Two Hip-Hop Artists and Cousins Tied To Wu-Tang Clan Killed!
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CelebnMusic247.com reports two members of a Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated hip-hop group were fatally shot in Northeast Portland on Tuesday, police confirmed.
Relatives on social media identified the rap music artists killed as 12 O’Clock and Murdock of the Brooklyn Zu.
Oregon Live reports:
Portland police on Wednesday identified the men as cousins Odion Turner, 50, known as 12 O’Clock, and David Turner, 45, who was Murdock.
The shooting occurred at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday in the area of Northeast 82nd Avenue and Milton Street.
The men were killed and four others wounded in the shooting, including one person who remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, police said. That person arrived at a hospital by private vehicle.
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In a video posted on Instagram from a plane, Divine Turner said his father, 12 O’Clock, had been killed.
Turner said:
So I’m out of town away from home on business and I get the call that they murdered my father. I don’t know what to do.
A caption on the video said:
It’s a sad day for me…They assassinated my father in #Oregon.’
Young Dirty Bastard, the son of the late Wu-Tang rap legend Ol’ Dirty Bastard, wrote in an Instagram post-Tuesday:
Rip 12 O’Clock. Rip Murdock. They Were My Fathers Tightest blood bonds. My Two Older cousins Was just assassinated. Love Y’all. Blood Forever. Brooklyn Zu.
Princhesca Rainier Turner, Odion Turner’s wife of more than 20 years who lives in Florida, said her husband was living in Portland where he has many family members.
The same day he was shot and killed, their oldest daughter had a baby, she said:
August 10, 2021, How could one day bring so much joy and so much pain? My heart doesn’t know how to separate being empty and full at the same time.
The site continues to report:
Other relatives said the cousins grew up in Brooklyn, New York, but moved to Oregon many years ago. Portland became their home base as the two cousins toured and performed.
Police have released few details of the circumstances of the shooting. A home surveillance video provided to The Oregonian/OregonLive captured nearly 20 gunshots ringing out in the street and a car speeding away west on Milton Street toward 82nd Avenue in the early morning darkness.
The Northeast Portland area where shots rang out early Tuesday was quiet Wednesday afternoon, but a trail of blood leading from a bullet-riddled minivan into a nearby home was the only calling card of the deadly violence from the morning before.
A memorial with photos, notes, balloons, and torches was also set up on 82nd Avenue.
The cousins’ deaths marked the 57th and 58th homicides this year in Portland, according to police. The homicide count eight months into the year has surpassed the total number in Portland for all of 2020. Last year, Portland recorded its highest number of homicides in over a quarter-century.
