“When you throw in gangs on top of these murders, that has a higher level of threshold of attention from the courts and from the media,’ he said. “When we watch a lot of these music videos, they’re generally talking about their literal life experience and their lived reality,” he said. The inclusion of lyrics and social media posts as evidence can be factual, but it can also be posturing or fictional, he said. Anthony Hutchinson, who works with Toronto-area gang members. That’s one way the Los Angeles Police Department was able to track him down, a filing says: “Based on social media postings, American law enforcement believes that Ali is in the LA area with an individual who is wanted by American law enforcement in relation to a separate homicide.”Īli does reference the “Go Getem Gang” in his music, and also his brother, including lines saying the last person “that dissed Foolish, he got bodied.”īut the names of these gangs can be ephemeral, said Dr. Since then, he taunted authorities, proclaimed his innocence via live videos on his social media accounts, and tried to launch new music videos. He was initially charged with accessory to murder, and when the charge was upgraded to first-degree murder in May, he is alleged to have cut his GPS tracking bracelet and fled to the U.S.
“Ali subsequently discussed killing people in retaliation for his brother’s death on public social media posts, including one less than three days before the murder,” the filing says, adding that Ali is not suspected of being the shooter, but being a passenger in the same vehicle.Īli is now in custody in California. He was mistaken for the person the shooters believed was the killer of Ali’s brother, Said Ali, known as “Foolish”, in 2017, the court filing says.
Hashi was murdered “because he happened to live in the rival gang’s turf," the filing says. Attorney’s office in the United States District Court for the Central District of California reads. Canada has charged him with the cold-blooded murder of Hashim Hashi,” a filing by the U.S. “Ali is a member of a violent Canadian street gang. authorities say Top5, whose real name is Hassan Ali, is a member of something called the “Go Getem Gang”, and say that explains his alleged involvement in the shooting death of an innocent man, 20-year-old Hashim Omar Hashi, an accounting student gunned down outside his parking lot back in January.
The Toronto rapper who was wanted for murder before he was arrested earlier this month in Los Angeles is a member of a criminal gang who organized a botched hit trying to target his brother's killer, according to documents unsealed in an American extradition hearing.
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