Family members of Pedro Merchant, 20, who was arraigned on second-degree murder charges Friday, September 21, brawled with the family of his 17-year-old victim, Dante Quinones, in a courthouse in Hempstead, New York, leading to members of both families being arrested, reports the NY Daily News.[1] L-R: Accused murderer, Pedro Merchant, 20; Victim Dante Quinones, 17. According to the Nassau County Police Department, the two families were removed from the courtroom, but once they spilled out into the street, the brawl ballooned to include approximately 100 people. Eleven court officers were injured in the melee, with one requiring hospitalization. L-R: Abdul Rahim Robinson, Jerry Merchant and Louis Merchant (PHOTO CREDIT: NY Daily News) According to the Daily News, “the six alleged brawlers — Rahim Robinson, 22, Aaron Munlin, 20, Jerry Merchant, 50, Louis Merchant, 51, Shapeace Goodwine, 22, and Terry Green, 28 — were all expected to be back in the same court Saturday for their own a ...
by Anthony McCartneyAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police detectives apologized to the family of Notorious B.I.G. for failing to warn them about the planned release of his autopsy report more than 15 years after he died in a drive-by shooting, the Los Angeles Police Department said Saturday. ICONIC RAPPERS--In this March 8, 1997 file photo, Notorious B.I.G., whose real name is Christopher Wallace, left, gestures as he and producer Sean "Diddy" Combs leave a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles late Saturday evening, shortly before Wallace was shot to death. (AP Photo/Venus Bernardo-Prudhomme, File)
