prison riots, prison breaks, kidnappingNumber of members: 6,000-plusA Brazilian gang, this gang is one of the newest Brazilian prison gangs to be formed. Founded in 1993 Primeiro Comando da Capital the gang is known to have carried out about 300 attacks,...

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Thavone Narong, identified Friday as the man shot to death on an Abbotsford street Thursday morning, was the father of one of the Surrey Six victims

Thavone Narong, identified Friday as the man shot to death on an Abbotsford street Thursday morning, was the father of one of the Surrey Six victims and had just been released from jail weeks before he was killed.Cpl. Dale Carr, a spokesman for the RCMP's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said there was no link between the two shootings except that the victims were related.Narong, 49, of Abbotsford, lost his son Eddie Narong, 22, in the Oct. 19, 2007 murders in a Surrey apartment, now known as the Surrey Six killings."I want to make it clear they are separate investigations, nearly three years apart, and there is nothing to show a link between the two," said Carr.He said police officers were speaking to Narong's friends and associates to determine whether the shooting was gang-related...

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guns - dubbed Showstoppers in the underworld - are smuggled into Britain from abroad - before being snapped up on the cheap by drug dealers and crime

guns - dubbed Showstoppers in the underworld - are smuggled into Britain from abroad - before being snapped up on the cheap by drug dealers and crime clan enforcers across Scotland. And detectives are investigating whether one of the guns was used in the shooting of a 41-year-old in Glasgow 10 days ago.Showstoppers are replica Smith & Wesson Colt 45 revolvers designed to fire blanks. But experts yesterday confirmed they are easily converted into deadly weapons capable of firing 9mm bullets. A source close to Chapman said: "Guys are queuing up for one of his guns and he's doing a roaring trade because they're so cheap."He flogs them for as...

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footballer from Kenton who shot dead a gang rival in Brent has been jailed for life.

Gavin Grant, 26, gunned down former friend Leon Labastide outside his mother's house on the Stonebridge Estate in May 2004. Grant, of Shrewsbury Avenue, continued his promising football career after the shooting, playing for Millwall, Gillingham, and as recently as May turning out for Bradford City. But a jury at the Old Bailey decided last week Grant and Birmingham resident Gareth Downie, 25, had been contracted to carry out the killing in revenge for an earlier burglary alleged to have been orchestrated by Mr Labastide. A third man, Damien Williams, 33, of Bermondsey, was found guilty of conspiracy to murder having arranged for Grant and Downie to lie in wait for the victim and shoot him dead. The trio were all jailed for life, and were told by Judge Peter Beaumont they must serve at least...

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actor Michael Caine has revealed that he had a close shave with Russian mafia

actor Michael Caine has revealed that he had a close shave with Russian mafia while shooting in the country for one of his films in the 1990s.Michael was filming scenes for his 1996 movie ‘Midnight in Saint Petersburg’ and was assigned two machine gun-toting guards to protect him from the local mob.However, he soon realized he was safe when the gangsters told him they were bankrolling his movie and he’s not on the list of hitmen.“I was sitting in my usual corner of the cafe when one of the mafia guys came over and asked if he could join me. As if I could possibly say no. Why do you have all these stupid bodyguards?’ he asked. I replied to him all innocently, as if I had no idea of his occupation: ‘They say that there’s mafia here in St Petersburg and I’m worried about our safety,” the Daily...

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the New Boys are declaring a war on one club, they can expect to cop it from all clubs

The New Boys has been undercutting other dealers, and targeted outlaw bikies, the Hell's Angels, in a series of drive-by shootings in August.The New Boys emerged in the northern suburbs about four years ago and once congregated at pubs around Elizabeth and Smithfield. They use Hindley St as their base, as well as the Norwood entertainment strips, including The Parade, where they sell drugs. The gang has two "chapters" and is extensively involved in selling drugs, including ecstasy tablets and methamphetamine, and street fights, usually using knives.The group said to be headed by a city tattooist, the target of the bungled bomb attack who lashed out at cameramen yesterday when he returned to his home, metres from the crime scene.It was two hours before sunrise on Thursday when Enfield shook...

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targeted killings in Monterey County during the past year are the result of gang orders to cleanse the area of those considered traitors by Norteños

targeted killings in Monterey County during the past year are the result of gang orders to cleanse the area of those considered traitors by Norteños and their parent gang, the Nuestra Familia.Recent slayings of at least seven people not in good standing with the gang in Greenfield and Salinas led investigators to conclude that a "cleanup" of the streets in the wake of two large federal racketeering cases is continuing."We're dealing with violence that is spread across the Salinas Valley and beyond," Greenfield Police Chief Joe Grebmeier said. "The issues are not in any one city and the solutions will have to involve the region."Gang members,...

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Hells Angels violent biker war with the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club

Rising tensions between two biker gangs have Winnipeg police closely monitoring their actions.Police paid close attention to a bar at a St. Boniface hotel Saturday night following a tip that a fight could be imminent.The news follows a serious attack against a Winnipeg member of the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club inside a business on St. Mary's Road about three weeks ago.Sources tell CTV News the victim was lured to the business where he was then beaten.The victim had such serious injuries that he was unrecognizable.Officers say they had received information that the people responsible for the attack were Hells Angels members and a few of their associates.The group was allegedly unhappy with the victim because he is a former member of the Zig Zag crew, which is a puppet club to the Hells Angels.He...

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24-year-old Howard Astorga, found guilty of first-degree murder

Four-year-old Roberto Lopez loved creating artwork out of glitter and sequins at a neighborhood arts and community center in the southern edge of Echo Park. It was while Roberto was near that neighborhood center that he was fatally shot a year ago last month by a gang member on parole. Today, a jury found that gang member, 24-year-old Howard Astorga, found guilty of first-degree murder, according to Associated Press. Astorga was firing his gun at a speeding car but one of those bullets struck Roberto instead. Astorga faces a prison sentence of 82 years to life.Since the murder, several groups have tried to organize residents of the neighborhood, wedged between Temple Street and Vista Hermosa Park, against cri...

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Morgan Hill police are offering $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the gang-related death

Morgan Hill police are offering $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the gang-related death of a 24-year-old Hollister man, the city's first homicide in four years.Sgt. Jerry Neumayer said today that detectives are still trying to figure out who killed Juan Jose Arrellano Jr. on Oct. 2.Shortly before midnight that day, police responded to 911 calls from residents who heard multiple shots fired near the Crest Avenue apartments. The arriving officer found Arrellano on the sidewalk, bleeding from a gunshot wound in his upper body. He was pronounced dead at 11:35 p.m.Witnesses told police they saw at least two young men, between 16 and 20 years old and wearing dark blue clothing, shoot Arrellano with a 9 mm handgun while shouting gang-related slurs.Arrellano...

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Capture of Raydel Lopez Uriarte and Manuel Garcia Simental apparently wipes out the existing leadership of the cartel headed by Teodoro Garcia Simenta

Capture of Raydel Lopez Uriarte and Manuel Garcia Simental apparently wipes out the existing leadership of the cartel headed by Teodoro Garcia Simental, who was captured last month. Teodoro and Manuel Garcia are brothers.Lopez, known as "El Muletas," and Garcia, known as "El Chiquilin," were arrested Monday in La Paz, a city in the southern end of the Baja California peninsula, said Amy Roderick, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.Mexico's Public Security Department confirmed the arrests in a brief statement, describing Manual Garcia as the gang's leader after his brother's arrest and Lopez as the current second-in-command....

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Today another Mexican cartel leader was taken off the street and is no longer able to carry out his bloody turf war

Teodoro Garcia Simental, blamed for a years-long campaign of massacres, beheadings and kidnappings that chased away tourists and caused social upheaval in northern Baja California, was arrested by Mexican federal police without the suspect firing a shot, and immediately flown to Mexico City.The heavyset Garcia, believed to be in his mid-30s, with close-trimmed hair and a goatee, scowled and dabbed at his mouth as he was paraded before television cameras at a police base wearing a zippered warm-up jacket.Better known for savage killing rampages than narco-business acumen, the man nicknamed "El Teo" bedeviled Mexican authorities for years and narrowly escaped capture several times. Last January, authorities arrested the man they said admitted being Garcia's body disposal expert. Known as El...

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masked gunman walked into a southern Sacramento County Vietnamese restaurant Wednesday afternoon and executed a 22-year-old man at close range.

authorities are calling a likely gang hit, a masked gunman walked into a southern Sacramento County Vietnamese restaurant Wednesday afternoon and executed a 22-year-old man at close range.No words were exchanged before the unknown assailant fired a black semiautomatic handgun multiple times at the victim, hitting him in the head and chest, said Sacramento County Sheriff’s Sgt. Tim Curran.The gunman fled on foot down 53rd Avenue, and had not been identified by evening, Curran said.Few homicides investigated by authorities, he said, are “as cold and as calculated as this one.”“It’s very scary,” he said.Curran said detectives suspect the killing to be gang-related because the victim had been validated as a gang member by law enforcement and because the area – near Stockton Boulevard and the 65th...

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Eastside Riva, numbering about 800, as Riverside's oldest and "most violent" street gang, at war with the 1200 Blocc Crips

people with alleged ties to two rival street gangs engaged in a bloody years-long war in Riverside were arrested today in an operation aimed at taking down the gangs' leadership."Operation Promise," a coordinated federal, state and local law enforcement sweep, targeted the Eastside Riva and the 1200 Blocc Crips, leading to the arrests of 50 people, the seizure of 28 guns and two pet rattlesnakes, authorities said."This unprecedented operation is part of my ongoing promise to bring hope and restoration to the people of Riverside," said Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco, who made the announcement during a news briefing at the Regency Tower in downtown Riverside.Pacheco. was joined by representatives from the various law enforcement agencies that participated in the sweep, including...

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2009 was the bloodiest in Jamaica’s history.

1,680 killings in ’09 highest in country’s history.According to statistics released by the police yesterday, 1,680 murders were recorded in 2009, a four per cent increase over the 1,618 homicides reported in 2008.According to the police, approximately 52 per cent (859) of the murders committed last year “were due to intra-gang and internal gang feuds, in addition to reprisal killings”.October proved to be the deadliest month last year with a total 177 murders reported. There were 155 murders in May while December rounded out the top three with 152 murders.There was no month when fewer than 100 murders were committed.Portland, which for many years showed very low murder figures, recorded the largest percentage increase in murders during 2009, moving from 11 in 2008 to 20 last year for an overall...

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BLACK PRISON GANGS

Black Guerrilla Family - United Blood Nation - DC Blacks - 415 Kumi Nation - BloodsCrips - Mandingo Warriors - Black Warriors - Jamaican Posse - African American CouncilNation of Islam - Black Panthers - El Rukns - People Nation - Black P. Stones - Vice LordsMickey Cobras - Folk Nation - Black Disciples - Gangster Discip...

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Aryan Brotherhood members make up less than one percent of the nation's prison inmate population,

Aryan Brotherhood members make up less than one percent of the nation's prison inmate population, yet the white prison gang is responsible for 18% of all prison murders.The Aryan Brotherhood picked the name because it showed white supremacy and the shamrock (clover) because it is the sign of the Irish (the original members had to be part Irish). They use the "666", which is the sign of the beast (it's earned for committing a murder), and the swastika, for one that takes pride in being hated & feared by their enemies. Only members of the AB are permitted to wear the "brand" of the gang; individuals found to be wearing the tattoo without consent are subject to being murdered.Sworn code of the AB:I will stand by my brother.My brother will come before all others.My life is forfeit should I...

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LATINO PRISON GANGS

Nortenos - Surenos - Mexican Mafia - Nuestra Familia - Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) Texas Syndicate - Mexikanemi - Barrio Azteca - Pistoleros Latinos - Fresno Bulldogs Florencia 13 - 18th Street Gang - Latin Kings - Maniac Latin Disciples - Latin Counts Tango Blast - Los Solidos - Tri City Bombers - Border Brothers - West Texas Tango Raza Unida - Texas Chicano Brotherh...

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WHITE PRISON GANGS

WHITE PRISON GANGS Aryan Brotherhood - Nazi Low Riders - Public Enemy #1 (PENI) - PeckerwoodsAryan Circle - Dirty White Boys - Aryan Knights - European KindredSkinheads - Hammerskins - Thorndale JagOffs - Silent Aryan Warriors Almighty Gaylords - Simon City Royals - Insane Gangster Disciples Dead Man Inc. - Krieger Verwandt - Brotherhood of Aryan Alliance United Brotherhood Kindred - Saxon Knights - Aryan Warriors Neo-Nazis - KKK - TCB Hate Crew - Fourth Reich - American Front Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs in the United States - Henchmen MC Hells Angels MC - Pagans MC - Sons of Silence MC - Mongols MC - Outlaws MC Gypsy Joker MC - Diablos MC - Vagos MC - Black Pistons MC - Bandidos MC Highwaymen MC - Warlocks MC - Brother Speed MC - The Breed...

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Heavily armed gangs who once ran Haiti's largest slum like warlords have returned with a vengeance

Mounted on motorcycles, and brandishing assault rifles and guns thought to have been stripped from prison guards during the quake, the gang members include one stone-cold killer known only by the street name "Blade."Heavily armed gangs who once ran Haiti's largest slum like warlords have returned with a vengeance since Tuesday's earthquake damaged the National Penitentiary allowing 3,000 inmates to break out.The pacification of Cite Soleil had been one of President Rene Prevail's few undisputed achievements since taking office in 2006, until the quake devastated Port-au-Prince."It's only natural that they would come back here. This has always been their stronghold," said a Haitian police officer in the teeming warren of shacks, alleys and open sewers that is home to more than 300,000 people.He...

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Glasgow Gang war following the execution of Kevin Carroll.

Lyons crime clan had been prime suspects in the fatal shooting of Carroll, a lieutenant of arch-enemies, the Daniels.But last night, the Daniel family faced accusations from within that they may have been behind the hit themselves.Sources claimed bosses believed Carroll - nicknamed "Gerbil" - had grown increasingly out of control and become more trouble than he was worth.He was gunned down while sitting in a car with two associates in the car park of Asda at Robroyston, Glasgow, on Wednesday.Now Gerbil loyalists are said to be simmering with resentment at suggestions his murder may have been an "inside job".Carroll, 29, had a tempestuous relationship with the mother of his two sons, Kelly Bo - daughter of Daniel family boss Jamie.The pair had violent rows and Carroll had also bad-mouthed Jamie....

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Kevin "The Gerbil" Carroll assassinated in an ASDA car park was killed for "grassing" up hitmen

Kevin "The Gerbil" Carroll assassinated in an ASDA car park was killed for "grassing" up the hitmen behind a notorious shooting, underworld sources told the Record last night.Kevin "The Gerbil" Carroll was shot five times in the head in broad daylight as he sat in a car 100 yards from the supermarket entrance.And it's claimed he paid with his life for informing on gunmen Raymond Anderson snr and James McDonald, who carried out a murderous attack in 2006 on an MOT garage run by a rival crime clan.Carroll, 29, and Anderson snr were both associates of the feared Daniel gang.But a source said: "There was no love lost between them. As far as Raymond was concerned, Gerbil was a grass."Anderson snr was aware of the plot to kill Carroll.And word of the shooting reached his cell at Shotts jail, where...

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