{"id":102239,"date":"2024-09-24T21:03:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T01:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/09\/24\/young-dolph-murder-suspect-carried-out-hit-because-he-needed-money-for-daughters-birthday\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T21:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T01:03:04","slug":"young-dolph-murder-suspect-carried-out-hit-because-he-needed-money-for-daughters-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/09\/24\/young-dolph-murder-suspect-carried-out-hit-because-he-needed-money-for-daughters-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Dolph Murder Suspect Carried Out Hit Because He Needed Money for Daughter\u2019s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOne of the shooters involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/young-dolph\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/young-dolph\/\">Young Dolph<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/young-dolph-dead-1234998793\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/young-dolph-dead-1234998793\/\">murder<\/a> testified on Monday (Sept. 23.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCornelius Smith, who pled guilty to murder, took the stand and implicated himself, Justin Johnson, Hernandez \u201cQuett\u201d Govan and <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/yo-gotti\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/yo-gotti\/\">Yo Gotti<\/a>\u2018s brother Anthony \u201cBig Jook\u201d Mims in the murder of the beloved Memphis rapper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSmith testified that Govan organized the hit and Mims put up $100K if they were able to get the job done. Smith said he and Johnson were supposed to receive $40,000 each and Govan was going to get $20,000. However, Smith testified that he only received $800, but Big Jook paid $50,000 in lawyer fees after he was caught.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe also revealed he and Johnson went ahead with the murder on the same day of his daughter\u2019s birthday. When asked why he choose still go through with it, Smith said he needed the money to make his daughter\u2019s day special. \u201cMan, I was trying to make it right for her,\u201d he said. \u201cI ain\u2019t have no money, I\u2019m trying to get some money that day. So I\u2019m trying to make sure my baby girl have a beautiful birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cornelius Smith, one of Young Dolph&rsquo;s killers, claims he committed the murder on his own daughter&rsquo;s birthday to raise money for her birthday party. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yt2XL1oLaw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Yt2XL1oLaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Episodes (@episodesent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/episodesent\/status\/1838714803650494885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAccording to testimony, Smith and Johnson originally planned on carrying out the murder at an annual Thanksgiving turkey drive Dolph organizes, but they spotted his camo-wrapped Corvette and decided to follow him into the parking lot of Makeda\u2019s Homemade Butter Cookies where they allegedly shot Dolph 22 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhen asked why he decided to tell the truth, Smith said he felt guilty after being arrested and he sobered up, blaming his drug use on the death of his 9-year-old son in 2020. He also said that he wasn\u2019t expecting leniency and was doing talking to clear his conscience. \u201cI\u2019m going to jail anyway. I can get it off my chest,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s my best out to be honest, to be truthful. Why play with these folks? They already know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBig Jook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/funeral-of-yo-gottis-brother-big-jook-draws-heavy-police-presence\/article_10688e7e-c11e-11ee-942e-0763ad38df30.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/funeral-of-yo-gottis-brother-big-jook-draws-heavy-police-presence\/article_10688e7e-c11e-11ee-942e-0763ad38df30.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was murdered<\/a> earlier this year in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tYou can watch the testimony <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SoOYfg9U1Ec&amp;ab_channel=Law%26CrimeTrials\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SoOYfg9U1Ec&amp;ab_channel=Law%26CrimeTrials\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/young-dolph-murder-suspect-needed-money-daughters-birthday-1235783235\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the shooters involved in Young Dolph\u2018s murder testified on Monday (Sept. 23.) Cornelius Smith, who pled guilty to murder, took the stand and implicated himself, Justin Johnson, Hernandez \u201cQuett\u201d Govan and Yo Gotti\u2018s brother Anthony \u201cBig Jook\u201d Mims in the murder of the beloved Memphis rapper. Smith testified that Govan organized the hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}