Man shoots gang rival dead then raps about it on social media
Self-proclaimed rapper and gang member La’Darion Chandler is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of a gang rival. The suspect posted a video about it on social media, officials said. (Screenshot from a press conference at Polk County Police Department.)
A 19-year-old gang member is facing charges of first-degree murder for allegedly shooting a rival gang member in the back and then bragging about it in a rap video he posted on social media.
La’Darion Chandler was charged in the December 17 shooting of John McGee in the Lakeland subdivision, 40 miles east of Tampa, Florida. According to the McGee died 24 days later in a hospital Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
in one press conferencePolk County Sheriff Grady Judd reprimanded the suspect, calling him a stupid rapper and a coward.
“Well, first of all. come on man You shoot someone else in the back? What is that coward?” said Judd. “He’s just a terrible rapper. But he’s a dumb rapper for not just making him a rap video about shooting someone. He admits he shot the guy in the back. I’m a coward rapper. That’s what I am.”
Chandler was arrested on February 22 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after pointing a gun and threatening someone near where McGee was shot, officials said. A search of his home found ammunition in a black duffel bag, but no murder weapon.
Chandler was convicted of three felonies as a juvenile — escaping, stealing a motor vehicle and breaking into a vehicle, authorities said. He was also charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm or ammunition with a gang reinforcement, officials said.
Detectives found a rap video on Chandler’s social media pages in which he talks about shooting someone in the back – details that have not been released publicly.
Authorities said the lyrics in the video were:
N—- tries to run
I slapped his back
Although I shoot like a Mac
Dirt ass dead n—– knowing where to find me
Other rap songs on Chandler’s social media pages include lyrics about how he’s always armed and photos of himself with guns.
In addition to the first-degree murder charge, he faces aggravated assault with deadly weapons charges. Officials said his previous records barred him from possessing a gun.
Judd said McGee’s mother wanted authorities to talk about him because she is passionate about trying to stop the senseless violence being done to another mother’s child.
“He’s 33 years old,” Judd said of the victim. “Now he’s quite literally an adult, but he’s still his mother’s baby. He’s still her child. She readily admits that he has misbehaved his entire life and that he has behaved in a way that she does not approve of. And she told him that.
“He’s a troublemaker, make no mistake. But he shouldn’t have died.”
McGee was released from prison about two months before he was shot, Judd said.
McGee was initially scheduled to recover in the hospital, the sheriff said. But as he got better, he refused to take the medication the doctors prescribed to allow his body to heal.
He would not cooperate with the authorities from his hospital bed. Judd said he plans to get well and go back and get revenge on his rival.
“He wanted to take care of it himself,” Judd said.
McGee died on January 9th.
Judd said when Chandler was arrested by investigators last month, he initially kept his mouth shut, didn’t cooperate and “wanted to be mean.”
But when authorities showed him the first-degree murder warrant, “he started crying like a baby who lost his pacifier.”
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