UK drill rapper DigDat (actual identify Nathan Tokosi) has been arrested and charged with tried homicide, together with a number of gun expenses.
In response to a report by UK publication Information Shopper on Monday (February 19), Tokosi allegedly tried to fatally shoot a person in West London in November. He’s additionally accused of possessing a firearm with intent to hazard life/allow an different to take action, in addition to possessing three 9mm Parabellum-caliber bullets for a firearm.
DigDat is finest recognized for his 2018 single “Air Drive” and its accompanying remix which options Krept & Konan and Ok Entice. The latter peaked at No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart in December 2018.
He’s additionally had run-ins with the regulation earlier than, having served 5 years of a 10-year sentence he acquired on the age of 13 over a decade in the past, although it’s unconfirmed as to why. In 2022, he was despatched again to jail after violating the situations of his probation. He was launched seven months later in June of 2023.
Information of DigDat’s arrest for tried homicide arrives simply months after UK drill rapper Kay-O, who’s finest recognized for his music “AVEN9ERS,” was convicted of murdering his rival Kacey Boothe.
Boothe was shot lifeless final August in Walthamstow, North-East London exterior of a neighborhood centre, with Kay-O and three associates all convicted of the crime in addition to conspiring to homicide one other man, Khalid Samanter.
The taking pictures was the results of a rivalry between two totally different gangs which these concerned had been related to, and there had been a construct up of violent incidents in line with the police.
Per BBC Information, the court docket was instructed that Kay-O and the three different defendants had deliberate to kill Samanter, who’s a pal of Boothe’s exterior of his youngster’s birthday celebration. It’s believed that Samanter the primary goal and that it was not intentional to kill Boothe.
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The gun used within the killing was stated to have been beforehand used seven totally different instances together with to shoot Boothe’s brother Kyle in August 2020.
The court docket had been additionally knowledgeable that Kay-O, within the days after the taking pictures, posted a video on-line entitled “Laughing Inventory” wherein he bragged in regards to the homicide.
Police found Kay-O was the killer by taking a look at CCTV and will view him escaping the scene of the taking pictures in a stolen automotive. He, together with the others who had been convicted, might be sentenced on the identical court docket subsequent month, on a date that’s but to be confirmed.
The 4 discovered responsible of his homicide in complete are Ka’mani Brightly-Donaldson, Kammar Henry-Richards (Kay-O), Joao Pateco-te and Jeffrey Gyimah.
