According to reports, Thompson (32) helped murder 15-year-old Phoenix Garrett after he spotted him selling bootleg CDs of Dipsets albums in Harlem, New York.
Thompson, who's best known as "Zoo," reportedly worked as ab "enforcer" for Dipset , travelling with them to gigs and parties, and "serving as muscle when they encountered enemies from other hip hop factions."
Cops say that on June 16th, 2005, while selling CDs on 144th St. in Harlem, NY, Garrett was approached by Carlos Thompson and a group of his cohorts. After being threatened by Thompson, Garrett reportedly attempted to defend himself by pulling out a box cutter and "slashing at the older man's face."
A brief struggle broke up ending up with Garrett being beat and stomped by Thompson and his crew. After Garrett managed to break away from the group, Thompson reportedly ordered a member of his crew to retrieve a .38 from his car.
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The group eventually caught up with Garrett and continued the beating. Thompson then ordered a 13-year-old member of his crew, L'mani Delima, to shoot Garrett.
Garrett was fatally shot five times.
The 13-year-old was apprehended at the scene, he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Cops are still on the hunt for Thompson who has evading them for nearly three years using funding which cops theorize comes from friends in the Hip Hop community.
COMMENTS
MAN WHAT A PUNK ASS BITCH!!!! FUCKIN KILLIN 15 YEAR OLD KIDS!!!! AND HE HAD A GROUP WITH HIM TO APPROACH THE KID!!! WHAT A CLOWN ASS NIGGA!!! I HOPE THE MUTHA FUCKA GETS WHATS COMIN TO HIM!!! BITCH ASS!!!
u got that shit right. i dont wish prison on niggas, but this jackass belongs in one.
why is this guy rollin with teenagers anyway? hes a grown man
hahaha had a group of 13- year olds with him shits sad
O HES GETTIN WHATS COMIN TO HIM BELIEVE THAT..HE GONE ROTT IN PRISON AND GO TO HELL!!!!!! I HOPE BOOTLEGGIN WAS WORTH HIS LIFE CUZ ONCE U ON A.M.W. ....YOU OFFICIALY HIT!!!!!
T PRINCE BELOW ME TALKIN BOUT 991 A JOKE (WHICH IT IS THO) BUT DIP SET IS A JOKE...
Fucc That Coward Azz Lame Nigga....No Ballz Not Even A Gangsta Nigga More Like A TRue Bitch Move.....R.I.P. Lil Homie SCREAM AT ME,1..
shag that was a dumb as statement. grown men aint supposed to be runnin wit 13 year old kids stupid.
some city of god shit happenin in harlem dam thats fucked
they gave a 13 yr old 8 yrs in prison...
i dont believe that...
But I bet that a lot of DipSet supporters may think this shit is "gangsta"...
Fuckin' ridiculous!
~Be Eazy!
dipset supporters only have half a brain, so yeah they probably do think that dumb shit gangsta.
1st.. Shagz is a dumb fake ass gangsta nigga... I dont wish death on no one.. Da only time i remotely get off like dat is if a nigga had it in for me and/or my famz... Get you head our of yo ass and grow da fuck up.. I bet you hang wit 12 year oldz and shyt...
But really tho.. dat nigga a pussy for gettin a kid shot.. I mean even if da nigga was bootleggin dem WACK ass Dipset CD's.. SO DA FUCK WAT??? does it bother that much cuzz da kid tryin to eat, by sellin da garbage dat you niggaz put out... I mean really, I undastand being down for da team, but dis nigga iz a fucking clown for snubbin a kid cuzz he sellin some wack ass cd's that just happen to be your crew's garbage ass shit...
Karma is a cruel ass bitch... He find dat out one way or another...
thats fucked up
i dont blame the kid Garret for sellin the worthless dipset CDz on bootleg...like com on now, i wont in a milliion years go to the store to pick up a Max B, Freeky Zeeky or Chubbie Baby record...
this clown belongs to a jail....fuck that electric chair shit, just keep him in there forever
it's just another sign of the world coming to the end..Sad
Remember that this is THE POLICE's side of this story before you go condemning this Man to prison for life.
The can get a 13 year old to say just about anything when they got him in that precinct.
This is the same exact reason why half of black america is locked away in prison.
Nevermind.
What I meant to say was - He deserves the death penalty for being a part of DipSet.
^^^lol
you're right..the police will twist a story in order to make a person seem guilty to the public so when he's judge by his pairs he will be hung...do you really think it was as simple as a teenager bootlegging c.d.'s you know how many bootleggers there are in new york it's bigger than that and who is to say he even told the kid to kill him...little niggas always trying to be down...you seen how riley was riding thugnificent meat on the boondocks lol these kids do anything when they think you a rapper or somethiing
This is not the police story. This is over 60 eye witnesses story. Unfortunately, two lives were destroyed because of this idiot. Yes, he should be condemned to prison or worse. L'mani Delima was charged as an adult, took a plea of eight to life and later rejected it because his Dipset paid lawyer had forced him to do so and the court realized this. It was a bad plea since now he went to trial and blew it and is facing nine to life on June 25, 2008. When you do adult crimes you must do adult time. Maybe if you had followed the trial you would have learned that the kid is lucky to be alive. When the Dipset goons ran and left him holding the smoking gun a lieutenant. from the 30th precinct asked him to stop and drop the gun, he kept running. He is lucky that the lieutenant tackled him instead of shooting him. Then we would have heard white lieutenant shot black suspect. There is a whole lot that happened that tragic day and after that that you don't know. Did anyone tell you that eye witnesses saw Jim Jones stomping on Phoenix Garret? The kid was not even selling Dips*hit's music. he was selling his brother's music and Jim didn't like that. I didn't see him kicking, Tru Life, Loon, and the people in Ruckers asses?
911 is a joke
Thats a damn shame, we live in a fucked up generation.
DATS SUM HOE SHIT YOU GONE KILL A YOUNG NIGGA FOR SELLIN BOOTLEG DIPSET CD I HOP3 HE GET GOT 6 FT. UNDER
^^^^^^ since dat bitch nigga fuck wit 13 year old's they should dig him 3 mo feet
most of you foools on defsounds that have never even seen a REAL gun or a dead body are just talkin shit outta da side of your fuckin mouths (or should i say keyboard)
people get killed in Philly all day...i wonder wtf ur doin in the safety of ur crib and typing away on ur keyboard...why dont u go out there since this aint news 2 u
nigga u doin the same thing. u aint in philly neither u on your keyboard like everybody else hear so quit wit that gangsta shit fake nigga
my bad i thought u was just talkn shit i aint no u was talkin to that philly nigga. u probably aint even from philly.
this shit started over bootleg cd's
smh
Exactly, Bootleg CD, If ur hurt take tha money and tell him to scrum, lets do tha maths he cudnt have got a lot for those bootlegs, and u go head and kill a nigga for a couple of dollars, I thought the Remy ma thing was crazy, this goes beyond that, way beyond
fuckin clown son damn it was a fuckin kid punk ass pussy
first da story says threatenin him to stop doin da shyt than da BOY pulled da box cutter first da shyt said it for self defense if they threatenin y put up a fite? second he prob rollin wit 13 year old to teach em da business 3rd datz fucked up to keep after him truely is but da dude brought it on himself slashin sum faces n shyt but RIP Phoenix Garrett
shut the fuck up bitch.
darnella got styled on.....Sad 4real.It's not that serious...That man deserves leathal injection
damn yall dont show the fat bitch no love
he got a kid to kill a kid he gon get the death sentence. this stupid ass bitch deserves it. and this fool is even stupider due to the fact it was over bootleg CDs
.....?....i cant and dont know what to say ...?
"serving as muscle when they encountered enemies from other hip hop factions." LOL they actin as if dipset is some kind of mafia, and I dont call talkin back and forth in the studio "enemies from other hip hop factions" shyts a joke man. fuck dis lame as nigga and fuck dipset dat disfunctional fuck boy group
I feel you g, ain no such thing as muscle when it comes to studio beef, only loud mouths and fake promises
smh.. how da fuck ur gonna kill a kid over sellin cd's.. wat he shouls of done is try n get a hustle like lil homie... i tell u about these "thugs"... RIP TO Phoenix Garrett
he didnt kill that lil nigguh cuz of tha bootlegs he did it cuz he cut dudes face wit a box cutta for confrontin him, lil kid shouldve sliced dudes neck not face
The bullshit Dipset pumps in it's music fuels stupid shit like this...not saying it's a major reason, bbut when dumb shit like this happen people wonder why hip-hop(stracth that cuz dipset is as far away from hiphop in my opinion as earth from pluto)rap music is under attack...
how much of a man does it take to not only kill an kid but ruin another kids life by ordering him to shoot him? wonder how guy sleeps at night
mayb thats why cam is hiding? haha naw 4 real thats fucked up, gives dipset a worse rep than it alredy is.
gethip had me crying i was laughing so hard^^^^^^^^
I say lock his ass up forever!!! with no windows or vistors, no food..let his ass starve to death. punish that muthafucka...poke his eyes out..chop his fingers off...lol..hold up..im going into silence of the lambs mode..lol..
killin kids is no good!
is this hip hop? no. they cant even rap. u reap what u sew. another strapped, ignorant, bottle popping a-hole off the streets that cant influence kids anymore sounds good for the community to me. its time to stop being ignorant and using "ghetto" cicrumstances as excuses to dv8 from the norm. this is coming from the Southside of Chicago.
nigga r u tryna rap?
I DONT KNOW WHAT SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOODS YA COME FROM BUT IM FROM BROOKLYN AND THE GRIM REALITY IS KIDS ALSO KILL, I WAS SHOT AT THE AGE OF 13 AND IM 28, THE LIL MUFUCKA WAS BOOTLEGGING SHIT, HE TRIED OR DID CUT THE MANS FACE BEFORE THEY LAID HANDS ON HIM, I WOULDVE BLEW HIS FUCKIN BRAINS OUT FUCK THAT! I DONT CARE IF HE 12, YOU TRY ME I KILL YOU, AND FOR YA NON BELIEVERS I KNOW YA NOT FROM THE HOOD, LET A LIL NIGGA TRY TO CUT YOU AND TAKE FOOD FROM UR PLATE, FUCK THAT! SHITS REAL IN THE FIELD, RAISE UR FUCKIN KIDS BETTER INSTEAD OF WISHING PRISON ON NIGGAS YA BITCHES!
I cosign
damn str8, BK all day
but I only cosign a couple parts though, read below on my other comment
I doubt a 15 year old pulled a blade on a group of grown niggas just because they told him he couldnt sell bootleg CDs anymore. The way this shit REALLY went down is probably a far far cry from the story that the 13 year old killer told the cops.
My guess is that the kid selling the CDs probably got wigged for no other reason than the 13 year old trying to prove himself to a bunch of hood stars.
And I dont give a fuck where you from or how rough it is. When a lil ass nigga gets murdered behind some dumb shit like that IT IS FUCKING TRAGIC. If that was your little brother you would be dying inside everytime you thought about it.
killa we know that kids kill kids everyday and its sad that it happens. but for anyone to think a person deserves to die for sellin bootleg cds is absolutely insane. he probably pull that box cutter because he was out numbered (just think about that for a second) what would you do in that situation, especially if your only 15 and you get approached by a grown ass man.
man shut up nigga if u feel hood 4 killin some lil kid then fuck you and yo hood aint shit real about killin kids you gotta be the weakest nigga to do some shit like that give his ass a spakin but dont kill no kid or get some other kid to do it and do start runnin yo mouth tryna justify that shit cus i dont care where you from a man is a man and if you gotta roll on a little kid to prove yoself then you dont know shit about bein a man.
hopefully some dudes run up on this bitch motherfucker in prison, i'd donate to the teardrop account
to killaprez your wrong. i understand trying to defend yourself and shit but i mean comeone he wasnt loosing out on any money. hes just the muscle for dipset. plus one 15 yr. old kid tryin to sell some bootlegs tryin to put food on his plate like you said. then that stupid muthafucker should have went around the whole god damn city of new york and wack every kid sellin bootleg cds is that what your sayin. and also have enough to kill a muthafucker yourself dont get some tiny ass tot to do your dirty work. man the fuck up and do it yourself.
"enough balls"
YALL NIGGAS ARE BIRDS ON HERE I SWEAR ALL YAH SOME HOMOS WISHING A NIGGGA PRISION DONT BURN DIPSET CDS IN HARLEM IS THE LESSON YAH SHOULD OF LEARNED
ALL BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER.
ok, here's what I cosigned. If a kid is swingin at u wit any kind of weapon. I would shoot him, especially if hes swingin it at my face with a sharp object den I just kill em but if hes sellin bootlegs WTF. shit happens in da game, bootlegs get sold everywhere, u minus well wack millions of people cuz there is a shitload of bootleg CD hustlers out there. However, why should he care bout bootleg CDs? cuz hes a damn muslcle of dipset? N lettin a kid handle your own dirty work is even more fuckin stupid, makes ya look pussy n dat u can't handle ya own shit.
I COOLED OFF AND THOUGH ABOUT IT DAMN.....FIRST OF ALL R.I.P TO Phoenix Garrett MAYBE HE WAS TRYING TO EAT AND DEFEND HIMSELF, AFTER ALL ITS A DOG EAT DOG WORLD, THIS SHIT IS SAD BUT IT HAPPENS, THEY SHOULDVE CAME AT HIM WITH A JOB OPPORTUNITY BUT SHIT I DONT KNOW.
Yea, thats a good point. R.I.P
thats fakked... over bootleggin cd's? smh
Dipset Dipset
Over CDs??? he couldnt be making that much of the bootlegs and a beating would of been good enough. you had a child killed over CDs thats fucking evil if thats how u feel about little shit like that yo ass needs to get blown off!
niggas get laid out every day for all types of reasons, the fucked up part is they got at lil homie for getting his hustle on {bootleg cd's ? you shot a lil nigga for bootleg cd's. wtf? }
dey wouldnt of killed him if he didnt slash him he had da heart 2 go against a whole crew but it got him killed rip
the bad part is really not that they killed the dude becuase of the cds..(even tho thats fucked)
the terrible part is that they had a 13 year old little boy kill that kid...
They creating fuckin MONSTERS out here..
I know murder happens everyday, and people get shot every day, but to be 13 and taking other people's lives--now thats really fuckin insane to me...
Let me think? What was I doing @ 13? Hmm?? NOT PLAYING THE FUCKIN GRIM REAPER I KNOW THAT MUCH!
Man people will do ANYTHING to be "DOWN"...
MONEY IS THE ROOT...
Kids Killin Kids...
Real talk... at 13 i was chasing the fuck out of a basketball.
Ignorant ass grown folks fucking up the youth... smh
Word skeaze.
This shit is sad.
This lil boy was 15. Thats like freshmen in high school. This little nigga might not have even had his first piece of pussy yet and he's out there in the streets trying to make some change. *LEGALLY* without sellin dope, And the lil dude looses his life.
Im not pointing my finger at the man in the picture but Im definitely putting my hands together for the child that was murdered.
Yeah that's fucked up. Simple ass niggas. That's what's wrong with us now. We put more energy into destroying each as opposed to helping each other. He mad cause he was a grown ass man and a kid didn't back down from him. I can understand bitch as Zoo was angry but at the same time it didn't have to be handled like that. He could have been like yo man I don't appreciate you cutting into our profits. Maybe he could have just bought the bootlegs from him. I'm sure if he would have took them back to whoever running dipset now they would have broke him off a couple dollars. Big ups to Pheonix. RIP lil homie.
To every ignorant ass nigga on here sayin lil man got what he deserved fro defendin himself against a 32 year old man, you're just as bad as Zoo. If I was 15 and some big grown ass nigga tried to harm me i would have defended myself as well. And what I'd like to know is how you consider bootleggin DipSet takin off their plate?? They only drop mixtapes!! He got killed for bootleggin a bootleg. At best, dude shoulda got out his car BY HIMSELF and took dude's shit from him and tossed him a couple bucks. Shit woulda been over with. Now not only does hip hop look like a monstrosity but so do black people in general. Fuck DipSet, fuck Zoo.
i agree, the average teenager just aint fucking wit a grown man on that. any person up here no matter how big, tough or old would pull a aweapon if they had one if they were outnumbered, oh unlss ya fuckin name is jet li. dat nigga deserves whatever comes his way gettin a FUCKING 13 year old to do his fuckin dirty work. fuck that nigga.
i hear you petey
Yeah He's a tough guy.
Right.
Where was he when Tru Life got his hands on Jim Jones' chain. Or...when Dipset was running around the Rucker.
Shit like this pisses me off.
Peace.
they probably was scared tru life would kill em or something, after all tru is a grown ass man.
i hate when older muthafuckas take younger ppl like teens under der wing i see it all the time on my block and they turn em into killers and fuck up there life's.. thats not bein a real man... takin advantage of young kids... and y is dis nigga beefin wit a lil child that 15 and he 32 dam he old enough to be his daddy... he is ah bitch point blank i hope he gets fucked and turned out in jail and get like over 20 years of jail time.. str8 up bull shit burns me up