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SMH: Bronx Man Killed While Defending His Mom From Violent Hecklers For Singing Chris Brown Songs

A NYC was killed while defending his mom singing a Chris Brown song… Bronx Man Killed For Defending His Mother’s Singing A Bronx man was shot in the head and killed Sunday night for standing up to a bunch of punks who were insulting his mother’s singing outside the building where they lived, officials said. Via NYPost reports: Verbena Burgess, 50, said she was outside belting out Chris Brown’s “Take You Down” when several young men across the street from the Morris Avenue apartment building where she lives told her to keep it down. The standoff escalated into two fights, the last one of which ended with her oldest son, Tony, shot to death on a building staircase. “The boys threw a bottle at me for singing,” Verbena said. “I said to him, ‘Why did you throw the bottle at me?’ He said, ‘Shut the f–k up.’ Then he got a piece of paper and threw it at me. I said, ‘I’m going to call 911 because you’re bothering me.’ “Then he said, ‘Call them. Call your sons.’ That’s when I rang the bell.” Moments later, Tony and two of her other sons came outside to her defense, and got into a fight with the group from across the street before chasing them off. “When we started fighting, they ran,” said Burgess’ brother Shaquille, 20. “So we came back inside the building and they came back and they got inside our building, and we started fighting again. “I was in the basement in the back with my little brother fighting one of the guys and my big brother was with two other people, fighting two guys, and one of the guys came in with the gun and he shot as my big brother was going up the stairs.” EMS rushed Burgess to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, officials said. ”I just feel like if you start something and a fight is what you get yourself into, a fight is what it should be,” Shaquille said. “It shouldn’t have to be you getting a gun.” Burgess’ family said he was trying to save money to get his own apartment, and had plans to get a GED and go to college. “I looked after Tony and he looked after me,” Verbena said. “That was my pride, that was my joy. That was everything to me. Tony was a good person. He’d never hurt nobody — never ever ever hurt nobody. “I was out there singing. I love to sing.” Cops said no arrests have been made, but a lobby camera might have caught some of the melee. “They killed my son for no reason,” Verbena said. “Maybe they tried to torture me for something, I don’t know. I was out there singing. I love to sing.” You can’t be serious! Just when you thought Breezy had it bad this man was killed just for defending his own mother!! SMH

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SMH: Bronx Man Killed While Defending His Mom From Violent Hecklers For Singing Chris Brown Songs

Get Rich To This: Shady New Jersey Public Official Admits To Stealing $460,000 In Quarters In Parking Meter Money!

You jinglin’, baby New Jersey Official Admits He Stole $460,000 In Quarters From City Via HuffingtonPost The former public works inspector for a northern New Jersey town has admitted stealing $460,000 in quarters. The Record reports Thomas Rica pleaded guilty Wednesday to four counts of theft. In return, prosecutors will recommend that he receive five years’ probation and pay about $200,000 in restitution to Ridgewood. The 43-year-old Hawthorne resident lost his job with Ridgewood in January 2013, following his arrest for taking $500 in coins from its parking meter collection room. But investigators later determined that he stole $460,000 overall. Authorities said the thefts occurred over the course of 25 months. They say Rica was not authorized to be in the room but would enter it and fill his pockets with money. They say he deposited the money — more than 1.8 million quarters — in his bank account. We want our public officials to “make change”, but not like this…SMH Image via Shutterstock

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Get Rich To This: Shady New Jersey Public Official Admits To Stealing $460,000 In Quarters In Parking Meter Money!