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Witness: Mike Tyson was on Brooklyn gang's hit list

NEWSDAY by ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO June 24, 2008

http://www.newsday.com/services/newspap ... 0297.story

Members of a Brooklyn gang considered killing boxing champ Mike Tyson but were persuaded not to do so because he was a Muslim, a government witness testified yesterday.

Tyson was on the hit list of the Cash Money Brothers gang because he had allegedly offered to put up $50,000 to avenge the murder of his bodyguard at the hands of gang members, said witness Shelby Henderson.

During testimony yesterday in the racketeering trial of Abubakr Raheem, 38, a reputed member of CMB, Henderson said that he was in a car on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn near a men's shelter when other members of the gang thought they saw Tyson's sport utility vehicle.

But Henderson said that when the idea of killing Tyson came up he told his fellow gang members not to think about it because "Tyson is a Muslim," according to a transcription of his testimony.

Tyson was never harmed and it is unclear if he even knew of the alleged plot.

A week ago, another government witness testified that the former boxing champ had put up $50,000 for the killing of CMB members who are believed to have killed his bodyguard Darryl "Homicide" Baum in June 2000. The witness stated that nothing ever came of the alleged contract.

The Brooklyn federal court trial of Raheem, who is accused of racketeering murders, is expected to go to closing arguments this week.

Tyson may have had the killer instinct in the ring, but he isn't an ACTUAL killer. He was as loony as Salvador Dali but I can't imagine him sanctioning a hit with any seriousness. He himself was from the 'hood, he'd have known what a shitstorm that would have triggered.

I think sadly its in vogue these days to have that 'gangster'
image.

I hear kids these days threatening to put a hit out on one
another, as though it earns them credibility or carries weight.

Then they beat box about it as the beat off.

ISLAM BLOCKED TYSON GANG HIT
By STEFANIE COHEN June 24, 2008

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06242008/ne ... 116942.htm

Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson was saved by religion - literally.

"They were discussing [how] Mike Tyson had to be murdered," gang member Shelby Henderson said yesterday about a conversation in 2000 among members of the vicious Cash Money Brothers.

Henderson, testifying in Brooklyn federal court, said the gang even saw Tyson a few months later and was ready to start shooting. But Henderson said he talked his buddy out of the killing because Tyson was a fellow Muslim.

Henderson revealed Tyson's brush with death as he testified for the prosecution at the murder trial of one of the gang members.

Mike Tyson's like a manta ray at this point. Totally harmless, but so big and mean looking that you want to kill it.