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March 13, 2022 – He also joined the Fruit of Islam in the Nation of Islam and worked in its local bakery. But after the death of Elijah Muhammad, he resumed drug use.
That lifestyle extracted a price.
He once found himself “lying face up on a northwest Baltimore sidewalk, five .32-caliber bullets in his gut. … [A] cop bent down to draw a chalk line around his bleeding body,”a 1999 Sun story said. “The officer wouldn’t mind seeing him go. He’d been nothing but trouble, a throwaway junkie.”
