BREAKING NEWS: MAN WANTED FOR ALLEGEDLY KILLING TORONTO RAPPER DON KARTEL CAUGHT BY POLICE. FANBASE OVERJOYED!

August 3, 2011

Mississauga – Peel Regional Police homicide detectives have charged a wanted suspect with First Degree Murder in the shooting death of Donald Richard GRANT.

On Sunday, November 7, 2010, at approximately 9:34 p.m., Peel Regional Police responded to a call on Ambler Drive in Mississauga for a victim who had been shot. Shortly after arriving, officers discoveredDonald Richard GRANT, a 27 year-old male from Toronto, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to a local hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.

A Canada-wide warrant for First Degree Murder was issued for the arrest of Jerome DERBY, a 21 year-old male from Toronto. With information provided by the public, and the assistance of the Hamilton Police Service, investigators were able to locate and arrest the suspect in Hamilton. On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, investigators arrested and charged Jerome DERBY, a 21 year-old man from Toronto, with First Degree Murder.

DERBY was held overnight for a Bail hearing and will be appearing at the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton on August 3, 2011.

Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to contact the Homicide Bureau at (905) 453-2121, ext. 3205. Information may also be left anonymously by calling Peel Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), or by visiting their website at www.peelcrimestoppers.ca. For media inquiries, please contact the on-duty Media Relations Officer at (905) 453-2121, ext. 4027.

Jerome Derby was asked to turn himself in several times by myself and he ignored it. Now he was hiding in a remote area of Hamilton, Ontario and nabbed. Facebook fans are posting messages of joy all over Don's personal page. Above are the tweets that the some think may have to do with this investigation. Clearly Donald was telling someone he was not afraid of their gun. A tweet that caused Canada's TIME-like weekly magazine Macleans to do a tribute to him.

DON KARTEL'S ALLEGED MURDERER IS WANTED.

A Canada-wide first-degree murder warrant was issued for a Toronto man wanted in the shooting of a local Toronto rapper DON KARTEL outside a Mississauga hotel. Peel Regional Police named Jerome Derby, 20, of Toronto in connection with the fatal attack last Sunday on Donald Grant, 27, outside a Holiday In Express hotel on Ambler Rd. around 9:30 p.m.

If u have seen Jerome, do not APPROACH him. Pls call Peel Police Homicide(905) 453-3311 ext 3205 and ask for the HOMICIDE officer on duty or Crimestoppers @1-800-222-TIPS or 222TIPS.com.

BREAKING NEWS: TRAGEDY AS TORONTO RAPPER DON KARTEL IS GUNNED DOWN IN AIRPORT HOTEL LAST NITE!

Aspiring Rapper Don Kartel real name "Donald R. Grant" was MURDERED last night in a Toronto airport hotel. Police were called to the Holiday Inn Express near Pearson Hotel last night for reports of a man shot to death. He had no vital signs. It is NOT a good day today in the Toronto music world. Many artists here are striving so hard to make it while others are merely a joke attacking others music. Don was talented, had his game together and worked hard. Several media outlets called me today. However it goes, this is the 4th rapper murdered in Toronto this year and I knew three out of the four. It is a senseless murder and makes NO sense! It cannot continue. Toronto listen!!!!!!!! Leave the guns alone, let us work it out!! AND WE CAN DO IT WITHOUT A GUN!

One of his last tweets read "I have no respect for pistols." He never supported guns!

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Kartel is a Trinidad and Tobago based, Canadian born rapper. No stranger to the game, his affiliations span worldwide from the Caribbean to North America. He has been featured on a series of mixtapes and DVD's- Canadian, American and Trinidadian. Currently a member of Pro Records ( a Trinidadian based label), he is still deemed as an underground artist. Proclaimed the King Of 868, 2009 seems to be the most major year yet for The Don. In addition, he's also a law student with a Trinidadian Institution, hoping to graduate in 2011. Law he says, has also been something of interest to him, and studying such would do no harm to moulding him as an individual.

It's an area African Americans should be more aware of, because often enough our rights are infringed on a daily basis by those in positions of power. He was seen featured on Caught Magazine ( an Atlanta Based magazine) on the Dec' 08 issue, complete with interviews, photographs etc. For the short time spent in Trinidad thus far, he has already graced the stage on virtually every local club, and receives steady rotation on local airwaves.

The most recent release "Kartelevision- Stay Tuned" is Kartel's fourth mixtape thus far. It has received good responses from www.datpiff.com (online d/load site) and on the streets of Port Of Spain, Trinidad and Toronto, Canada. It features production from industry icons such as St. Kittz, Flipo, Neo Tempus amongst others. In terms of collaborations, it features a combination of Trinidad and Toronto's talents with artists including Kash Diggity, Mason Payne, Simplex, Bigg Lexx and upcoming local vocalist Kelly.

Pro Records was recently awarded Best Hip Hop Group for the year 2008 and Best Video for the year 2008 ( Simplex- 30 MILL- which was ranked 1 on Synergy TV's countdown for 5 consecutive weeks). Pro Records can thereby be deemed, the most renowned group in the Caribbean and soon to be world.

Source: T-Dot Wire

REST IN PEACE TO OUR TORONTO RAPPERS

Yung Mecca (Ludlow Gillespie)
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/05/31/14201426.html

Splitz aka Codeine (Chris Tsilombo)
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/07/23/14801861.html

Philly Blunts (Andrew Dowden)
http://new.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/08/02/1490211