More Details Surface in Busta Rhymes Video Shooting

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Detectives believe Busta Rhymes was standing next to his bodyguard and saw all when a gunman opened fire outside a Brooklyn video shoot - killing the hired muscle, sources said yesterday.

Busta apparently was trying to play peacemaker between Tony Yayo's and Swizz Beatz' camps moments before the bullets started flying, killing 29-year-old Israel Ramirez, who fell at his boss' feet, police sources said. Now cops want to reinterview the 33-year-old rapper, whose real name is Trevor Smith.

"We believe Busta Rhymes may have been on the street when the shooting took place," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said yesterday.

Ramirez's wife, Amelin Fernandez, told the Daily News that Rhymes described the shooting to her during a condolence call.

She said Busta Rhymes told her he was flanked by Ramirez and another bodyguard, and that the shooter was aiming at someone behind the trio.

"It has nothing to do with you, just get out of the way!" the gunman told Ramirez just before opening fire, Fernandez, 26, said Rhymes told her.


In the hours after the shooting, Rhymes told cops he was inside the Greenpoint film studio when the gunfire erupted, sources said.

But now detectives want to question him about accounts placing him smack in the middle of the bloodshed - hoping he'll help them crack the case.

They also want to talk to Tony Yayo and other members of G-Unit. Investigators believe the gunman may have taken off in Yayo's car, sources said.


Tony Yayo and other G-Unit members started insulting Busta Rhymes' producer, Swizz Beatz, who also produces for Cassidy (one of 50 Cent's rivals).

Studio security told the men to take their shouting outside, sparking one enraged self-proclaimed ex-con to declare, "Who the f--k are you to tell me to be quiet? I'm on parole, mother-----r!"

Busta followed the groups of arguing men outside, trying to calm flaring tempers, police sources said.

But as Rhymes tried to negotiate a peace, eight shots rang out. Ramirez, a father of three, was shot once through the chest.

Yayo sped off in his car with other members of G-Unit, a police source said.

"No one has said Yayo is the shooter, but whoever did the shooting got into Tony Yayo's car with him and drove away," the source said.

In a cruel twist, Ramirez provided security to 50 Cent at one point in his career and considered G-Unit family, his widow said.

"When I met him, 50 Cent was in the hospital and he was the bodyguard at the time. So he had a relationship with the G-Unit family," Fernandez said.

Yayo denied any involvement in the shooting, his lawyer Scott Leemon said yesterday.

"He is not a suspect. They did not indicate he was a target at all," Leemon said, adding he told the Brooklyn district attorney's office Yayo would not voluntarily answer any police questions about the shooting.

That enraged Fernandez, who said that all the big-name rappers at the shoot - including Busta Rhymes - should cooperate fully with cops. Detectives also want to talk with Swizz Beatz, sources said.

"I believe everybody who was at the scene should give their statement," Fernandez said.

Detectives, meanwhile, rejected speculation that Ramirez was targeted because he was guarding Rhymes' jewelry.

"It had nothing to do with jewelry. It had nothing to do with anything other than stupid stuff," a police source said.

Source: The NY Post

[J Bananas]

"We believe Busta Rhymes may have been on the street when the shooting took place," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said yesterday.

YA THINK?

[The Watcher]

damn, gunit turning aftermath into death row

dre needs to drop those clowns like a bad habit

[Sweet & Tender Hooligan]

Sorry i aint got time 2 read the full article but on the jadakiss.com forum, people are sayin Ruff Ryders were shootin at gunit....is that the main point of the article?....Coz if thats true then y is Kartoon of the ruff ryders on spider jokes album cover?.....But from what people been sayin RR dont play......a line on jada's album went somethin like....

"You faggot niggas heard suge knight, RR the only niggas he respectin, ya'll shook right?"

[The Watcher]

apparently the dude shootin jumped into the same car as tony yayo

also i noticed on spiders album cover.. doesnt cartoon's sign say 'rough rider', not 'ruff ryder' ? im guessin he's not down with them anymore if its the same guy