Cory - my brother - 3 years my Jr.
Daniel - our cousin - 4 years my Jr.
Cory and Daniel were best friends growing up. We were all tight. Parents were drugged out so we were all we had.
I left the hood when I graduated at 15. Cory didn't want to leave with me, so he stayed.
When we got older Cory fell into a bad state of depression so he moved in with Daniel just to have someone around. He felt stuck in the hood where we grew up but never felt comfortable anywhere else. I moved him out with me in whatever state I was in plenty of times, he always went back.
Daniel - got in with some gangs, to feel less of a PUNK @$$ that we all knew him to be. He was frail and couldn't really fight so folks use to pick on him all the time. I stayed fighting Africans for Daniel, which in turn didn't help your cause when your female cousin is fighting your battles for you. he thought banging would remove all of that.
Word got back to Cory and as a cousin he confronted Daniel on some: "You not about to be apart of no gang ish. Your family is your gang little n*gga". They started arguing. (according to the testimony from Daniels girlfriend who lived in the house as well) Daniel took off on Cory and Cory put hands on him. Beat his @$$ in front of his girl, told him he loved him and that he would do this every day if he had to - to get him right, then left.
That night, Cory came back home lit, from a party. Daniel wouldn't open the door. Cory started yelling and getting pissed off, decided to try and come through the back window. He breaks it to get in and starts yelling and Daniel for not opening the door.
Daniel starts talking about how he aint no punk and he from whatever set and he don't let nobody put hands on him. Cory was like "n*gga GTFOH wit that BS, you aint from ish". Daniel pulled out a gun ... pointed it at Cory, daniel's GF crying and said that Cory said "that's what I thought, straight B*tch, can't even throw hands. Only B*tche's pull out weapons on they fam" - From there.... the stories get all F'd up.
According to the GF Daniel was trying to shoot a warning shot up in the air and the bullet "accidentally" hit my brother. But the first confession call Daniel made to my dad was that he was high, drunk and Cory really scared him and he didn't mean to do it.
But at the end of it all, my brother had a bullet in his head and my cousin was on the run the rest of the night. Turned himself in the next day and claimed self defense.
Although Cory lived there as well, the broken window and the fact that he beat him up earlier that day, coupled with the testimony for my cousin from his side of the fam, was enough for that defense to stick.
