Killer Of T.I.'s Childhood Pal Sentenced To 66 Years

by Jokesta on December 24th, 2008

The man found guilty of murdering T.I.'s close friend and assistant, Philant Johnson has been sentenced to 66-years in prison.

http://media.defsounds.com/uploads/assets/1282/1300/8701/asset.jpgAccording to the Associated Press, Hosea Thomas, who was also found guilty of felonious assault and illegal possession of a firearm after a felony conviction, will not be up for parole until 2074.

Last month, T.I. delivered an emotional testimony about the 2006 incident in which Johnson was killed.

The incident reportedly started with a fight at a Roselawn club where T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, performed.

After the fight spilled onto the streets, prosecutors say Thomas and his brother, Padron Thomas, started shooting at the van in which T.I. and his entourage were riding.

When the gun battle ended at the Seymour Avenue exit, Johnson was dead and four others in the vehicle were hurt.

A trial date for Padron, Thoma's brother, has not yet been set.

 
 
 
 

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begood2me6 months ago
T.I. Did the right thing call it snitchin he got justice if i killed your best friend wouldn’t u want 2 kno who did it? T.I. U A real nigga
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dagod6 months ago
I’m surprised dude only got 66 years for homicide. And he was charged with felonious assault and illegal possession of a firearm. It seems like that dude was snitching too. How else would you not get life for that??
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xxalbertoxx6 months ago
as far as im concerned 66 years is life
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visa16 months ago
i Aint sayin wat t.i did was wrong but how u gna rap bout u is a G And then when sumthing goes wrong you decide to rat on another nigga
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dwnfrmday16 months ago
he did know who did it nigga, the niggas they was fightin in the club. Fuck that gotta do with anything?
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charismatic6 months ago
66 years… GOOD… fuck that… mufuckas talkin bout Stop Snitchin… man, mufuckas need to STOP SHOOTINREAL TALK.
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blackshin0bi6 months ago
amen char
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413josh6 months ago
@visa1

if someone murdered one of your family members, and the murderer was standing right next to you, wouldnt you tell a cop “hey!! he shot my cousin!!! it was him!!!”

be realistic….snitching is one thing, but getting justice for someone is another
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mosreal4206 months ago
snitchin is livin on the block n tellin the cops where all the drugs r stashed n who is sellin them. if someone shoots ur boy u tell the fuckin police especially if ur famous
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mosreal4206 months ago
listen faggots.

im from stop snitchin baltimore n even all them said there is a huge diffrence between snitchin n justice. if u kill an innocent person or a child or somethin u cant expect someone not to go to the cops.
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snyde6 months ago
That dude is right where he belongs right now…

Fuck guns and all this murdering bullshit…why cant people just live life the way it is supposed to be lived

Stop the violence…
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valente6 months ago
damn 2074.. dats what it do. shit i heard different stories ova what went down, but each story i heard wuz still ova pety bullshit. cats wit 2much pride thinkin dey gotta prove shit. now homie gon have 2sit behind bars and prove sumthin der. im from da Nati wher da shit happen but wuznt der wen it popped off but people alwayz talk and niggaz wuz braggin like dat shit wuz live. most cats jus need 2grow up. big up 2 TI and his muzik. STOP THE VIOLENCE like homeboy above said.
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supaman6 months ago
Word…as much as justice might have been served…on what terms though? TI did this to save himself…in a way he shamin his boy…if someone killed my mans I wouldnt wait til I fuck up to do the right thing…kinda selfish though. But yea the main objective been reached…so at least justice been served…no one said it had to be perfect.
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valente6 months ago
yeah i feel brah
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screamlox6 months ago
G’d up i mean its not practical to kill the dude back so let em get fucked in jail cuz you knpo TIP got mad niggas reppin him in the cage
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southeastcoast6 months ago
I got fam in the Nati that shit is live yo lol but ayo 2074? Gotdam!!……
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yb4life6 months ago
2074 dat is basically life and justice was served i dont think ti is a snich for what he did he jus really wanted justice for his friend who wudnt
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lolocoke66 months ago
yea NO ONE would want ur friends killer to get away. but if u claiming ur a gangsta, snitchen is NOT allowed, thats just code. i know people who got their families killed and dont snitch, just cuz thats the life they chose..and if u cant handle it, dont claim ur a gangsta. But then again, i think TI grew outa that, so i cant hate on him…it was just a lil too late for him to learn tho.
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geminijunebaby6 months ago
first off dont know nobody in tha hood honor that fucking no snitching code cause half these niggaz out here alwayz telling if they ass is on the line and also if i was in ti shoes i would let that nigga rot in a fuckin cell cause why kill him thats the easy way out why put this nigga soul at peace while u sitting in a cell for life getting sick and miserable from thoughts of your best friend that he killt that shit would drive you insane til tha point u wanna die then on top of that ti got kids and they dont need to be visitig there farther in the pen all cause he chose to kill that nigga so if u ask me that was the only way he could get him back for killing his best friend!!
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chunk6 months ago
Bury dat bitch unda da jail…. & STFU wit dat snitchin shyt yall be tawkin, THE KING did da right thang
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standupguy6 months ago
right thing?
He got caught preparing to go to war, Feds had him, the local authorities suddenly get the shooters (coincedently days before TI gets his plea deal), they called in a favor from the feds to have TI testify at the trial on behalf of the prosecution as a part of his deal (along with community service, those crimestoppers ads, payoffs and possibly more snitching) TI says “Ok but I aint pointin out the nigga or nothin, I’ll just say what happened that day”(Which he convices himself isnt snitching but is still snitching cuz without witnesses to paint the picture of what happened and how the events took place they dont got much to stand on without physical evidence an they aint never mention no gun or fingerprints so for all we know TI’s testimony was HUGE for the prosecution) and here we are.
Little somethin from your uncle Standup for christmas kids. Game and the way things work 101
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avalanchesound6 months ago
TI is a snitch and his hood pass in Cincinnati is revoke, all yall nigers sound like snitches taking up for that hoe ass niger, If TI came to your city and said Fuck your city and throw money on nigers like they are hoes yall would of did the same thing, Fuck TI and he better dont come to Cincinnati or Jamaica because we dont fuck with snitches and for the record that the wrong person.
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wuzzpoppinfam6 months ago
snitching is not cool this nigga pure pussy 2 me
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baypimp866 months ago
Straight up snitch…. this is why i do my dirt upon my lonely cuz all you niggas is supporting this faggot ass nigga snitchin i dont understand how muthafuckas try and act like they hard and from the street or wat ever they think and dont kno the number one rule, “dont snitch” , snitches get stitches you faggots
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avalanchesound6 months ago
What kind of bull shit this how come yall trash my comment because am telling the fans what going on. If a person talk like a killer he should act like a killer, T I cause his niger to get body, every where he go he in consist beef with people, he a trouble make and I hope he learn from this incident, But in my book he a snitch ama still play his music because he make great music but on some real shit he a snitch.
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joovyxl6 months ago
it wasnt his fault his boi got killed
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keboquick6 months ago
what he did wa sto justice for his friend, this not the times of the WILD, WILD,WEST where you just call a nigger out and shot him get on yor horse and ride away. Snichting he did the only thing he could do, he could have chose to go to jail himself. Know what the hell would that have sovled. use yop\ur damn brains and not your nuts, trying to prove your a man.
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blackshin0bi6 months ago
on some “real shit”??? more like on some ignorant nigger shit… all you fags with this no stitching shit are some blockhead ass bitches. yea, real… real stupid. someone has got to take steps in the right direction to help black people, and apparently it won’t be yall. yall niggaz got no futures, whats the last contribution to society that any gang or gangsta has made? act hard, sell drugs, fight, kill each other over nothing, and you think that shit is cool..? there’s nothing admirable about being a gangsta. if that’s all you know then i feel sorry for you, but you always have a choice. it’s practically 2009, yet some of yall are just living to die… grow the fuck up.
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joovyxl6 months ago
black ma nigga i completely agree wit u. lookin at all these niggas comments just astonished me, its this kind of mentality that stops niggas from makin progress. niggas is still ignorant and dumb as fuck, and i think a lot of niggas here hav lost perspective of all this gangsta shit.


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joovyxl6 months ago
i dont giv a shit wat niggas say but T.I. did rite in my eyes. aint nothin wrong with tryin to put the nigga who killed ur man in prison, thats just justice bein served…..

i swear niggas need to real up if u know wat i mean, this isnt the 80s & 90s when cops was always beatin down niggas and shit all the time, we are passed that now. y wud u want to protect the killer of ur friend ?
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prodigy266 months ago
Joovy I’m in agreement with ya brah, looking at these fuckin clowns and the snitching comments got me so heated I wanted to respond to each on of them. if my best friend got shot and killed best believe i’m finding out who did it and gettin his ass put behind bars. All these fuck dudes talking bout snitching they like 10 year olds who follow the crowd, dont know why but they doin it. You could tell that child “its cool to jum off a bridge” and theyd do it. At what cost do these fools stop acting hard about so called “snitching”. What would you rather T.I. have done go pop the dude and he land in jail….then yall faggots would be onb here talking bout he stupid and shit…get ya mind right and think bout the dumb shit you say before you post it.
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joovyxl6 months ago
^real talk
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dwnfrmday16 months ago
Dummy, fuck you think he was buying them guns for?? Yall niggas are the ones who sound ignorant to me. Alot of niggas who tlk all this no snitchin shit and are just following the bandwagon true. But No Snitching, has everything to do with being a man. Taking responsibility for YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
This doesnt mean that if you just walking down the street and someone out of the clear blue just robs you and pops you or your man for no reason that you dont send him to jail.
But if YOU CHOOSE to involve yourself in a gangster lifestyle, and YOU CHOOSE to make records consistantly stating how YOU’D pop a nigga and body a nigga and you a G etc. and YOU CHOOSE to go to other peoples hometowns and flaunt your wealth instead of being humble, and YOU CHOOSE to get involved in brawls and club fights instead of leaving leaving at the first sign of drama, then YOU accept the role YOU and your best friend (if he conducts himself in the same manner as you) had in the consequenses.
This goes for people who CHOOSE to hustle and get caught and decide to snitch to get a lesser sentence
People who CHOOSE to rob or steal and those who CHOOSE to kill and decide they dont wanna accept full responsibilty and bring others down to lighten thier sentence or get off completly.
You cannot CHOOSE to be a gangster when everything is going good and then swtch up when there is a consequense to YOUR CHOICE to lead a gangster lifestyle. BE A MAN, STICK IT OUT IT WAS YOUR DECSISION FROM THE JUMP.
That is what no snitching is truly about and if you cant respect that your whole perspective is wack.
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outtaspace6 months ago
Dude got what he deserved
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evile6 months ago
Lmao 66?…I gues hel just b sme typa old age advisor 4 da yunga generation of den(our grand kids)
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dboi076 months ago
There u happy cliff!!! dat man under the jail!!! You bet not rap about fight’n,guns, or beef wit no body snitch’n ass nigga!!! And y’all said rick Ross ah cop;0(
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puffpiffsiplean6 months ago
T.I a real nigga. What the fuck do all you people think he was buying a mothafuckin ARSENAL of automatic weapons? Too smoke L’s and hold and take pictures with? No, he was going to go to a WAR with the dudes that killed his man. That dude was fam to Tip. If TI aint get knocked on that gun pickup, he would be in jail for the rest of his life/death penalty for some murder real shit.
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puffpiffsiplean6 months ago
god was watchin over dat boy for the FED’s to knock him on that pickup that day…for reel
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thelegendary6 months ago
Violence is tearing our society apart. Nah fuck that violence is tearing the whole world apart. The United States is seen as a violent country from developing countries. I tip my hat off to the soldiers in Iraq for serving their nation. This whole weapons of mass destruction shit was all a scapegoat. We are truly in there because we rely on foreign petrolium. The money for taxes is being spent on stuff that we do not necessarily need. We are spending money on military advances when we really do not need it. We already have the top military in all of the world. We could be spending the money to help places that were damaged by natural disasters. It seemed like we had more people in the entertainment business help out with Katrina more than we had politicians. I am pro banning firearms. We would be a much peaceful nation. Every day on the news there is another homicide occuring somewhere. Just imagine how much the numbers in robbery would go down. No one is stupid enough to just bust in a place without some sort of weapon. Crime rate will definately go down.
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thelegendary6 months ago
As far as the TI situation goes; I think he did the right thing. If he did not speak up he would most likely end up ruining his own life. Lets be honest the judge of the TI case was very leniant due to the fact that he is an entertainer. If he were to go back to court for murder do you honestly think the judge would even consider giving him a break? Normally I am against “snitching”, but in this particular case he did the right thing.
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teamnati6 months ago
I’m from the Nati I no what happened and that was some pre madonna atlanta niggas who think there gangsta came to where real Niggas live. They got into da ritz and was throwin money at people didn’t wanna let the locals perform or get in vip he was actin like some kind of girl like cincinnati aint good enough And shit got handled. Now its messed up that somebody lost a life but you live by da gun die by da gun T.i and his niggas wutn saints they started dat Shit. And i lost all respect for Tip he is one of the toughtest most gangsterous hardest rappers out there but run with the cops when shit gets bad you bitch Nigga. he showed his true colors and i bet ITs loui V print you fag Nigga. We live by there Omerta round here! and I don’t mean to sound ignorant but it is what it is
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blackshin0bi6 months ago
What is a real nigga?
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screwfacejames6 months ago
T.I.=C.I.(criminal informant)

G blocker’s gonna read dis comment and start cryin like a li’bitch afta he gets up off his knees from suckin T.I.‘s dick. G Blocker/cum swapper is T.I.’s #1 stan!
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puffpiffsiplean6 months ago
ayo any of you mothafuckas sayin shit this is stupid as hell. read what the fuck i wrote above. this mothafucka was about to go to WAR (NOT TO MENTION THIS MAN HAS MONEY TO PUT ON ANYONES HEAD) but this mothafucka was so pist that those boys had clapped his main man that HE HIMSELF was ready for some serious revenge. clearly it wasnt this dudes time to be in jail or on death row. his attitude has done a 360% change, but thats because he was almost forced to and he realizes how real God is now. and not 1 of you mothafuckas DARE call me a “TI STAN” due to the fact i dont even listen to this mans music in my life ALOT ALOT althought I have bumped many of his tracks and I vibe with him very easily. He aint fuckin snitchin on NO ONE, the whole system took into consideration that #1. This man is a looked up to a celebrity RAPPER, “people will listen to him when he talks about guns to kids” lmao. #2. He made a testimony against this dude that merked his boy (WHICH HE WAS GOING TO DO EITHER WAY, BUT HE WAS ACTUALLY GONNA MURDER THEM) and #3. This man is going to be doing anti-gun and violence Ads for the rest of his life. All sorts of community service. Do you people even know what snitching is? Snitching is when you get busted, cops say they will lessen your charges/drop them if you give up your mans, and you do. Was anyone else arrested in TI’s gun case? Nope.
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thelegendary6 months ago
Actually no. Snitching is telling someone information about anything. it dont matter if you get busted or not.
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hansumjay6 months ago
A 360 degree change means that you think exactly the same way as you started nigga.
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screwfacejames6 months ago
Puffpiffsiplean/suckdicksipseman is T.I.‘s #2 stan! There u go, I didn’t call u his #1 stan, dat award goes 2 g blocker/cum swapper.
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hansumjay6 months ago
He knew the info 2 years ago and only told to do less time. That’s snitching point blank.
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kingjames2066 months ago
a man get 66 years for killin a rapper assistant
wen my lil ppls got killed from being shoot in da head from tha back tha guy only got 12 years an he only 17 years old wen he get out he be 30 he still have time 2 see life agin thats crazy u gotta have fame for justice….
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trapmoneyballa6 months ago
Fuck wat you all talkin you cant live in TI shoes and dont know what the fuck goin on in his life, you know he once said to his haters “ITS MIND OVE MATTER, I DONT MIND, CAUSE YOU DONT MATTER”. Fuck you if you call him a snitch. You dont know wats the whole story and that shit may not even be the truth
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trapmoneyballa6 months ago
ANOTHER THING SOME OF YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO SOME OF HIS TRACKS THATS REAL SHIT WHAT HE SPEAKS AND HE WILL TELL THE REASON HE HAD THE GUNS AND WHEN HE GET BACK IN STUDIO HE MAY TELL WHAT WENT DOWN IN THE PIN, NOW THATS REAL SHIT FA BITCHES
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ravenh206 months ago
Fuck dat snitches get stitches at the end of the day If u talk that tuff guy shit then be about it……………Round here they take a life we take 5 more right back! I know people gone say violence is not the way but in this society today we livin wit people wit no morals of conduct So who’s 2 say the next time they shoot up T.I’s van it wont be him laying dead next time! (God forbid but it’s reality)
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blackshin0bi6 months ago
you’re proud of the ignorant shit you say, that’s what’s mindblowing. “They take a life, we take 5 back” what a disgrace… and you wanna talk about morals of conduct. apparently you lack in that department so don’t speak on anyone else.
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babygirlale866 months ago
That’s his best friend…that’s not snitching..if someone killed a loved one you wud want to kno who did or take shit into ur own hands..my respect to T.I
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babygirlale866 months ago
That’s his best friend…that’s not snitching..if someone killed a loved one you wud want to kno who did or take shit into ur own hands..my respect to T.I
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