DaBaby Was Aggressor in Fatal Shooting of Jaylin Craig, New Security Video Reveals (Video)
thewrap.comRolling Stone.The fatal November 2018 incident inside a Huntersville Walmart, DaBaby, whose real name is Jonathan Kirk, has always claimed that he was approached by two young men who threatened him with a gun while he was shopping with his then-partner and their children.
Kirk said that he acted in self-defense out of fear for his and his family’s safety. The new footage appears to tell a different story, one of Kirk throwing the first punch.“I feel like they just swept it up under the rug,” Craig’s mother, LaWanda Horsley, told Rolling Stone of the investigation. “[Kirk] knows what he did.
I’m not doing this for no fame or anything, because at the end of the day, Jaylin Craig is gone.”Craig’s best friend, Henry Douglas, who was at the scene at the time, said that Kirk was annoyed when the teens recognized him and suggested they take it outside.
Although Kirk told police that one of the teens first suggested they fight, the security footage shows Kirk sucker-punching Douglas with Craig standing nearby.
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