Rapper, 16, accused of shooting NYPD cop could make bail from record label deal

EXCLUSIVE: A rising 16-year-old rapper charged with taking pictures a New York Metropolis police officer may very well be freed on a $250,000 bond as quickly as Friday utilizing money from a file label deal, sources advised Fox Information Digital.

Camrin Williams – often known as C Blue – signed with Interscope data just lately and used a part of his advance of a number of hundred thousand {dollars} to rent superstar bondsman Ira Judelson to rearrange his bond, in accordance with a supply conversant in the matter.

Williams’ household paid greater than $15,000 to Judelson to submit all of the bail paperwork to the Bronx district legal professional’s workplace.

However earlier than he may be launched, prosecutors have as much as 72 hours to look at the supply of the funds to make sure that not one of the cash got here from criminal activity associated to his alleged gang ties.

Judelson, a high-profile bondsman, who has labored with numerous celebrities – together with disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein and late rapper DMX, declined to remark. 

Interscope data didn’t instantly return a request for remark.

The up-and-coming musician, whose music movies have garnered over 1 million views on YouTube, was arraigned on one depend every of second diploma assault and firearm possession and three counts of weapons possession in Bronx Legal Court docket Thursday evening.

He allegedly shot NYPD officer Kaseem Pennant within the leg Tuesday in Belmont by chance, in accordance with a prison criticism.

His loaded 9mm pistol discharged whereas tussling with cops after he tried to flee, the criticism says. 

The bullet struck Williams within the groin earlier than exiting his thigh and hitting Pennant, in accordance with his lawyer, Daybreak Florio, who blamed cops for the mishap.

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“My shopper is in ache, he has open wounds,” she mentioned. “They began looking him for no purpose and when he tried to stroll away, they jumped on prime of him. Due to the police officer’s actions, my shopper received shot and so did the police officer.”

The criticism doesn’t say why cops tried to look Williams who was standing on a sidewalk. Pennant is one in all three officers to be shot in New York Metropolis up to now this yr.

Decide Denis Boyle, who has come below hearth prior to now for his low bails, ordered Williams held on $200,000 money over $250,000 bond over the objection of prosecutors who requested that he be held with out bail. 

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Police Benevolent Affiliation President Patrick Lynch blasted Boyle’s choice as ‘horrendous judgement” that’s placing cops and the group in peril. “There may be completely no justification and no excuse for setting bail on this case,” he wrote on Twitter Thursday. “This particular person was beforehand arrested for carrying an unlawful gun. Then he violated his probation, carried one other gun and shot a cop. If he will get one other alternative to go free, he’ll use it to trigger extra violence and mayhem.”

Each Williams and the officer have been handled for minor accidents and launched. 

“We’re extraordinarily lucky that our @NYPD48Pct brother was in a position to depart the hospital the identical evening he was shot whereas maintaining New Yorkers secure. Praying for a speedy restoration,” the police affiliation wrote Tuesday in a tweet, together with a video of the officer leaving the hospital. 

Mayor Eric Adams praised the officers throughout a Tuesday evening press convention. 

“I wish to commend our NYPD officers for taking an unlawful gun and a violent prison off the streets within the Bronx tonight,” he mentioned. “Our officer is alive and can make a restoration. We’re grateful. However we’re additionally pissed off that this shooter and weapon have been on the streets within the first place.”

The suspect was on probation on the time of the taking pictures for possessing an unloaded gun on a set when he was 14, sources advised Fox Information Digital.

The Bronx native has been featured within the music movies of rapper Kay Flock, who’s charged with first-degree homicide for allegedly taking pictures useless a 24-year-old Manhattan man.

In an interview with Fusion TV posted to YouTube, Williams talked about his upbringing within the Bronx.

‘It wasn’t too unhealthy for me. I received what I wanted I received what I needed if I needed extra I used to be going to take it,” he mentioned as he puffed on a blunt. 

Earlier than specializing in music, Williams mentioned he needed to be a biochemist.

“I used to be actually into science,” he mentioned.

Williams, who’s being tried as a juvenile offender, is due again in court docket Jan. 24.